By Felicia Gottmann
This charts the influence of world exchange on early sleek France targeting Asian textiles. The ban in 1686 ended in great smuggling, illicit retail, and client revolts, but additionally to an attempt via the French management to obtain the expertise for his or her construction, and finally to the 1st victory of the liberal Enlightenment political economy.
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Some of these came directly from India and Persia, but the majority were made in the Middle East imitating Indian techniques. 79 Even though France had established trade relations with the Ottoman Empire since the sixteenth century, it was only in the later seventeenth and especially in the eighteenth century that it became a dominant force in the Levant trade, replacing the Dutch and British dominance which in The French Trade in Asian and Asian-Style Textiles 43 turn had supplanted that of the Venetians earlier.
Pondicherry and the Coromandel Coast’s Textiles Unlike the British East India Company, the French did not have regional presidencies; their headquarters in India was Pondicherry on the Coromandel Coast, seat of the Conseil Supérieur, or Superior Council, the Company’s governing body for all its possessions in India to which the other regional councils were subordinate. 24 With permission from the nawab, more territory and fortifications were added in due course as were factories in the wider region: Karikal to the south and Masulipatam and Yanaon to the north.
65–78 lt). De la Chancelière also included the cheaper and less common saya-sayas, thin and lightcoloured fabrics favoured by the Spanish and Portuguese, lins (also spelt lines in other documents), white and tightly woven silks that could be washed like linens, and pièces de plomb, small damasked satins. 10–20 lt) and, like French and Indian fabrics, but unlike those mentioned before, they came folded rather than rolled. 50 36 Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism Just like their Indian counterparts then, Chinese artisans were able to supply a very wide range of types and qualities and to adapt them to European tastes so as to appeal both to elite and middle-class customers, but since silks were substantially more expensive than cottons, the China trade did not supply much for the popular French market.