French Guiana
 

Former Regional Council Flag                 Regional Council Flag                Council General Flag Map of French Guiana Hear National Anthem "La Marseillaise"  Text of National Anthem Constitution  (28 Sep 1958) Capital: Cayenne  Currency: Euro (EUR); to 1 Jan 2002 French Franc (FRF) National Holiday: 14 Jul (1789) Bastille Day --------------------------- Local Holiday: 10 Jun (1848) Slavery Abolition Day Population: 204,932 (2007) GDP: $1.55 billion (2004)  Exports: $137 million (2002) Imports: $625 million (2002)  Ethnic groups: Guianese mulatto 37.9%, French 8%, Hatian 8%, Surinamese 6%, Antillean 5%, Chinese 5%, Brazilian 4.9%, East Indian 4%, other (West Indian, Hmong, other South American) 21.2% (2000) French Forces and Gendarmerie: 3,100 (2003) Defense is the Responsibility of France Merchant marine: None (2006)  Religions: Christian 84.6% (of which Roman Catholic 80%,  Protestant 3.9%), Chinese folk religionist 3.6%, Spiritist 3.5%, non-religious/atheist 3%, traditional beliefs 1.9%, Hindu 1.6%, Muslim 0.9%, other 0.9% (2000) International Organizations/Treaties: UPU, WFTU French Guiana Index Chronology Jan 1500                   Coastline sighted by Spanish Capt. Vicente Yáñez                              de Pinzón. 1604                       French expedition under Daniel de La Ravardière. 1624                       French establish Sinnemary as a trading post. 1637                       French establish Cayenne as a trading post. 27 Nov 1643                French settlement at Cayenne (under                               the Compagnie de Rouen to 1653). 1660 - 15 May 1664         Dutch occupation. 15 May 1664                Re-occupied by France (Guyane Français); under                              the Compagnie de la France Équinoxiale to 1674).  5 May 1676 - Dec 1676     Dutch occupation of Cayenne. 25 Oct 1797 - 1801         Organized as département of France; from 1801                              a colony 12 Jan 1809 -  8 Nov 1817  Portuguese/Brazilian occupation.  8 Nov 1817                Restored to France. 1852 - 1946                Penal colony on Devil's Island. 14 Sep 1939 - 16 May 1943  Subordinated to High Commissioner and Commander                              of the Theater Atlantic West (see Martinique). 16 Jun 1940 - 18 Mar 1943  Administration loyal to Vichy France                              (from 18 Mar 1943, under Free French).  6 Jul 1930 - 19 Mar 1946  French Guiana divided into two territories;                              French Guiana (Cayenne and the Atlantic coast)                              and Inini (inland area). 19 Mar 1946                French overseas département (previously colony). 28 Mar 2003                French overseas region. Inini Territory (1930-1946)

