A tiny Paris on the Coromandel coast

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 29, 1996| Author: Lee Langley | Copyright information

It was the Gallic influences that drove me to this south-east corner of India: I'd heard about Pondicherry's French street names, the policemen who wore gendarme-style kepis and an esplanade that seemingly rivalled the Croisette at Cannes. Pondicherry was not "our" India, not part of the Raj. It was an outpost of another empire, a tiny Paris with palm-trees on the Coromandel coast. Its arcaded squares and fountains were set in a grid of graceful streets laid out by the French after one of the...

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