Talk:Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar (1661)
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The text used
The 1661 edition is cited from the Gallica scan (ark:/12148/bpt6k1047463), which has no text layer. Every passage quoted or summarised on the page is taken from the page image. Quotations keep the printed spelling, including u for v and the absence of accents where the print has none ("tout a fait fabuleuse"), but print the long s as s. The dedication, the royal privilege, the glossary and the foreword have no page numbers and are cited by name.
The edition of 1658 was not compared. Whether its chapter on plants has the same hemp passage, and in the same words, is open.
Names
The title page and the privilege call the company "Compagnie Françoise de l'Orient"; Ferrand (1905) calls it the Compagnie de l'Orient. Some English works call Flacourt a governor for the French East India Company, a name that belongs to the Compagnie des Indes orientales founded in 1664. The page uses the company's own name.
The page keeps Flacourt's forms (Rongogne, Ahetsmangha, Ahetsboule, Ombiasse, Anossi, Manghabé or Manghabei). The modern rongony and ombiasy are not substituted in reporting him. Ombiasses Negres is quoted as printed and not glossed.
Where the hemp was grown
Flacourt calls the hemp-field Ahetsmangha and Ahetsboule "en ce païs" (in this country) and Rongogne at Manghabé. "Ce païs" may mean the island as a whole or the south-east where he lived; the passage does not settle it, and the page quotes the phrase.
Dates
Faublée (1996) dates the two volumes of the Grandidier edition 1912 and 1920; the page follows him.