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Presentation and chronological account

• > First contacts under the Ancient Regime

  The first French-Omani contacts go back to the 1660’s, when the merchant ships from the Indies Company trading with the Persian Gulf put into (...)

• > The Revolution and the Empire

  However, the French Revolution in Paris set the mutual development of the two countries back. The French were preoccupied with other matters, and (...)

• > The Omani Empire and the Colonial Period

  From 1814 to 1840, France retook a foothold in the Indian Ocean, and relationships were re-established, this time between Muscat and the Bourbon (...)

• > Eclipse and revival

  At the end of the first World War, France is now well established in Djibouti and closes down its consulate in Muscat (1920), transferring its (...)