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GRAND ST LOUIS. 1629
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:31 pm
by john sefton
GRAND ST LOUIS. French warship. 56 guns. Built in the Netherlands for the French Navy in 1629. In commission until 1652. 1200tn. burthen - French Wartime Issue 1942. 80c.1f 50. 4f. 5f. Issued for the 300th Anniversary of the acquisition of Isle de Bourbon. NC (Woad)
Re: GRAND ST LOUIS. 1629
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 1:31 pm
by FrenchShips
Should be "le Taureau" (the bull) a fleet of 22 gunfires, according French post.
https://www.wikitimbres.fr/public/stamp ... 965-29.pdf
Another source gives also "le Taureau" which called in St Paul bay.
http://enguerrand.gourong.free.fr/ocean ... indien.htm
Same by different french books in Google :
L'île de la Réunion (Hubert-Jacob de Cordemoy, Hippolyte Foucque)
Les Origines de l'île Bourbon (I. Guët)
Re: GRAND ST LOUIS. 1629
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 11:55 pm
by aukepalmhof
REUNION 1942
The correct name of the vessel is SAINT LOUIS in which Jacques de Pronis arrived in Madagascar in 1642, more is given on:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15391
On the stamp of Franch and Reunion issued in 1965 is the Le TAUREAU depict. see: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7548&p=17775&hilit=taureau#p17775