Louis Payen
See also: Payen
Accompanied by an anonymous European " with its ordres" and of seven Malagasy men and three women , Louis Payen was one of the first inhabitants of the Réunion, then called Bourbon.
Originating in Vitry-le-François, established with Madagascar since 1656, it was voluntarily unloaded on this island of the Indian Ocean become again deserted in 1658 or 1663, is several years after the first fallen through installations of some French.
Its experiment bourbonnaise
Author of a Relation of the first voyage of the Company of the Eastern Indies in Isle of Madagascar or Dauphine , Urbain Souchu de Rennefort described the man like " well done, of soft mood and sociable".
However, one knows thanks to the memories of the future founder of Pondichéry François Martin that him and his companion have escaped before 1665 with an attempted murder by their negros, those seeking to obtain them a black woman brought with them. Having failed in their company, they are flee in the High of the island. The six soldiers of passage sent to their cases found only cultures that they had put out of ground and destroyed them. Finally, the Blacks returned on the coast on the promise which they would not be punished.
For the remainder, it seems that the cultures developed by Louis Payen and his companions were prosperous: in 1664, it would have exchanged meat on foot against " oil, brandy, vinegar, pitches and habits" with the English of the " Charles " , a ship in slackening ordered by Jacques Barquer (or Barker).
Its return in Metropolitan France
The arrival with Bourbon of three French ships in 1665 leads finally Louis Payen to undertake a return in Metropolitan France. The February 16th 1666, since Fort-Dauphin, it grants " with the Orders of Roy the sovereignty of the pays" against a right remuneration. The 20, it embarks on board " the Virgin-of-good-Port " bound for France.
Whereas it crosses the Manche, its ship is run by the English. The latter approach its person and concerning its goods. He is imprisoned during one unlimited duration but manages all the same to regain his country of origin in the Marne, where he becomes hermit.
Its posterity
A public lycée of Saint-Paul (where it unloaded) bears his name today.
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