<P> The First Director of the French East India Company , Deslandes paid 40,000 coins to the Mughal subahdar in 1688 to gain control of the area and build a factory there . But the first Frenchman to possess any subsequent land holding in this area was Du Plessis who bought land of 13 Arpents at Boro Kishanganj , now loacted at North Chandannagar for Taka 401 in the year 1673 - 74 . </P>
<P> The First Director of the French East India Company , Deslandes paid 40,000 coins to the Mughal subahdar in 1688 to gain control of the area and build a factory there . But the first Frenchman to possess any subsequent land holding in this area was Du Plessis who bought land of 13 Arpents at Boro Kishanganj , now loacted at North Chandannagar for Taka 401 in the year 1673 - 74 . </P>
who had established their trading company in chandernagore
who had established their trading company in chandernagore
French East India Company
French East India Company