over the past 25 years, the seychelles community in the eu has presented briefly the issues and reasons why those that had formed the planters association—grand blanc—had wanted to charter and plan a different course of history for seychelles then under british colonial rule. they involved the elite of seychelles of french descent in the british government colonial administration=, the police, the public work department, treasury, the local banks, cable and wireless, the hospital, the harbour and agriculture department.