Dupleix

American  

[dy-pleks] / düˈplɛks /

noun

1. Joseph François Marquis, 1697–1763, French colonial governor of India 1724–54.

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Dupleix British  

/ dyplɛks /

noun

1. Marquis Joseph François (ʒozɛf frɑ̃swa). 1697–1763, French governor general in India (1742–54). His plan to establish a French empire in India was frustrated by Clive

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Example Sentences

He served as gunnery officer on the cruiser Dupleix.

From Time Magazine Archive

Met by the French cruiser Dupleix and a squadron of French destroyers, the ships were inspected for sanitation, then, their ammunition removed, allowed to pass through the channel into Bizerte Lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

PARADIS, sent by Dupleix to relieve Madras, 37:     entered Madras, 38.

From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by Malleson, George Bruce

This policy, of which he was the inventor, was, we shall see, carried to the most extreme length by his successor, M. Dupleix.

From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by Malleson, George Bruce

The Indo-China dream of Jules Ferry might have led to a magnificent empire in the East to compensate for that which Dupleix lost and Napoleon failed to reconquer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various