A white Dodo was once incorrectly thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion.

In 2007 the GDP per capita of Réunion at nominal exchange rates, not at PPP, was 17, 146 euros ( US $ 23, 501 ).

There are no railways in Réunion, with the exception of a short tourist line, which was originally part of a larger rail network.

A few years later in 1841, a simple and efficient artificial hand-pollination method was developed by a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius on Réunion, a method still used today.

Garros was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion, and studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and HEC Paris.

Millions of years ago, the archipelago was created by a combination of the separation of India from Africa as well as undersea volcanoes similar to those from which Mauritius and Réunion were created.

A Ciconia bone found in a rock shelter on the island of Réunion was probably of a bird taken there as food by early settlers ; no known account mentions the presence of storks on the Mascarene Islands.

The smaller queen's crown last worn by Ranavalona III was taken with her into exile, first in Réunion and then later in Algiers, where she eventually died in 1917.

It was then introduced to the Réunion Island in 1764 by Joseph-François Charpentier de Cossigny de Palma.

Réunion itself was dubbed Santa Apolonia after a favorite saint, which suggests that the date of the Portuguese discovery may have been February 9, her saint day.

“ Réunion ” was the name given to the island in 1793 by a decree of the Convention with the fall of the House of Bourbon in France, and the name commemorates the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris, which took place on 10 August 1792.

When it was restored to France by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the island retained the name of " Bourbon " until the fall of the restored Bourbons during the French Revolution of 1848, when the island was once again given the name “ Réunion ”.

During the Second World War, Réunion was under the authority of the Vichy Regime until 30 November 1942, when Free French forces took over the island with the destroyer Léopard.

In 2005, a similar case was brought against the French Government by the Association of Réunion of Creuse.

In 2005 and 2006, Réunion was hit by a crippling epidemic of chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes.

In 2007, the GDP of Réunion was 18. 7 billion US dollars at market exchange rates.

For two years he was in the service of the Portuguese Viceroy of Goa, but in 1735 he returned to French service as governor of the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ) and the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion ).

Along with its fellow DOMs of Guadeloupe, Réunion, and French Guiana, Martinique was intended to be legally identical to any department in the metropole.

The last attempt to reorganize Jacobin adherents was the foundation of the Réunion d ' amis de l ' égalité et de la liberté, in July 1799, which had its headquarters in the Salle du Manège of the Tuileries, and was thus known as the Club du Manège.

Arrested in the Isle of Bourbon ( now Réunion ) under the Terror, he was freed by the Reaction of Thermidor ( July 1794 ).

Duy Tân was deposed and exiled to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.

As the avifauna of the Mascarenes is predominantly of Indian origin though as old as to be highly distinct, it is not clear to which clade these starlings belong — or even if they are indeed starlings, as the Réunion Starling at least was highly aberrant and there have always been lingering doubts about whether they are correctly placed here.

Although they returned Réunion to France, they kept Mauritius as a base for expanding the British Empire.

After seven months there, their attempts to raise cattle and grow crops were unfruitful and they returned to Réunion, abandoning the cattle on the island.

Having returned from the isle of Réunion, Benoît de Boigne received the title of Field Marshal on October 20, 1814, and the Croix de Saint-Louis ( Order of Saint Louis ) on December 6.

The leading military power in the region, France has detachments on Mahoré and Réunion, and its Indian Ocean fleet sails the waters around the islands.

* 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

Réunion, is an overseas département of France.

The island's weather station, which warns of cyclones, is still operated by France and is staffed by meteorologists from Réunion.

** French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

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The company failed to establish a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon ( now Réunion ) and Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).

In France, Good Friday is only observed in the Departments that once belonged to Germany: Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle, along with some overseas departments such as Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, and Réunion

Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France.

Like the other overseas departments, Réunion is also one of the 27 regions of France ( being an overseas region ) and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as those situated on the European mainland.

Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, is part of the Eurozone.

Réunion became a département d ' outre-mer ( overseas départment ) of France on 19 March 1946.

For a period of around two decades in the twentieth century ( 1968-1982 ), 1, 630 children from Réunion were relocated to France, particularly to Creuse.

It is not known exactly how many people there are of each ethnicity since there is a ban on ethnic censuses in France, which applies in Réunion because it is a part of the 1958 constitution and also due to the extnet of racial mixing on the island.

In addition to its metropolitan territory, France also consists of overseas departments made up of its former colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean, and Mayotte and Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

* B .- F. Mahé de La Bourdonnais: Mémoires historiques de B .- F. Mahé de La Bourdonnais, gouverneur des îles de France et de la Réunion, recueillis et publiés par son petit-fils ... ( Cte A .- C. Mahé de La Bourdonnais ).

Colonies were also founded in the Indian Ocean, on the Île de Bourbon ( Réunion, 1664 ), Isle de France ( Mauritius, 1718 ), and the Seychelles ( 1756 ).

At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, most of France's colonies were restored to it by Britain, notably Guadeloupe and Martinique in the West Indies, French Guiana on the coast of South America, various trading posts in Senegal, the Île Bourbon ( Réunion ) in the Indian Ocean, and France's tiny Indian possessions ; though Britain finally annexed Saint Lucia, Tobago, the Seychelles, and the Isle de France ( now Mauritius ).

From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day.

Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Réunion ( France ) and the UK.