Governors
1644                       Charles Poncet de Brétigny         (d. 1644)
1644 - 1658                Huet de Navarre                    (b. 1611 - d. 1658) 
1660 - 1664                Jan Claessen Lagedijk 
                             (Dutch governor)
15 May 1664 - 1665         Joseph-Antoine Lefebvre de la
                             Barre (1st time)
1665                       Antoine de Noël de la Trompe d'Or
1665 - 1668                Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy (1st time)
1668 - 1670                Joseph-Antoine Lefebvre de la
                             Barre (2nd time)
 5 May 1676 - Dec 1676     .... (Dutch commander)
1670 - 1679                Cyprien Lefebvre de Lézy (2nd time)
1679 - 1684                Pierre-Eléonore de la Ville,       (b. 16.. - d. 1705)
                             marquis de Férolles (1st time) 
1684 - 1687                Pierre de Sainte-Marthe de Lalande
1687 - 1688                Pierre-Eléonore de la Ville,       (s.a.)
                             marquis de Férolles (2nd time) 
1688 - 1691                Francois Lefebvre de la Barre
1691 - 1700                Pierre Eléonore de la Ville,       (s.a.)
                             marquis de Férolles (3rd time) 
1700 - 1701                Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers        (b. 16.. - d. 1713)
                             (1st time)
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        (s.a.)
                             (2nd time) 
1713 - 1716                Pierre de Morthon de Laumière
                             de Grandville
1716 - 1720                Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers      (b. 1668 - d. 1728) 
                             (1st time)
1720 - 1722                François de la Motte-Aigron
1722 - 1729                Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers      (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
1729 - 1730                Michel Narshalek de Charanville
1730                       Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
                             (1st time)
1730 - 30 Aug 1736         Henri Dussault de Lamirande        (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     (b. 1727 - d. 1813)
                             (1st time)
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     (s.a.) 
                             (2nd time)
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                         (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      (b. 1762 - d. 1828)
                             (1st time)
Nov 1794 - Apr 1796        François Maurice Cointet de        (b. 1766 - d. 1809)
                             Fillain
Apr 1796 - Nov 1798        Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin      (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
Nov 1798 -  2 Dec 1799     Étienne Laurent Pierre Burnel      (b. 1762 - d. ....)
13 Dec 1799 -  8 Jan 1800  Étienne Franconie                  (b. 1729? - d. 18..)
1800 - 1808                Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues        (b. 1762 - d. 1826)
12 Jan 1808 -  8 Nov 1817  João Severiano Maciel da Costa     (b. 1760 - d. 1834)
                             (Portuguese governor)
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 Saulses de          (b. 1777 - d. 1840)
                             Freycinet 
 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                Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin       (b. 1786 - d. 1845)
                             Gourbeyre
1841 - 1843                Pons Guillaume Basile Charmasson   (b. 1780 - d. 18..)
                             du Puylaval
1843 - 1845                Marie 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          (b. 1796 - d. ....)
                             Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes
                             (acting)
May 1851 - May 1852        Octave Pierre Antoine de           (b. 1803 - d. 1889) 
                             Chabannes-Curton
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 (acting)
Jan 1856 - 1859            Auguste Laurent François Baudin    (b. 1800 - d. 1877)
15 May 1859 -  1 May 1864  Louis Marie François Tardy de      (b. 1811 - d. 1864)
                             Montravel
1864 - 1865                Antoine Favre (acting)
1865 - 1870                Privat Antoine Agathon Hennique    (b. 1810 - d. 1870)
1870                       J.A.A. Noyer (acting)
30 Apr 1870 - Aug 1877     Jeanean-Louis Loubère              (b. 1820 - d. ....)
                             (acting to 1871)
1877                       A.E. Bouet (acting)
1877 - 1880                Marie Alfred-Armand Huart          (b. 1826 - d. ....)
1880                       P.A. Trève (acting)
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. ....)
                             (acting)
1885 - 1887                Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal    (b. 1830 - d. ....)
1888 - 1891                Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus      (b. 1849 - d. ....)
                             Gerville-Réache
Apr 1891 - 1893            Louis Albert Grodet (1st time)     (b. 1853 - d. 1933)
1893                       Paul Émile Joseph Casimir Fawtier  (b. 1837 - d. 1903)
24 Apr 1893 -  4 Aug 1895  Camille Charvein                   (b. 1834 - d. ....)
30 Aug 1895 - 13 Jun 1896  Henri Félix de Lamothe             (b. 1843 - d. 1926)
1896 - 1898                Henri Eloi Danel                   (b. 1850 - d. ....)
1898 - 1899                Henri Charles Victor Amédée        (b. 1849 - d. 1916)
                             Roberdeau
1899                       Louis Mouttet                      (b. 1857 - d. 1902)
1899 - 1903                Émile Joseph Merwart               (b. 1869 - d. 1960)
1903 - 1905                Louis Albert Grodet (2nd time)     (s.a.)
1905                       Charles Emmanuel Joseph Marchal
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                       Denis Joseph Goujon                (b. 1863 - d. 19..)
1911 - 1914                Pierre Jean Henri Didelot          (b. 1870 - d. 19..)
                             (1st time)
1914 - 1916                Fernand Ernest Lévecque
1916                       Pierre Jean Henri Didelot          (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
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 Charles Jean Chanel     (b. 1882 - d. 1943)
1926 - 1927                Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly
1927                       François 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 Joseph Bouge (acting)        (b. 1878 - d. 1960)
1933 - 1935                Julien Georges Lamy
 2 Jun 1935 - 1936         Max de Masson de Saint-Félix       (d. 1939)
1936                       Pierre Tap
1936 - 1938                René Veber (1st time)
1938 - 1942                Robert Paul Chot-Plassot
1942 - 18 Mar 1943         René Veber (2nd time)
1943 - 1944                Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne        (b. 1901 - d. 1952)
1944 - 1946                Jules Eucher Surlemont             (b. 1897 - d. 1983)
1946                       Jean Pezet
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic)
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 Julien Émile Le Direach       (b. 1924)
10 Feb 1980 - 27 Jul 1981  Antoine Carli                      (b. 1924)
27 Jul 1981 - 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. 1950)
 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)

