Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine

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Benoît Mottet de La Fontaine (4 July 1745 – 30 April 1820) was a French officier de plume and an administrator of French India. He was the uncle of Agathe de Rambaud.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Mottet was born in the château de Compiègne.

Mottet was sent by the French East India Company as commissioner to Chandannagar to revitalize trade after the war.^[1]

Benoît Mottet de la Fontaine was made the king's authorizing commissioner and president of the Superior Council of Pondicherry in 1789.

He died at rue des Capucins, Pondicherry. On his death he was buried in the French cemetery on rue Surcouf in Pondicherry.

References

^ Francis Cyril Antony, Union Territory of Pondicherry, p. 220