Guadeloupe
 

Unofficial Local Flag                  Regional Council Flag                  General Council Flag   Map of Guadeloupe Hear National Anthem "La Marseillaise" Text of National Anthem Constitution  (28 Sep 1958) Capital: Basse-Terre (Le Moule 1635-1643) Currency: Euro (EUR); to 1 Jan 2002 French Franc (FRF) National Holiday: 14 Jul (1789) Bastille Day --------------------------------------- Local Holiday: 27 May (1848) Slavery Abolition Day Population: 441,124 (2008) GDP: $9.74 billion (2006) Exports: $288 million (2006) Imports: $3.01 billion (2006)  Ethnic groups: Creole (mulatto) 76.7%, black 10%, Guadeloupe Mestizo (French-East Asian) 10%, white 2%, East Indian, Lebanese, Chinese and other 1.3% (2000) Total Active French Armed Forces: 1,250 (2006) (includes forces in Martinique) Defense is the Responsibility of France  Merchant marine: None (2008) Religions: Roman Catholic 86.4%, Jehovah's Witness 3.9%, Protestant 4.5%, atheist/nonreligious 3.1%, other 2.1% (2000) International Organizations/Treaties: ACS (associate), UPU, WFTU  Guadeloupe Index Chronology 14 Nov 1493                Discovered & claimed for Spain by Columbus, named                              Isla de Santa María de Guadalupe de Extremadura. 28 Jun 1635                French colony (under the Compagnie des Îles de                              l'Amérique to 1649). 1635 - Apr 1759            Part of the French Antilles colony                               (see Martinique). 1664 - 1674                Administered by the Compagnie des Indies                               Occidentales. 1674                       French crown colony. 22 Apr 1759 - Jun 1763     British occupation. 1768 - 1775                Part of the French Antilles colony                               (see Martinique). 20 Apr 1794 -  7 Jun 1794  British occupation. 25 Oct 1797 - 19 Apr 1801  Organized as a département of France.  6 Feb 1810 -  7 Dec 1814  British occupation.  3 Mar 1813 - 30 May 1814  Ceded to Sweden by France. 10 Aug 1815 - 25 Jul 1816  British occupation. 14 Sep 1939 - 1943         Subordinated to High Commissioner and Commander                              of the Theater Atlantic West (see Martinique). 16 Jun 1940 - 14 Jul 1943  Administration loyal to Vichy France                              (from 14 Jul 1943, under Free French). 19 Mar 1946                French overseas département. 28 Mar 2003                French overseas region.  7 Dec 2003                Referendum on status change to collectivité                              territoriale defeated by 72.98%. 22 Feb 2007                Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin separate                              overseas collectivités. Marie-Galante (1649-1729,1792-94)

Governors
28 Jun 1635 -  4 Dec 1635  Jean Duplessis, sieur d'Ossonville (d. 1635)
1635 - 1640                Charles Liènard de l'Olive
1640 - 1643                Jean Aubert
1643 - 1664                Charles Houël, sieur de Petit-Pré
1664 - 1669                Claude François du Lion
1669 - 1677                Charles François du Lion           (d. 1677)
1677                       de Baas de l'Herpinière
                             (may not have served)
1677 - 1694                Pierre Hencelin                    (d. 1694)
1695 - 1702                Charles Auger                      (b. c.1634 - d. 1705)
1703 - 1705                Joseph d'Honon de Galiffet         (b. 16.. - d. 1706)
1702 - 1705                Bonaventure-François de Boisfermé  (b. 1661 - d. 1722)      
                             (acting for absent Galiffet)
1705 - 1717                Robert Cloche de la Malmaison      (d. 1717)
1717                       François, marquis de Pas de
                             Feuquières
1717 - 18 Mar 1718         Savinien Michel Lagarrigue de      (b. 1660 - d. 1722)
                             Savigny
1719 - 1727                Charles Gabriel Vaultier de
                             Moyencourt
21 Oct 1727 - 27 Jul 1734  Robert Giraud du Poyet             (b. 1665 - d. 1740)
1734 - 1737                Charles de Brunier, marquis de     (d. 1746)
                             Larnage 
17 Oct 1737 - 1753         Gabriel d'Erchigny de Clieu        (b. 1687 - d. 1774)
1753 - 1757                Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau
15 Jan 1757 - 22 Apr 1759  Charles François Emmanuel Nadeau   (b. 1703 - d. 1786)
                             du Treil
Apr 1759 - 1760            Byam Crump
1760 - 1763                Campbell Dalrymple                 (b. 1716 - d. 1764)
1763 - 24 Jun 1764         François Charles de Bourlamaque    (b. 1716 - d. 1764)
