List of Prefects of French Guiana

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French Guiana has been a French colony since 1674, but only in 1691 the French rulers in Paris thought a colonial head was needed to manage the territory.

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[edit] Governors of The first French Colony of Guiana (1691 - 1809)

      1691 -        1700  Pierre Eléonore de la Ville,
                          marquis de Férolles (3rd time)     (b. 16... - d. 1705)
      1700 -        1701  Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (1st time)                         (b. 16... - d. 1713)
      1701 -  5 Aug 1705  Pierre Eléonore de la Ville,
                          marquis de Férolles (4th time)     (s.a.)
      1705 -        1706  Antoine de Querci de Rionville
      1706 -        1713  Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (2nd time)                         (s.a.)
      1713 -        1716  Pierre de Morthon de Laumière
                          de Grandville
      1716 -        1720  Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (1st time)                         (b. 1668 - d. 1728)
      1720 -        1722  François de la Motte-Aigron
      1722 -        1728  Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (2nd time)                         (s.a.)
      1729 -        1730  Michel Narshalek de Charanville
      1730                Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (1st time)
      1730 - 30 Aug 1736  Henri Dussault de Lamirande        (b. ... - d. 1736)
      1736                Henri de Poilvillain de Grenay
      1736 -        1738  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (2nd time)
      1738 -        1743  Antoine Le Moyne de Chateauguay    (b. 1683 - d. 1747)
      1743 -        1751  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (3rd time)
      1751 -        1752  Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de
                          Saint-Michel Dunezat (1st time)
      1752 -        1753  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (4th time)
      1753 -        1757  Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de
                          Saint-Michel Dunezat (2nd time)
      1757 -        1763  Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                          (5th time)
      1763 -        1764  Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague
                          (1st time)                         (b. 1727 - d. 1813)
      1764                Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond
                          (1st time)
      1764 -        1765  Étienne François de Turgot         (b. 1721 - d. 1789)
      1765 -        1766  Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague
                          (2nd time)                         (s.a.)
      1766 -        1781  Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond
                          (2nd time)
      1781 -        1785  Ferdinand Alexandre de Bessner
      1785                Louis de Lavallière
      1785 -        1787  Thomas de FitzMaurice
  May 1787 - 22 Oct 1788  Pierre François de Mareuilh de
                          Villeboi                           (b. ... - d. 1788)
      1788 -        1789  Charles Guillaume Vial d'Alais
      1789 -        1791  Jacques Martin de Bourgon
      1791 -        1792  Henri Benoît
      1792 -        1793  Frédéric Guillot

14 Apr 1793 - Nov 1794 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin

                          (1st time)                         (b. 1762 - d. 1828)
  Nov 1794 -    Apr 1796  François Maurice Cointet de
                          Fillain                            (b. 1766 - d. 1809)
  Apr 1796 -    Nov 1798  Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin
                          (2nd time)                         (s.a.)
  Nov 1798 -  2 Dec 1799  Pierre Burnel                      (b. 1762 - d. ...)

13 Dec 1799 - 8 Jan 1800 Étienne Franconie (b. 1729? - d. 18...)

8 Jan 1800 -        1809  Victor Hugues                      (b. 1762 - d. 1826)


[edit] Governor of the Colony of French Guiana during the Portuguese/Brazilian occupation (1809 - 1817)

      1809 -  8 Nov 1817  João Severiano Maciel da Costa     (b. 1769 - d. 1833)
                          (Portuguese governor)

[edit] Governors of the Second French Colony of Guiana/French Guiana (1817 - 19 March 1946)

      1817 -        1819  Jean-François Carra Saint-Cyr      (b. 1756 - d. 1834)

