French India (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

French India (French: Inde française) is the designation for the region in the Indian subcontinent that being a part of French Empire between 1769 and 1954, included two French colonies of Madras and Chandernagor and several princely states, such as Mysore and Travancore that under French military protection where the French formally left the local rulers in power despite acting only as figureheads.