1764 - 1765                Édouard de Copley
20 Mar 1765 - 29 Nov 1768  Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos           (b. 1714 - d. 17..)
1768 - 1769                Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès    (b. 1730 - d. 1800)
                             de Malartic
1769 - 1771                François Claude Amour du Chariol,  (b. 1739 - d. 1800)
                             marquis de Bouillé 
1771 - 1773                Louis François de Dion
1773 - 1776                Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly
1776 - 1782                Bache Elzéar Alexandre, comte      (b. 1720 - d. 1793)
                             d'Arbaud de Jouques
1782 - 1783                Claude Charles de Marillac,        (b. 1731 - d. ....)
                             vicomte de Damas
1783 - 1784                Beaumé de la Saulais
1784 - 25 Jul 1792         Charles François de Clugny de      (d. 1792) 
                             Thénisey 
1792 - 1793                René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot
                             (interim)
Commissioners
 5 Jan 1793 - 18 Mar 1793  Jean Baptiste Raimond Lacrosse     (b. 1765 - d. 1829) 
                             (provisional)
18 Mar 1793 - 20 Apr 1794  Georges Henri Victor Collot        (b. 1750 - d. 1805)
Governor
20 Apr 1794 -  3 Jun 1794  Thomas Dundas                      (b. 1750 - d. 1794)
Commissioners
 7 Jun 1794 -  6 Jan 1795  Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues        (b. 1762 - d. 1826)
 6 Jan 1795 - Jan 1796     Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues        (s.a.)
                           + Gaspard Goyrand (to Jun 1795)
                           + Alexandre Lebas
Agents (of the French Executive Directory)
Jan 1796 - 22 Nov 1798     Jean Baptiste Victor Hugues        (s.a.)
                           + Alexandre Lebas
22 Nov 1798 -  3 Oct 1799  Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux    (b. 1767 - d. 1849)
 3 Oct 1799 - 11 Dec 1799  Paris (provisional)
11 Dec 1799 - 30 May 1801  Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin      (b. 1762 - d. 1828)
                           + René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle  (b. 1751 - d. 1800)
                             (to 30 Dec 1800)
                           + Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc,       (b. 1751 - d. 1828)
                              comte de Laveaux (to 28 Feb 1800) 
                           + Bresseau (from 28 Feb 1800)
Captains-general
30 May 1801 - 14 May 1802  Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse     (s.a.)
                             (1st time) 
24 Oct 1801 -  6 May 1802  Magloire Pélage                    (b. 1766 - d. 1810)
                            (president of provisional council
                             of government, in rebellion)
14 May 1802 -  3 Sep 1802  Antoine Richepance                 (b. 1770 - d. 1802)
 4 Aug 1802 -  8 May 1803  Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse     (s.a.)
                             (2nd time) 
                             (acting for Richepance to 3 Sep 1802)
 8 May 1803 -  6 Feb 1810  Manuel Louis Jean Augustin Ernouf  (b. 1753 - d. 1827)
Governors
1810 - 26 Jun 1813         Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis     (b. 1758 - d. 1832)
                             Cochrane
26 Jun 1813 - Dec 1814     John Skinner                       (b. c.1750 - d. 1827)
12 Dec 1814 - 10 Aug 1815  Charles Alexandre Léon Durand,     (b. 1761 - d. 1848)
                             comte de Linois
10 Aug 1815 - 25 Jul 1816  Sir James Leith                    (b. 1763 - d. 1816)
25 Jul 1816 - 1823         Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy
1823 - 1826                Louis Léon Jacob                   (b. 1768 - d. 1854)
