The island of Corsica became a possession of the Republic of Genoa in 1284. Unable
to quell the successive Corsican revolts the Genoese finally called the French for
help and in 1768 they ceded the administration of the island to France "for as long
as was necessary to cover the expences made by that state to suppress the revolts"
(done by 1769).
This de facto cession of the island was followed by a formal annexation to France
in 1789 and except for the periods 1794 - 1796 and 1814 when it was under British
rule the island now remained a French possession, organized as a French department
since 1811.
In 1940 Corsica became part of the French State of Vichy but in 1943 - after a brief
Italian (1942-1943) and German (1943) occupation - it rallied to the Free French.
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FRENCH CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Commissioner(s) of the Government
Commissaire(s) du Gouvernement
1848 Pierre Marie Pietri (possibly together
with Pierre Auguste Vogin - 1809 - 1882) 1809 - 1864
Commissioner General
Commissaire général
1848 André Pozzo di Borgo
Prefects
Préfets
1848 - 1849 Antoine Aubert 1800 - 1882
1849 - 1852 Jean-Baptiste Olivier Jules César,
Comte Rivaud de la Raffinière 1804 - 1869
1852 - 1856 Constant Thuillier 1815 - 1865
1856 - 1860 Félix Alexis Montois 1809 - 1883
1860 - 1861 Jean Paul Gustave Segaud 1817 - 1865
1861 - 1870 Louis Charles Germaine Géry 1820 - 1911
1870 Jacques Ernest Boyer 1814 -
1870 - 1871 Dominique François (Domenicu Francescu)
Ceccaldi 1833 - 1897
1871 Emmanuel Gustave Naquet 1819 - 1889
1871 - 1872 Eugène Louis Lambert Paul Dhormoys 1828 -
1872 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Dauzon 1824 -
1872 - 1873 Antoine Charles Léon Daunassans 1826 - 1897
1873 Eugène René Poubelle 1831 - 1907
1873 - 1875 Albert Souvestre 1831 -
1875 - 1877 Antoine Charles Léon Daunassans (2x)
1877 Emmanuel Louis Grandval 1819 -
1877 - 1879 Eugène Schnerb 1829 - 1897
1879 Paul Adrien, Baron d'Artigues 1841 -
1879 - 1880 Louis Albert Delasalle 1840 - 1886
1880 Charles Edgar Omer de Marçay 1842 - 1898
1880 - 1881 Louis Gilbert Leguay 1839 - 1896
1881 - 1882 Jean Joseph Arthur Gragnon 1844 - 1914
1882 Aristide Léopold Demangeat 1831 -
1882 - 1884 Marie Lucien Justin Maurice André de
Tremontels 1848 -
1884 - 1885 Jules louis Dufresne 1840 - 1902
1885 Léon Barrabant 1843 -
1885 - 1886 Emmanuel Joseph Georges Bes de Brec 1847 - 1907
1886 - 1889 Auguste Fremont 1846 -
1889 - 1895 Jacques Marcel Bonnefoy-Sibour 1851 - 1919
1895 - 1896 Charles Etienne Lutaud 1855 - 1921
1896 Jules Adrien Jean Bonhoure 1860 -
1896 - 1897 Paul Joseph Boudier 1854 - 1908
1897 - 1904 Jean Joseph Félix Cassaneau 1855 -
1904 - 1905 Marcel François Delanney 1863 - 1944
1905 - 1906 Jean Baptiste Pierre Ferdinand Phellut 1850 -
1906 - 1909 Auguste Marie Joseph Chaleil 1865 - 1920
1909 - 1910 Jacques Prosper Edmond Fabre 1866 - 1919
1910 - 1911 Claude Clément Buellet 1861 - 1925
1911 - 1912 Hippolyte Juilliard 1871 - 1926
1912 - 1914 Louis Charles Thibon 1866 - 1940
1914 Gabriel Marc Charles Olivier Brin 1865 - 1914
1914 - 1918 Albert Marie Georges Henry 1868 -
1918 - 1919 François Parfait Gaston Allain 1869 -
1919 - 1920 Théophile Noé Louis Barnier 1882 -
1920 - 1921 Antoine Maurice Mounier 1873 -
1921 - 1924 Georges Félix Maurice Thomé 1876 - 1955
1924 - 1929 Louis Florentin Marlier 1877 - 1958
1929 - 1930 Amédée Félix Bussière 1886 - 1953
1930 - 1935 Joseph Paul Dieudonné Seguin 1879 -
1935 - 1936 Jean-Baptiste Victor Dissard 1888 - 1970
1936 - 1940 Jules Henri Anastase Petitjean 1885 - 1969
1940 - 1943 Paul Louis Emmanuel Balley 1889 - 1959
1943 Pierre Lecène* 1908 - 1979
1943 François Jean Baptiste Louis Pelletier
rallied to the Free French on sep 09,
but was nevertheless replaced by ... 1898 -
1943 - 1944 Charles Jean Luizet, first prefect
appointed by the C.F.L.N. 1903 - 1947
1944 - 1945 Roger Louis Jean Moris 1906 - 1987
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Events of 1942 - 1943
1942
Nov 11 : After the allied landing in French Northern Africa, Corsica was occupied
by Italian forces, the French administration continuing however to function
as before.
1943
Jul : Arrival of the first German forces.
Sep 08 : Start of the war between Italian and German forces. At the same time the
French resistance - led by the communist National Front (Front National) -
revolted and seized the towns of Ajaccio and Bastia, soon afterwads making
an alliance with the Italians.
Sep 09 : Prefect Pelletier rallied to the French Committee of National Liberation
(Comité Français de Libération Nationale - CFLN) in Algiers.
Sep 13 : Arrival o the first Free French forces
Sep 14 : Arrival of Luizet, the first prefect appointed by the CFLN.
Oct 04 : Evacuation of the last German troops.
Commanders of the Italian Occupation Forces in Corsica
Commanders of the VII Army Corps
Commandanti del VII Corpo d'Armata
1942 - 1943 LtGen. Giacomo Carboni 1889 - 1973
1943 MajGen. Giovanni Magli 1884 -
Commanders of the German Forces in Corsica
Commander of the Sturmbrigade Reichsführer-SS
Befehlshaber des Sturmbrigade Reichsführer-SS
1943 SS Obersturmbannführer Karl Gesele 1912 - 1968
Army Commander of Sardinia and Corsica
Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber Sardinien und Korsika
1943 LtGen. Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin 1891 - 1963
Commander of the Free French Troops in Corsica
1943 Gen. Henri Jules Jean Martin 1888 - 1984
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