… la plus cosmopolite au monde : Venetians and French invested in the West Indian Company. Florentines had banks in the city in the mid-century, and there were Tuscan shareholders in the East Indian Company. A company of Genoese merchants … du Buat) and in the months of July and August in Brest, on the 28 th of August at Paris. From which last mentioned city the said Nicholas Gottlied Lutcken, as it appears by his books of Correspondance, sett out the 3d of September, and …