31 May 1826 - 1830         Jean Julien Angot des Rotours      (b. 1773 - d. 1844)
31 Jan 1830 -  8 Jul 1831  Louis François Vatable             (b. 1773 - d. 1853)
 1 Mar 1831 - 20 Jun 1837  René Arnous des Saulsays           (b. 1778 - d. 18..)
1837 - 1841                Louis Jean Guillaume Jubelin       (b. 1787 - d. 1860) 
1841 -  7 Jun 1845         Jean Baptiste Marie Augustin       (b. 1786 - d. 1845)
                             Gourbeyre
24 Aug 1845 -  5 Jun 1848  Jean-François Layrle               (b. 1791 - d. 1881)
 5 Jun 1848 - 1848         Alexandre Gatine (acting)          (b. 1805 - d. 1864)
                             (Commissioner-general)
1848 - 1849                Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre          (b. 1800 - d. 1864)
                             (acting to 1849)
 9 Sep 1849 - 1851         Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron     (b. 1796 - d. 1872)
1851                       Chaumont (acting)
15 Sep 1851 - 1853         Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul          (b. 1798 - d. ....)
30 Sep 1853 - 1856         Philibert Augustin Bonfils
1856 - 1857                Guillet (acting)
Mar 1857 - Apr 1859        Philippe Victor Touchard           (b. 1810 - d. 1879)
1859 - Jan 1860            Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps     (b. 1813 - d. 1872)
Jan 1860 - 1864            Charles Victor Frébault            (b. 1813 - d. 1888)
1864                       Desmazes (acting)
1864 - 1870                Louis Hippolyte de Lormel
1870 - 1880                Gabriel Couturier 
1880                       Mazé (acting)
1880 - 1886                Léonce Laugier                     (b. 1829 - d. ....)
1886                       Sainte-Luce (acting)
1886 - 1891                Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher  (b. 1837 - d. 1896)
1891 - 1894                Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouët        (b. 1844 - d. 1933)
1894 - 1895                Noël Pardon
1895 - 1901                Delphino Moracchini                (b. 1846 - d. 1903)
 6 Jul 1901 - 1903         Martial Henri Merlin               (b. 1860 - d. 1935)
1903 - 1905                Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère     (b. 1847 - d. 19..)
14 Mar 1905 - Apr 1906     Léon Jules Pol Boulloche           (b. 1855 - d. 19..)
21 Jul 1907 - 29 Jun 1908  Victor Marie Louis Ballot          (b. 1853 - d. 1939)
1909 - 1911                Henri François Charles Cor
1911 - 1913                Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne         (b. 1849 - d. 19..)
1913 - 1917                Émile Joseph Merwart               (b. 1869 - d. 1960)
1917 - 1920                Jules Maurice Gourbeil
1920 - 1924                Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
1924                       Jocelyn Robert
1924 - 1926                Maurice Beurnier                   (b. 1878 - d. 19..)
24 Jun 1926 -  2 Apr 1927  Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis    (b. 1871 - d. 1954)
1929 - 1931                Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier   (b. 1872 - d. 1955)
1931 - 1934                Alphonse Paul Albert Choteau       (d. 1936)
 9 May 1933 - 25 Oct 1936  Joseph-Louis Bouge                 (b. 1878 - d. 1960)
24 Oct 1936 - 26 Jul 1938  Adolphe Félix Sylvestre Éboué      (b. 1884 - d. 1944)
29 Nov 1938 - 21 Feb 1940  Marie François Julien Pierre-Alype (b. 1886 - d. 1956)
30 Apr 1940 - 15 Jul 1943  Constant Louis Sylvain Sorin       (b. 1901 - d. 1970)
Jul 1943 - Aug 1943        Perrier (acting)
Aug 1943 - 1946            Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut      (b. 1900)
30 Apr 1946 - 12 Oct 1947  Ernest Maurice de Nattes           (b. 1908)
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic; and
from 9 Jul 2007 also state representative in Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin)
