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List of governors of La Réunion

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The governor of Bourbon or La Réunion was a French colonial role. When the island became a French overseas department in 1946, the role was replaced by a prefect.

Start End Governor
5 August 1665 8 May 1671 Étienne Regnault
9 May 1671 End of November 1674 Jacques de La Heure
End of November 1674 17 June 1678 Henry Esse d'Orgeret
18 June 1678 January 1680 Germain de Fleurimont Moulinier
January 1680 1 December 1686 F. Bernardin de Quimper
2 December 1686 9 December 1689 Jean-Baptiste Drouillard
11 December 1689 26 November 1690 Henri Habert de Vauboulon
26 November 1690 2 July 1696 Directoire de Saint-Paul
1 August 1696 6 June 1698 Joseph Bastide
21 October 1699 13 May 1701 Jacques de La Cour
12 June 1701 5 March 1709 Jean-Baptiste de Villiers
7 March 1709 24 March 1710 Michel François Des Bordes
22 April 1710 14 November 1715 Antoine de Parat de Chaillenest
4 December 1715 14 February 1718 Henry de Justamond
6 September 1718 22 August 1723 Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant
23 August 1723 1 December 1725 Antoine Desforges-Boucher
2 December 1725 28 May 1727 Hélie Dioré
21 July 1727 11 July 1735 Pierre-Benoît Dumas
12 July 1735 1 October 1735 Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais
2 October 1735 30 September 1739 Charles L'Emery Dumont
11 November 1739 12 December 1743 Pierre-André d'Héguerty
13 December 1743 8 May 1745 Didier de Saint-Martin
15 May 1745 31 October 1745 Jean-Baptiste Azéma
1 November 1745 18 December 1745 Didier de Saint-Martin
29 December 1745 28 March 1747 Gérard Gaspard de Ballade
14 April 1747 11 November 1748 Didier de Saint-Martin
22 November 1748 17 March 1749 Gérard Gaspard de Ballade
24 May 1749 23 August 1749 Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher
6 September 1749 16 October 1750 Joseph Brenier
16 October 1750 14 décembre 1752 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
12 July 1757 15 October 1757 Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher
19 October 1757 6 September 1763 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
7 September 1763 14 October 1763 Jean Sentuary
5 November 1763 30 March 1767 François Jacques Bertin
31 March 1767 4 November 1767 Martin Adrien Bellier

For the king of France

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Start End Governor
1 November 1767 26 July 1772 Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe
20 October 1772 4 March 1773 De Savourin
27 July 1773 4 October 1773 Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe
15 December 1773 15 October 1776 Jean Guillaume de Steynauer
26 October 1776 30 April 1779 François de Souillac
25 May 1779 22 August 1781 Joseph Murinay, comte de Saint-Maurice
25 August 1781 21 April 1785 Joseph Chalvet, baron de Souville
2 May 1785 15 February 1788 Elie Dioré
21 February 1788 15 August 1790 David Charpentier de Cossigny

French Revolution and British occupation

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Start End Governor
8 September 1790 18 October 1792 Dominique Prosper de Chermont
19 October 1792 11 April 1794 Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux du Plessis
12 April 1794 1 November 1795 Pierre Alexandre Roubaud
2 November 1795 7 October 1803 Pierre Antoine Jacob de Cordemoy
10 November 1803 31 December 1805 François-Louis Magallon
9 January 1806 25 September 1809 Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys
9 October 1809 8 July 1810 Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne
9 July 1810 20 December 1810 Robert Townsend Farquhar
20 December 1810 26 April 1811 Henry Sheehy Keating
26 April 1811 10 July 1811 Robert Townsend Farquhar
10 July 1811 5 April 1815 Henry Sheehy Keating
Start End Governor
6 April 1815 30 June 1817 Athanase Bouvet de Lozier
1 July 1817 9 September 1818 Hilaire Urbain de Laffite du Courteil
13 September 1818 14 February 1821 Pierre Bernard Milius
15 February 1821 14 October 1826 Louis-Henri de Freycinet
20 October 1826 4 July 1830 Achille Guy Marie, Comte de Cheffontaines
5 July 1830 7 November 1832 Étienne-Henri Mengin du Val d'Ailly
8 November 1832 4 May 1838 Jacques Philippe Cuvillier
5 May 1838 14 October 1841 Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell
15 October 1841 4 June 1846 Charles Léon Joseph Bazoche
5 June 1846 13 October 1848 Joseph Graeb
13 October 1848 7 March 1850 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga
9 March 1850 14 February 1851 Marie-Bon-Ézéchiel Barolet de Puligny
15 February 1851 8 August 1852 Louis Isaac Pierre Hilaire Doret
8 August 1852 8 January 1858 Louis Henri Hubert Delisle
11 January 1858 27 March 1858 Lefevre
28 March 1858 19 September 1863 Rodolphe Augustin, baron Darricau
4 January 1865 23 October 1869 Marie Jules Dupré
27 September 1869 18 September 1875 Louis Hippolyte de Lormel
Start End Governor
19 November 1875 29 April 1879 Pierre Aristide Faron
6 May 1879 23 March 1886 Pierre Étienne Cuinier
11 October 1886 16 December 1887 Émile Richaud
16 December 1887 21 August 1888 Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon
22 August 1888 7 May 1891 Anne Louis Edouard Manès
7 May 1891 20 November 1891 Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon
20 November 1891 10 July 1893 Anne Louis Edouard Manès
11 July 1893 21 June 1895 Henri Éloi Danel
22 June 1895 12 August 1895 Henri Roberdeau
13 August 1895 19 May 1896 Benedict Jacob de Cordemoy
19 May 1896 30 October 1900 Laurent Marie Émile Beauchamps
30 October 1900 19 February 1901 Charles André Madre
19 February 1901 29 July 1905 Paul Samary
29 July 1905 30 August 1906 Fernand Théron
30 August 1906 7 November 1906 Marius Verignon
8 November 1906 27 December 1907 Adrien Bonhoure
1 January 1908 19 March 1908 Henri Cor
19 March 1908 18 January 1910 Camille Guy
18 January 1910 17 September 1910 Philippe Émile Jullien
11 July 1910 28 July 1910 Marie Joachim Stanislas Sice
18 September 1910 28 July 1912 François Pierre Rodier
30 August 1912 22 November 1912 Hubert Auguste Garbit
23 November 1913 1 June 1919 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
2 June 1919 26 July 1920 Victor Jean Brochard
27 July 1920 5 September 1922 Frédéric Estebbe
6 September 1922 21 August 1923 Henri Cleret de Langavant
22 August 1923 2 October 1924 Maurice Lapalud
31 March 1925 10 September 1928 Jules Vincent Repiquet
10 September 1928 17 May 1930 Louis Fabre
17 May 1930 28 November 1932 Jules Vincent Repiquet
28 November 1932 13 June 1934 Louis Fabre
14 June 1934 29 May 1936 Alfred Paul Albert Choteau
29 May 1936 16 August 1936 Charles Victor Allard
17 August 1936 27 October 1938 Léon Hippolyte 1e Truitard
28 October 1938 29 December 1939 Joseph Court
30 December 1939 1 December 1942 Pierre Émile Aubert
1 December 1942 17 July 1947 André Capagorry
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