Jean Law de Lauriston, Governor of Pondichéry (1765–1766) stated in his "Memoire of 1767" as  "It is from Yanam that we get our best ‘Guinness’ (fine cloth).
 It is possible to have a commerce here worth more than a million livres per year under circumstances more favourable than those in which we are placed now, but always by giving advances much earlier, which we have never been in a position to do.
From this place we also procured teakwood, oils, rice and other grains both for the men as well as for the animals.
A port from commerce, Yanam enjoyed another kind of importance. "
The advantages which may be derived in a time of war from the alliances that we the French may conclude with several Rajas who sooner or later cannot fail to be dissatisfied with the English'."
 Although the English gained an effective control over the Circars, Yanam enabled the French to enter into secret relations with the local chieftains.
 Yanam had some commercial importance".

It was a centre for the production of salt and this salt constituted the major part of the quantity imported by the French into Bengal region.
 It was also an important center of cotton goods and supplied a large part of the return cargo of the French ships visiting India.
 A few French citizens in Yanam were fully occupied by these two kinds of profitable business and they had no interest in political and administrative matters that were left entirely to the chief or commandant.
 Indian residents wanted nothing better than to be left in peace to carry on their trading activities.
Jean Law de Lauriston, Governor of Pondichéry (1765–1766) stated in his "Memoire of 1767" as  "It is from Yanam that we get our best ‘Guinness’ (fine cloth).  It is possible to have a commerce here worth more than a million livres per year under circumstances more favourable than those in which we are placed now, but always by giving advances much earlier, which we have never been in a position to do. From this place we also procured teakwood, oils, rice and other grains both for the men as well as for the animals. A port from commerce, Yanam enjoyed another kind of importance. "The advantages which may be derived in a time of war from the alliances that we the French may conclude with several Rajas who sooner or later cannot fail to be dissatisfied with the English'."  Although the English gained an effective control over the Circars, Yanam enabled the French to enter into secret relations with the local chieftains.  Yanam had some commercial importance".
It was a centre for the production of salt and this salt constituted the major part of the quantity imported by the French into Bengal region.  It was also an important center of cotton goods and supplied a large part of the return cargo of the French ships visiting India.  A few French citizens in Yanam were fully occupied by these two kinds of profitable business and they had no interest in political and administrative matters that were left entirely to the chief or commandant.  Indian residents wanted nothing better than to be left in peace to carry on their trading activities.
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