25 Jan 1819 - 12 Mar 1823 Pierre Clément de Laussat (b. 1756 - d. 1835)

      1823 -        1825  Pierre Bernard de Milius           (b. 1773 - d. 1829)
      1825 -        1826  Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard
      1826 -        1827  Joseph Burgues de Missiessy
      1827 -        1829  Louis Henri de Saulces de
                          Freycinet                          (b. 1777 - d. 1840)
1 Jun 1829 - 11 Apr 1836  Jean-Guillaume Jubelin             (b. 1787 - d. 18...)
      1836 -        1837  François Dominique Laurens de
                          Choisy
      1837 -        1839  Paul de Nourquer du Camper
      1839 -        1841  Augustin Gourbeyre                 (b. 1786 - d. 1845)
      1841 -        1843  Guillaume Charmasson de Puylaval   (b. 1780 - d. 18...)
      1843 -        1845  Jean-François Layrle               (b. 1791 - d. 1881)
      1845 -        1846  Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand
                          Cadéot

18 Feb 1846 - 16 May 1850 André Aimé Pariset (b. 1795 - d. 1872)

      1850 -  6 Jan 1851  Louis Eugène Maissin               (b. 1811 - d. 1851)
      1851                Jean François Marie Félix
                          Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes       (b. 1796 - d. ...)
  Mar 1851 -    May 1852  Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de
                          Chabannes-Curton                   (b. 1803 - d. 1889)
      1852 -        1853  Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga      (b. 1808 - d. 1877)
      1853 -        1854  Martin Fourichon                   (b. 1809 - d. 1884)
      1854 -        1855  Louis Adolphe Bonard               (b. 1805 - d. 1867)
      1855 -    Jan 1856  Antoine Alphonse Masset
  Jan 1856 -        1859  Auguste Baudin                     (b. 1800 - d. 1877)

15 May 1859 - 1 May 1864 Louis Tardy de Montravel (b. 1811 - d. 1864)

      1864 -        1865  Antoine Favre
      1865 -        1870  Agathon Hennique                   (b. 1810 - d. 1870)

30 Apr 1870 - Aug 1877 Jean-Louis Loubère (b. 1820 - d. ...)

                          (acting to 1871)
      1877 -        1880  Marie Alfred Armand Huart          (b. 1826 - d. ...)
      1880 -        1883  Charles Alexandre Lacouture        (b. 1829 - d. 1917)
      1883 -        1884  Henri Isidore Chessé               (b. 1839 - d. ...)
      1884 -        1885  Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon      (b. 1843 - d. ...)
      1885 -        1887  Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal    (b. 1830 - d. ...)
      1888 -        1891  Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus
                          Gerville-Réache                    (b. 1849 - d. ...)
  Apr 1891 -        1893  Albert Grodet (1st time) (acting)  (b. 1853 - d. 1933)
      1893                Paul Fawtier                       (b. 1837 - d. 1903)

24 Apr 1893 - 4 Aug 1895 Camille Charvein (b. 1834 - d. ...) 30 Aug 1895 - 13 Jun 1896 Henri de Lamothe (b. 1843 - d. 1926)

      1896 -        1898  Henri Danel                        (b. 1850 - d. ...)
      1898                Henri Charles Roberdeau            (b. 1849 - d. 1916)
      1899                Louis Mouttet                      (b. 1857 - d. 1902)
      1899 -        1903  Émile Merwart
      1903 -        1904  Albert Grodet (2nd time)           (s.a.)
      1905                Charles Marchal                    (b. 1855 - d. 1917)
      1905 -        1906  Victor François Ferdinand Rey
      1906                Louis Alphonse Bonhoure            (b. 1864 - d. 1909)

20 Jan 1906 - 5 Jul 1907 Édouard Picanon (b. 1854 - d. 1939)

      1907 -        1909  François Pierre Rodier             (b. 1854 - d. 19...)
      1909 -        1910  William Maurice Fawtier            (b. 1867 - d. 19...)
      1910                Fernand Ernest Thérond
      1910 - 31 May 1911  Paul Samary                        (b. 1848 - d. 1911)
      1911                Denys Joseph Goujon                (b. 1863 - d. 19...)
      1911 -        1914  Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
                          (1st time)                         (b. 1870 - d. 19...)
      1914 -        1916  Fernand Ernest Lévecque
      1916                Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
                          (2nd time)                         (s.a.)
      1916 -        1917  Georges Lévy                       (b. 1867 - d. 19...)
      1917                Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret        (b. 1866 - d. 19...)
      1917 -        1918  Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre
      1918 -        1923  Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune
      1923                Julien Edgard Cantau