26 Dec 1947 - 24 Nov 1950  Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie      (b. 1908 - d. 1983)
                             Philipson 
16 Jan 1951 - 18 May 1954  Gaston Villéger                    (b. 1904 - d. ....)
18 May 1954 - 18 Dec 1955  Jacques Ravail                     (b. 1907 - d. 1971)
22 Dec 1955 -  6 Mar 1958  Guy Malines                        (b. 1909 - d. 1984)
                             (acting to 22 May 1956)
 6 Mar 1958 -  1 Oct 1960  Jean-Pierre Abeille                (b. 1907 - d. 1981)
 1 Oct 1960 -  1 Aug 1965  Albert Bonhomme                    (b. 1913 - d. 1975)
 1 Aug 1965 - 12 Jul 1967  Pierre Bolotte                     (b. 1921)
16 Aug 1967 - 16 Dec 1969  Jean Deleplanque                   (b. 1919)
16 Dec 1969 -  1 Jul 1973  Pierre Mathieu Brunon              (b. 1922)
12 Jul 1973 - 15 Nov 1975  Jacques Jean Louis Le Cornec       (b. 1927)
15 Nov 1975 - 15 Oct 1978  Jean-Claude Aurousseau             (b. 1929)
15 Oct 1978 - 28 Feb 1982  Guy Maillard                       (b. 1930)
28 Feb 1982 - 13 Feb 1984  Robert Miguet                      (b. 1929)
Feb 1984 - Apr 1986        Maurice Saborin                    (b. 1933)
 9 Apr 1986 -  4 Nov 1987  Yves Bonnet                        (b. 1935)
 4 Nov 1987 - Nov 1989     Bernard Sarazin
Nov 1989 - 18 Jul 1991     Jean-Paul Proust                   (b. 1940)
31 Jul 1991 -  6 Oct 1993  Franck Perriez                     (b. 1944)
 6 Oct 1993 - 21 Nov 1994  Alain Frouté                       (b. 1939)
21 Nov 1994 - 16 Oct 1996  Michel Diefenbacher                (b. 1947)
16 Oct 1996 - 12 Nov 1996  Dominique Vian (1st time) (acting) (b. 1944)
12 Nov 1996 - 16 Aug 1999  Jean Fedini                        (b. 1938)
16 Aug 1999 -  6 Aug 2002  Jean-François Carenco              (b. 1952)
 6 Aug 2002 - 17 Jul 2004  Dominique Vian (2nd time)          (s.a.)
17 Jul 2004 - 17 Aug 2004  Denis Labbé (acting)               (b. 1952)
17 Aug 2004 - 12 Jun 2006  Paul Girot de Langlade             (b. 1946)
12 Jun 2006 - 28 Oct 2007  Jean-Jacques Brot                  (b. 1956)
28 Oct 2007 -  5 Nov 2007  Yvon Alain (acting)                (b. 1955)
 5 Nov 2007 - Nov 2008     Emmanuel Berthier                  (b. 1957)
 8 Dec 2008 -              Nicolas Desforges                  (b. 1955)

Intendants
1763 - 1766                Louis de Thomassin de Peynier      (b. 1705 - d. 1794)
1766 - 1768                Jean-Louis-Honoré d'Hesmivy,
                             seigneur de Moissac
1768 - 1775                Post abolished
Ordonnateur (subordinated to the Intendants on Martinique)
1775 - 1780                Louis de Thomassin de Peynier      (s.a.)
