COMPAGNIE DES INDES Proclamation du roi, sur le décret de l’assemblée nationale, du 3 avril, pour la liberté du commerce de l’Inde, au-delà du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Du 2 mai 1790.

Proclamation announcing “that trade in India beyond the Cape of Good Hope is free for all Frenchmen”. It was with this decree that the French East India Company lost its monopoly. It was liquidated by the National Convention in 1793.