20 Nov 1923 - 1926 Marc Émile Chanel (b. 1882 - d. 1943)

      1926 -        1927  Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly
      1927                Adrien Juvanon                     (b. 1875 - d. 19...)
      1927 -        1928  Émile Buhot-Launay                 (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
      1928 -        1929  Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
      1929 -        1931  Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous

27 May 1931 - 1933 Louis Bouge (acting) (b. 1878 - d. 1960)

      1933 -        1935  Julien Georges Lamy
2 Jun 1935 -        1936  Max de Masson de Saint-Félix       (b. ... - d. 1939)
      1936                Pierre Tap
      1936 -        1938  René Veber (1st time)
      1938 -        1942  Robert Paul Chot-Plassot
      1942 -        1943  René Veber (2nd time)
      1943 -        1944  Jean Rapenne                       (b. 1901)
      1944 -        1946  Jules Surlemont (acting)           (b. 1897 - d. 1983)
      1946 (19 March declared Overseas territory)                Jean Pezet


[edit] Prefects of the French Overseas Territory of French Guiana (19 March 1946 - 1982)

Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic) 1946 Jean Pezet 16 Aug 1947 - 1 Jun 1955 Robert Vignon (b. 1910 - d. 1989)

1 Jun 1955 - 16 Sep 1957  Pierre Malvy                       (b. 1909)
1 Oct 1957 -  1 Nov 1958  Pierre Voitellier                  (b. 1910)

13 Oct 1958 - 1 Dec 1960 André Dubois-Chabert (b. 1913 - d. 1992)

                          (acting for Voitellier to 1 Nov 1958)
1 Dec 1960 -  1 Dec 1963  René Erignac                       (b. 1909)
1 Dec 1963 - 16 Aug 1967  René Letellier                     (b. 1914)

16 Aug 1967 - 16 Jul 1970 Paul Bouteiller (b. 1921) 16 Jul 1970 - 1 Feb 1972 Jean Monfraix (b. 1918)

1 Feb 1972 -  8 Feb 1974  Jacques Robert Delaunay            (b. 1921)
5 Mar 1974 - 20 May 1977  Hervé Bourseillier                 (b. 1925)

20 May 1977 - 10 Feb 1980 Jean Le Direach (b. 1924) 10 Feb 1980 - 27 Jul 1981 Antoine Carli (b. 1924) 27 Jul 1981 - 10 May 1982 Maxime Gonzalvo (b. 1917)


[edit] Commissioners of the republic of the French Overseas Territory of French Guiana (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988)

  10 May 1982 - 22 Jul 1982  Maxime Gonzalvo                    (b. 1917)

Jul 1982 - 1984 Claude Silberzahn (b. 1935)

      1984 -        1986  Bernard Courtois                   (b. 1935)
      1986 -    Aug 1988  Jacques Dewatre                    (b. 1936)

22 Aug 1988 - 16 May 1990 Jean-Pierre Lacroix (b. 1942) 19 Jun 1990 - May 1992 Jean-François Di Chiara (b. 1941?) 27 May 1992 - 6 Jan 1995 Jean-François Cordet (b. 1951)

6 Jan 1995 -  3 Feb 1997  Pierre Dartout                     (b. 1954)
3 Feb 1997 -  2 Aug 1999  Dominique Vian                     (b. 1944)
2 Aug 1999 -  2 Sep 2002  Henri Masse                        (b. 1947)
2 Sep 2002 -    Aug 2006  Ange Mancini                       (b. 1944)

28 Aug 2006 - Jean-Pierre Laflaquière (b. 1947)


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