1780 - 1781                Antoine-Bernard d'Eu de Montenoix
1781 - 1786                Claude-Nicolas Fayolle
1786 - 1789                Eugène-Jean-Stanislas Foullon
                             d'Ecotiers
1789 - 1790                Pierre Iger (acting)
1790 - 1814                Post abolished
Intendants
13 Jun 1814 - May 1816     Jean-François-César de Guilhermy   (b. 1761 - d. 1829)
May 1816 - 13 Mar 1818     Eugène-Jean-Stanislas Foullon
                             d'Ecotiers
Presidents of the General Council (Conseil général)
(holding executive power from 2 Mar 1982)
17 Nov 1945 - 12 Oct 1949  Joseph Pitat                       (b. 1908 - d. 1969)  SFIO
12 Oct 1949 - 19 Sep 1950  Furcie Tirolien                    (b. 1886 - d. 1965)  RPF
19 Sep 1950 - 17 Oct 1951  Henri Rinaldo (1st time)           (b. 1909 - d. 1985)  MSG
17 Oct 1951 - 17 Nov 1952  Omer Ninine
17 Nov 1952 - 1953         Adrien Bougarel (1st time)
1953 - 14 Nov 1954         Council dissolved
14 Nov 1954 - 20 Nov 1956  René Toribio                       (b. 1912 - d. 1990)  SFIO
20 Nov 1956 -  2 Dec 1957  Adrien Bougarel (2nd time)
 2 Dec 1957 -  3 Oct 1973  Henri Rinaldo (2nd time)           (s.a.)
 3 Oct 1973 - 17 Mar 1976  Lucien Bernier (1st time)          (b. 1914 - d. 1989)  PS
17 Mar 1976 - 28 Mar 1979  Georges Dagonia                    (b. 1930 - d. 2007)  PS
28 Mar 1979 - 24 Mar 1982  Lucien Bernier (2nd time)          (s.a.)               PS/UDF
24 Mar 1982 - 25 Mar 1985  Lucette Michaux-Chevry (f)         (b. 1929)            RPR
25 Mar 1985 - 27 Mar 1998  Dominique Larifla                  (b. 1936)            PS
27 Mar 1998 - 23 Mar 2001  Marcellin Lubeth                   (b. 1922)            FRUI.G
23 Mar 2001 -              Jacques Gillot                     (b. 1948)            GUSR

Presidents of the Regional Council (Conseil régional)
1974 - 1980                Pierre Mathieu
1980 - 1981                Robert Pentier
1981 - 1982                Marcel Esdras                      (b. 1927 - d. 1988)  UDF
1981 - 1983                Marcel Gargar                      (b. 1911 - d. 2004)  PC
Feb 1983 - Mar 1986        José Moustache                     (b. 1932)            RPR
Mar 1986 - 29 Mar 1992     Félix Proto                                             PS
29 Mar 1992 -  2 Apr 2004  Lucette Michaux-Chevry (f)         (s.a.)               RPR;2002 UMP
 2 Apr 2004 -              Victorin Lurel                     (b. 1951)            PS

 3 Nov 1493                Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher Columbus,
                             named Santa Maria la Galante.
 8 Nov 1648                Annexed by France, incorporated into Guadeloupe.
 4 Sep 1649 - 1653         Leased by the King of France to Jacques de Boisseret;
                             de Boisseret's widow formally cedes family's claim in 1660.
1691 - 1696                Abandoned.
26 May 1759 - 1763         British occupation.
 1 Nov 1792                Republican inhabitants of Marie-Galante proclaim their
                             independence from still royalist Guadeloupe while affirming
                             their attachment to the new French republic.
20 Apr 1794                Self-government ended by British occupation.

Governors
 4 Sep 1649 - 1653         Jacques de Boisseret               (d. 1653)
1670 - 1677                marquis de Témericourt             (d. 1677)
1679 - 1686                Charles-François d'Angennes,
                             marquis de Maintenon
 1 Jan 1686 - 1695         Charles Auger
1695 - 1696                de Laurière                        (d. 1696)
1696 - 1702                Bonaventure-François de Boisfermé  (b. 1661 - d. 1722)
1725 - 1729                Pierre Le Bègue                    (d. 1729)
1759 - 1763                Francis Maclean                    (b. 1717? - d. 1781)
President of the Commission
 1 Nov 1792 - 20 Apr 1794  Deshaies