François Caron
Politician
1600 – 1673
Who was François Caron?
François Caron was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia, only one grade below Governor-General. He was later to become Director-General of the French East Indies Company.
He is sometimes considered the first Frenchman to set foot in Japan: he was actually born in Brussels to a family of French Huguenot refugees; but he only became a naturalized citizen of France when he was persuaded by Colbert to become head of the French East Indies Company, which was intended to compete with the Dutch and the English in Asia. He disputes that honour with the French Dominican missionary Guillaume Courtet.
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- Born
- 1600
Brussels - Also known as
- Francois Caron
- Nationality
- France
- Died
- Apr 5, 1673
Portugal
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on July 23, 2013
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