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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER LIII
19/76

All the territories ceded by the Hindoo princes to Dupleix reverted to their former masters; the two Companies interdicted one another from taking any part in the interior policy of India, and at the same time forbade their agents to accept from the Hindoo princes any charge, honor, or dignity; the most perfect equality was re-established between the possessions and revenues of the two great European nations, rivals in the East as well as in Europe; England gave up some petty forts, some towns of no importance, France ceded the empire of India.

When Godeheu signed the treaty, Trichinopoli was at last on the point of giving in.

Bussy was furious, and would have quitted the Deccan, which he still occupied, but Dupleix constrained him to remain there; he himself embarked for France with his wife and daughter, leaving in India, together with his life's work destroyed in a few days by the poltroonery of his country's government, the fortune he had acquired during his great enterprises, entirely sunk as it was in the service of France; the revenues destined to cover his advances were seized by Godeheu.
France seemed to comprehend what her ministers had not even an idea of; Dupleix's arrival in France was a veritable triumph.

It was by this time known that the reverses which had caused so much talk had been half repaired.

It was by this time guessed how infinite were the resources of that empire of India, so lightly and mean-spiritedly abandoned to the English.


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