Editing Louis XIII (section)

===Asia===
[[File:Fleet of Montmorency led by Augustin de Beaulieu 1619 1622.jpg|thumb|upright|"Fleet of Montmorency", led by [[Augustin de Beaulieu]], in the [[East Indies]], 1619–22]]

[[France-Japan relations]] started under Louis XIII in 1615 when [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], a Japanese samurai and ambassador, sent to Rome by [[Date Masamune]], landed at [[Saint-Tropez]] for a few days. In 1636, [[Guillaume Courtet]], a French [[Dominican order|Dominican]] priest, reciprocated when he set foot in Japan.<ref>''Butler's Lives of the Saints'' by Alban Butler, Paul Burns, p. 259</ref>

Also in 1615, Marie de' Medici incorporated the merchants of Dieppe and other harbours to found the [[Company of the Moluccas]]. In 1619, an armed expedition composed of three ships (275 crew, 106 cannon) and called the "Fleet of Montmorency" under General [[Augustin de Beaulieu]] was sent from Honfleur, to fight [[Netherlands|the Dutch]] in the [[Far East]]. In 1624, with the [[Treaty of Compiègne]], Cardinal Richelieu obtained an agreement to halt the Dutch–French warfare in the Far East.<ref name="Lach">{{cite book|title=Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance|volume= 1 |first=Donald F.|last=Lach|author-link=Donald F. Lach|pages= 93–94, 398 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjVKjJ-WgOYC&pg=PA94|isbn= 9780226467658 |date= 15 December 1998 |publisher= University of Chicago Press }}</ref>