La Réunion, originally an uninhabited island, became a French possesion in
1642, real colonisation however only starting in 1665 when the first
settlers arrived.
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FRENCH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors(1)
Gouverneurs
1869 - 1875 Louis Hippolyte de Lormel
1875 - 1879 Pierre Aristide Faron
1879 - 1886 Pierre Étienne Cuinier
1886 - 1888 Étienne Antoine Guillaume Richaud
1888 - 1893 Louis Evenor Édouard Manès
1893 - 1896 Henri Eloi Danel
1896 - 1901 Laurent Marie Émile Beauchamp
1901 - 1906 Paul Samary
1906 - 1908 Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure
1908 - 1910 Camille Lucien Xavier Guy 1860 - 1929
1910 Philippe Émile Jullien
1910 - 1913 François Pierre Rodier
1913 - 1920 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
1920 - 1923 Frédéric Estèbe
1923 - 1925 Maurice Pierre Lapalud
1925 - 1934 Jules Vincent Repiquet
1934 - 1936 Alphonse Paul Albert Choteau
1936 - 1938 Léon Hippolyte Truitard
1938 - 1940 Joseph Urbain Court
1940 - 1942 Pierre Émile Aubert
1942 - 1946 André Jean Charles Capagorry (2)(1) Until the French annexation of Madagascar in 1896, the governors of
La Réunion also were the chief responsibles for the other French
possessions in the region :
- Mayotte and the Comoro Sultanates
- the possessions on Madagascar
- the Antarctic islands
(2) Governor for the Free French National Committee in London, whose troops
occupied the island - till then subject to Vichy-France - in 1942.
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