High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles French India is a general name for the former French possessions in India (French: tablissements fran ais de l'Inde.) These included Pondich ry (now Puducherry), Karikal and Yanaon (now Ya am) on the Coromandel Coast, Mah on the Malabar Coast, and Chandannagar in Bengal. In addition there were lodges (loges) located at Machilipatnam, Kozhikode and Surat, but they were merely nominal remnants of French...