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After Dutch colonists evacuated Mauritius in 1710, the island remained unoccupied for ten years. The French had a small colony at Bourbon island (Réunion) where a few Frenchmen and Malagasy servants, men and women, lived since 1664. In 1674, survivors of the French colony of Fort Dauphin in Madagascar, attacked by natives, found refuge in Bourbon. The Madagascar venture had ended in dismal…
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