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Antoine Crozat, 1st Marquis of Châtel (c. 1655 – 7 June 1738), French founder of an immense fortune, was the first proprietary owner of French Louisiana, from 1712 to 1717. Career [ edit ] Antoine Crozat and his brother Pierre Crozat were born in Toulouse , France, the sons of a wealthy banking family.
Feb 22, 2022 · Antoine Crozat, councilor and financial secretary to Louis XIV (1638–1715), received a fifteen-year commercial monopoly over Louisiana in 1712. Crozat attempted to organize the colonial government of Louisiana according to Canadian standards by dividing military and civil affairs among the three offices of commandant, governor, and ...
Other articles where Antoine Crozat is discussed: Louisiana: Early settlement: …granted, first to French merchant Antoine Crozat in 1712 and then in 1717 to the Scottish businessman John Law, whose Company of the West failed in 1720. When Louisiana became a French crown colony in 1731, its population had grown from fewer than 1,000 to nearly 8,000, including slaves. In…
Antoine Crozat, marquis du Chatel, baptisé le 24 avril 1655 à Toulouse et mort le 7 juin 1738 à Paris, est un financier français. Il est l'acteur français le plus important de la traite négrière , le premier propriétaire de la Louisiane et la première fortune de France à la fin du règne de Louis XIV .
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Jul 6, 2018 · AUGUST 13, 1717: After only five years, a frustrated Antoine Crozat formally relinquishes his 15-year commercial monopoly on Louisiana, having failed to find mineral riches, establish plantations or trade with Spanish Mexico. John Law is intrigued to learn of this exotic-sounding land called Louisiana, and connects it with his economic theories.
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Antoine Crozat. (Sketch by Janis Blair) Antoine Crozat. By 1712, the French colony had a population of about four hundred and was permanently established. In 1712, under a Royal Charter obtained from King Louis XIV of France, Antoine Crozat was given a fifteen-year charter (or franchise) to settle and develop the Louisiana colony.
Nov 21, 2012 · In 1712, Antoine Crozat obtained a charter from the French Crown that granted him various privileges, mainly over commerce, in Louisiana for fifteen years. He had to send two ships each year to the colony with passengers and carrying material for the Crown. He also had each year to send a ship to Africa to buy slaves to sell to the colonists.
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