Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel

{{Short description|French sailor and administrator of the colony on present-day Mauritius}}

{{Expand French|topic=bio|Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel|date=November 2021}}

Guillaume Dufresne d'Arsel (born in 1668 in Saint-Malo, France) established French rule of Mauritius under the French East India Company in 1715.{{cite book |last1=Nave |first1=Ari |editor-last1=Gates Jr. |editor-first1=Henry Louis |editor1-link=Henry Louis Gates Jr. |editor-last2=Appiah |editor-first2=Kwame Anthony |editor2-link=Kwame Anthony Appiah |title=Encyclopedia of Africa |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195337709.001.0001 |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, Oxfordshire |chapter=Mauritius |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195337709.001.0001/acref-9780195337709-e-2567?rskey=SiLk29&result=802 |isbn=978-0-19-533770-9 }}{{cite book |last1=Cunat |first1=Charles |author-link1=Charles Cunat |title=Saint-Malo illustré par ses marins: précédé d'une notice historique sur cette ville depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/saintmaloillust00cunagoog/page/n314/mode/1up |year=1857 |publisher=Imprimerie de F. Péalat |location=Rennes, France |chapter=Guillaume Dufresne, Sieur d'Arsel |pages=306–308 |language=French |trans-title=Saint-Malo Illustrated by Its Sailors: Preceded by a Historical Notice on This City from Its Founding to the Present Day |oclc=457309267}}