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Jean-François Hodoul (11 April 1765 – 10 January 1835) was a sea captain, corsair, and later merchant and plantation owner in Île de France (now Mauritius).

Origins

Hodoul was born on 11 April 1765 La Ciotat, Provence. His father, Raymond, was a charcutiere; his mother was Geneviève Cauvin. He left for France's colonies in the Indian Ocean at the age of 24, and arrived at Mauritius in 1789, on board Scipion. (Other sources state that he arrived there on 12 April 1790, the day after his 25th birthday.

He rapidly became a sea captain. By 1791 he was master of Deux Sœurs. Two years later, he was master of the brig Succès. During this period he transported slaves from Africa to the Indian Ocean colonies of Île de France and Île Bourbon (Réunion).

Privateer

In 1793 the French Revolutionary Wars broke out, and with them a battle in the Indian Ocean between Britain and France. In 1794 the British captured him and his brig Olivette when the British entered Mahé, Seychelles, capturing the colony. The now British colony retained Olivette for its government's purposes.

In June 1794 he married the 16-year old Mairie Corantine Olivette Jorre de St Jorre, daughter of a wealthy local merchant, shortly after he had started his privateering adventures.

In 1796 Hodoul went to sea again as an enseigne de vaisseau aboard the privateer Entreprise. Then he sailed aboard Général Pichegru, a recently captured British schooner previously named Hay, that Captain François Legars of Enterprise had given Jacques François Perroud.^[1] Hodoul sailed with Perroud to India. On 17 February 1797 Hodoul arrived at Port Louis with the British vessel Castor, of 150 tons (bm), which Perroud and Général Pichegru had captured in January at Visakhapatnam. She had a cargo of wheat and rice.^[2]

In May Hodoul received his first privateer command, Apollon, of ten guns and six obusiers. He sailed on 7 March with 71 men from Port-Louis for the Malabar Coast.^[2] There he captured the ship Eliza, of three masts and 350 tons (bm), herself a former French vessel. Six days later he rescued seven slaves aboard a British vessel whose crew had abandoned it after a storm.^[3] A few days later, on 17 May, near Masulipatnam, he captured Aydresev, a ship of about 500 tons, sailing under the Maharatta flag. She arrived at Port-Louis on 23 June. The captain of the prize crew, Harel, reported that on 3 May Hodoul had captured a British vessel bound for Tranquebar, then a Danish colony.{{refn|One source reports that on 17 May Hodoul captured Edroussi, a small British vessel. Another source simply states that Hodoul had captured a small English vessel.^[3] It is not clear what this vessel is.|group=Note}}

On 20 May Hodoul was at Koringa, where he captured Macré (or Macoroy, or Macroy).^[3] Her crew escaped in a chaloupe, with Hodoul in pursuit. They landed on a beach and fled inland, abandoning a chest full of pearls.

On 15 September Hodoul captured Bader Bux as she sailed from Moka towards Surat. She turned out to be his most valuable prize as she was carrying 3732 gold ecus, some piastres, 296 gold sequins, and a quantity of pearls. On 30 October, while sailing back to Mauritius, Hodoul captured Laurel, Fuggo, master. Hodoul's crew was so reduced because of the need to deploy prize crews that he put Laurel{{'}}s crew in irons.^[3] On 9 November he captured both Trayalle (Trial) and Harrington.^[3] The schooner Harrington arrived at Port Louis on 21 December. The captain of the prize crew was Nicholas Montalent.^[2]

Hodoul and Apollon returned to Port Louis on 7 January 1798. He had with him 57 prisoners and 50-60,000 piastres from the Rey, which he had captured off Bengal and then abandoned. On 18 January Loret (probably Laurel), of 400 tons, which Apollon had also captured off Bengal, too arrived at Port-Louis.^[2]

The total value of the prizes from Hodoul's cruise on Apollon was 703,479,803 francs.

