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Dupleix
[ dy-pleks ]
noun
- Jo路seph Fran路莽ois [zhoh-, zef, f, r, ah, n, -, swa], Marquis, 1697鈥1763, French colonial governor of India 1724鈥54.
Dupleix
/ 诲测辫濒蓻办蝉 /
noun
- DupleixJoseph Fran莽ois16971763MFrenchPOLITICS: administrator Marquis Joseph Fran莽ois (蕭oz蓻f fr蓱虄swa). 1697鈥1763, French governor general in India (1742鈥54). His plan to establish a French empire in India was frustrated by Clive
Example Sentences
鈥淏ottega Veneta is the most exposed in our portfolio to Asian customers,鈥 said Kering Chief Financial Officer Jean-Mark Dupleix, adding that the label 鈥渉as been affected by the decrease in tourist flows, and Chinese tourists are particularly impacted.鈥
When characters cross the Seine, for example, moods change; when they walk beneath the overhead M茅tro bridges between S茅gur and Dupleix stations, they enter a neutral zone.
This photograph, taken in 1890, shows Hotel de Ville and the Dupleix monument.
The second chapter closes with an impassioned peroration, wherein the removal of Mr. William Tayler from his post at Patna is likened to the judicial murder of Lally, and the starvation of Dupleix.
In 1746 Fort St David became the British headquarters for the south of India, and Dupleix鈥 attack was successfully repulsed.
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