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Jules Maurice Curé was born on 3 September 1886. He completed his secondary education at Royal College Curepipe where he was a "Laureate" in 1906, along with his peers Fernand Maingard and E. Osmond Barnard. He travelled to England at the age of 20 to study medicine under scholarship. [5]
Mauritius was later rediscovered and visited by the Portuguese between 1507 and 1513. Mauritius and surrounding islands were known as the Mascarene Islands (Ilhas Mascarenhas) after Pedro Mascarenhas. Portuguese discoveries 1415–1543 in the Reign of D. João III (verde) An official world map by Diogo Ribeiro described "from west to east, the ...
v. t. e. Mauritius gained independence from the United Kingdom on 12 March 1968. The independence process was the culmination of a long struggle involving a number of political parties. Most notably the Mauritius Labour Party (MLP) and the Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD).
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
Biography. Born in Mauritius in 1995, Duvergé became the number one Mauritian YouTube comedian in 2013. Vince Duvergé made his comedy debut in 2011, during the Mauritian comedy festival "Festival du Rire de Komiko" during which he played in the stage play "Complètement Toc-Toc" and also performed his own stand-up comedy segment.
18 August 1885. Bassin Estate, Plaine Wilhems. Died. December 1, 1946. (1946-12-01) (aged 61) Known for. Co-founder of the Mauritius Labour Party. Emmanuel Anquetil (1885-1946) [1][2] was a Mauritian trade unionist, and the second leader of the Mauritius Labour Party.
The economy of Mauritius is a mixed developing economy based on agriculture, exports, financial services, and tourism. [14] Since the 1980s, the government of Mauritius has sought to diversify the country's economy beyond its dependence on just agriculture, particularly sugar production.
Tales from Mauritius is the name of a storybook written by a popular Mauritian author, Ramesh Ramdoyal, and edited by Rodney Phillips. The first edition was published in 1979 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd. [1] The second book in the series is called More Tales from Mauritius, published in 2009, [2] and the third book Further Tales from Mauritius published in 2013.