Presidents of the General Council (Conseil général)
1947 - 1949                Vermont Polycarpe                  (b. 1908 - d. 1958)
1949 - 1955                Auguste Boudinot
1955 - 1956                Eudoxie Vérin                      (b. 1902 - d. 1975)
1956 - 1958                Roland Barrat                      (b. 1901 - d. 1966)
1958 - 1965                Joseph Symphorien
1965 - 1967                Henri Plenet
1967 - 1970                Jules Harmois                      (b. 1900 - d. 1976)
1970 - 1973                Léopold Héder                      (b. 1918 - d. 1978)  PS
1973 - 1979                Claude Ho-A-Chuck                                       UDF
1979 - 1982                Emmanuel Bellony                                        RPR
1982 - 1983                Georges Othily                     (b. 1944)            PS
1983 - Mar 1994            Elie Castor                        (b. 1943 - d. 1996)  UDF
Mar 1994 - 30 Mar 1998     Stéphan Phinera-Horth                                   PSG
30 Mar 1998 - 26 Mar 2001  André Lecante                      (b. 1941?)           ADG
26 Mar 2001 -  4 Apr 2004  Joseph Ho-Ten-You                  (b. 1942)            ADG
 4 Apr 2004 - 20 Mar 2008  Pierre Désert                      (b. 1944)            DVG
20 Mar 2008 -              Alain Tien-Long                    (b. 1963)            DVG

Presidents of the Regional Council of Guyane (Conseil régional)
1974 - 1980                Serge Patient                      (b. 1934)            UDF
1980 - 1982                Jacques Lony                       (d. ....)
1982 - 29 Mar 1992         Georges Othily                     (s.a.)               PS
29 Mar 1992 -              Antoine Karam                      (b. 1950)            PS

            FTTLG  Flag

Party abbreviations: ADG = Action Démocratique Guyanaise (Guianese Democratic Action);
DVG = Divers Gauche (Various Left parties); FDG = Forces Démocratiques de la Guyane (Guiana Democratic Forces); FTTLG = Front Tam-Tam de Libération de la Guyane (Tam-Tam Front for the Liberation of Guiana, independentist); PNPG = Parti National Populaire Guyanais (National Popular Party of Guiana); PS = Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party -may be a subset of PSG); PSG = Parti Socialiste de Guyanais (Guianese Socialist Party); UDS = Union des Démocrates Sociaux (Union of Social Democrats -umbrella group of RPR and UDF); UMP = Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement [to 17 Nov 2002: Union for the Presidential Majority], conservative, est. 23 Apr 2002 from RPR, DL and the main part of UDF);
- Former parties: RPR = Rassemblement Pour la République (Rally for the Republic, Gaulist, conservative, 1976-2002 successor to UDR, merged into UMP); UDF = Union pour la Démocratie Française (Union for French Democracy, main part joins UMP 2002)

 6 Jul 1930 - 19 Mar 1946  French Guiana divided into two territories;
                             French Guiana (Cayenne and the Atlantic coast)
                             and Inini Territory (inland area).

Governors
 6 Jul 1930 - 19 Mar 1946  the governors of French Guyana