Dictionary of Indian Biography/Courtin, Jacques Ignace
COURTIN, JACQUES IGNACE ( ? - ? )
Son of François Courtin, Chevalier : Chief of the French Factory at Dacca : received for two months the members of the English Factory at Dacca, when it was seized by the Nawab of Dacca, after the capture of Calcutta by the Nawab Surajud-daula, 1756 : and sent them to the English at Fulta, 1756 : he left Dacca, with 35 boats, on June 22, 1757. and wandered about the districts of Rangpur, Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri: received an Embassy from the King of Tibet : fought with the Faujdar of Rangpur : arrived at Murshidabad, March 10, 1758, to surrender to the English : allowed by Clive to go to Chandernagore and Pondicherry : Member of the Supreme Council there : in the capitulation there, Jan. 1761 : went to France, and probably became the Conseiller au Conseil des Indes.