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384 BUSSY TO 1754. "viif* Machhlipatan. Here he was when the arrival of M. -v— ^ Godeheu at Pondichery, on the 1st August following, 1754. gave him the first intimation of the fatal blow which France herself had dealt to her own struggling children in the East.