 Dupleix never recovered from this blow and was superseded in August 1754 by his director Godehou, who made an unfavourable settlement with the British.On 26December 1754, he signed the Treaty of Pondicherry with Thomas Saunders, the English East India Company's resident at Madras, that forbade the British and French companies all political activity in India and the activity must be strictly commercial.His intervention in French activity at that time left an unerasable scar on Dupleix's efforts and became the death blow for future expansion of the French Colonial Empire in India.