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De Lanerolle Brothers on ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin & Kumar’ Source:Island Colombo. 24 August. ‘Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar’ this month is also a Rendez-Vous with Sri Lanka’s internationally renowned singing duo, the de Lanerolle Brothers, Rohan and Ishan, as the show journeys up their family tree to a 17th century French naval expedition to Ceylon. This was during the reign of King Louis XIV when his Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert set up the Compagnie des Indes Orientales or the French East Indies Company in 1664. With French naval interests in the East Indies expanding, an expedition arrived in the Bay of Trincomalee in 1672 to establish a trading post in Ceylon. ...