The island of Martinique was occupied by the French in 1635.
Originally privately owned, it became a dependency of the French state in 1674.
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FRENCH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors
Gouverneurs
(not all military ranks could be retraced)
1844 - 1848 Capt. Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu
1848 Gen. ... Rostoland*
1848 François Auguste Perrinon,
Commissioner General entrusted
with the abolition of slavery 1812 - 1861
1848 - 1851 Adm. Armand Joseph Bruat 1796 - 1855
1851 - 1853 Adm. Auguste Napoléon Vaillant
1853 ... Brunot*
1853 - 1856 Capt. Louis Henri, Comte de Gueydon 1809 - 1886
1856 ... Lagrange*
1856 - 1859 Gen. Armand Louis Joseph Denis,
Comte Fitte de Soucy
1859 ... Lagrange* (2x)
1859 - 1864 Capt. Antoine Marie Ferdinand de
Maussion de Candé
1864 - 1867 Capt. François Théodore de Lapelin
1867 A. C. Vérand*
1867 - 1869 Louis Auguste Bertier
1869 - 1870 ... Couturier*
1870 - 1871 Charles Louis Constant Menche de
Loisne
1871 ... Gilbert-Pierre*
1871 - 1874 Adm. Georges Charles Cloué 1817 - 1889
1874 L. Michaux*
1875 - 1877 Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant
de Kergrist
1877 - 1879 Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset
1879 C. A. Lacouture*
1879 - 1881 Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube
1881 ... Morau*
1881 - 1887 Vincent Gaëtan Allègre 1835 - 1899
1887 ... Coridon*
1887 - 1889 Louis Albert Grodet 1853 - 1933
1889 - 1892 Germain Casse 1837 - 1900
1892 - 1895 Delphino Moracchini 1846 -
1895 - 1898 Noël Pardon
1898 - 1901 Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié
1901 - 1902 Louis Mouttet 1857 - 1902
1902 - 1904 Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire
1904 - 1907 Louis Alphonse Bonhoure 1864 - 1909
1907 - 1908 Charles Louis Lépreux 1856 - 1930
1908 - 1913 Fernand Foureau 1850 - 1914
1913 - 1914 Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher
1914 - 1915 Georges Virgile Poulet
1915 - 1920 Camille Lucien Xavier Guy 1860 - 1929
1920 - 1921 Jules Maurice Gourbeil
1921 - 1923 Fernand Ernest Lévecque
1923 - 1926 Henri Marius Richard
1926 - 1928 Robert Paul Marie de Guise
1928 - 1933 Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis 1871 - 1954
1933 - 1934 Antoine Félix Sylvestre Éboué* 1884 - 1944
1934 René Veber
1934 - 1935 Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa
1935 - 1936 Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset
1936 Marie Marc Georges Pelicier
1936 - 1938 Jean-Baptiste Alberti
1938 Léopold Arthur André Allys* 1888 - 1968
1938 - 1939 Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre
1939 - 1940 Georges Aimé Spitz 1881 - 1959
1940 - 1941 Louis Henri François-Denis
Bressoles
1941 - 1943 Yves Maurice Nicol 1887 - 1954
1943 - 1944 Louis Georges André Ponton,
appointed by the CFLN (1) 1906 - 1944
1944 - 1945 Antoine Marie Angelini
1945 - 1946 Georges Hubert Parisot 1887 - 1969
(1) Theater Atlantic West
In 1939 - in prevision of a possible war - the French possessions in
the Americas (French Guyana and Inini, Guadeloupe, Martinique and
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) were regrouped in the Theater Atlantic West,
whose head held both administrative and military authority over the local
administrators.
High Commissioner and Commander of the Theater Atlantic West
Haut-Commissaire et Commandant du Théatre Atlantique Ouest
(Seat on Martinique)
1939 - 1943 Adm. Georges Robert 1875 - 1965
In 1940 Robert rallied to the Vichy regime established in France after
German victory.
In 1943 he was ousted out of power by a military revolt (leader : Cdr.
Désiré Henri Auguste Tourtet 1... - 1945) and soon afterwards Henri
Hoppeton (1891 - ....), delegate of the French Committee for National
Liberation (Comité Français de Liberation Nationale-CFLN) to the
Antilles toke charge of Guadeloupe and Martinique, French Guyana and
Inini and Saint Pierre et Miquelon already having rallied to the Free
French in 1943 and 1941.
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