Hodoul sold his half-share in Apollon to the corsair Le Vaillant. Le Vaillant left Mauritius on 22 August 1798 and captured a valuable Portuguese vessel. However, on 10 November (French records), or 24 October (British records), {{HMS|Leopard|1790|6}} captured Apollon off Mombasa and carried her crew to the Comoro Islands.

In June 1799 Marie Corantine Olivette gave birth to a son, Raymond. On 28 November the privateer Général Malartic, Jean-Marie Dutertre, master, captured the British vessel Surprise near Madras.{{refn|Surprize was a galley belonging to the Nawab of Arcot.^[4]|group=Note}} He took Surprize{{'}}s crew to the Seychelles from where Hodoul, in Success, took them to Mauritius; they arrived on 28 January 1800.

Hodoul next purchased Uni, a large vessel armed with eighteen 4-pounder and four 9-pounder guns. She had come from Nantes in 1798 and already had two cruises to her credit, both under the command of François-Thomas Le Même. Hodoul sailed on 15 May 1800 with a crew of 220 men. He reached the Seychelles on the 28th.^[3] Off Ste. Anne he captured the British privateer Henriette (or Harriot, from Capetown), of eight guns under the command of Captain White. On 11 July Hodoul captured Helen, which was carrying 80,000 piastres.^[3] Then on 4 August he captured Friendship. However, on 5 August {{HMS|Arrogant|1761|6}} captured Uni and Hodoul after a chase during which Hodoul had almost all of Uni{{'}}s guns thrown overboard in an attempt to lighten her to gain speed. Captain Edward O. Osborne, of Arrogant, reported that Uni had left Mauritius with 250 men, and that she had 216 on board when captured, the rest being away on prizes.^[15]

When the British first sighted Uni she had been in company with another ship, and a brig. Osborne set out after the ship, which turned out to be Friendship, and which he recaptured early that night. The brig escaped; she was the Bee, from Madras sailing to Masulipatnam. Hodoul had captured both Friendship and Bee that morning.^[5]

The British took their prizes to Madras. From there the British transferred Hodoul to Fort William (Calcutta). Hodoul remained a prisoner until the Treaty of Amiens (1802), ended hostilities.

After his release Hodoul settled on Mahe Island of the Seychelles. Here he became a wealthy businessman and plantation owner in the Seychelles, where he introduced cacao cultivation. He was particularly successful in the sugar and rum industries, and in cotton and coffee growing. He did not fully leave the sea as he built and owned several small ships that traded between the Seychelles and Mauritius.

Hodoul then settled definitely in Seychelles he was much involved in agriculture and naval constructions. He built the petit Port and Le Grand Chantier at Mahé. As a planter he successfully introduced cacao, and made his fortune with his sugar and rum industry, cotton and coffee plantations. He was a man of even-handedness and very kind to his slaves especially to his daughters and sons in law.

At his wife's behest, Hodoul employed the exiled Jacobin architect Antoine Jean-Baptise Le Franc to build Château Mammelles, which is now the oldest building in the Seychelles. The British Authorities later used Hodoul's second large house, Ma Constance, to house the exiled Sultan of Perak.{{refn|The British exiled H.M Sultan 'Abdu'llah Muhammad Shah II (1874 - 1877), to the Seychelles in 1877 after he was implicated in the murder in 1774 of J W W Burch, the British Resident at Perak.|group=Note}}

Fate

Hodoul died at Mahé on 10 January 1835. His tomb bears the inscription "Il fut juste".

Legacy

Today in the harbor of Victoria, there is a small islet named Hodoul Island in his honor. Legend has it that Hodoul's treasure is buried on Silhouette Island, northwest of Mahé.^[6]

Notes, citations, and references

1. ^Piat (2007), p.65.
2. ^¹²³⁴Piat (2007), p. 92.
3. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶Epinay (1890), pp.408-9.
4. ^Malleson (878), p.102.
5. ^¹{{London Gazette|date=24 February 1801|issue=15340|pages=230–231}}
6. ^Silhouette Island (Seychelles)

Origins

Privateer

Fate

Legacy

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