Martinique
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Constitution (28 Sep 1958)
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Capital: Fort-de-France (Saint-Pierre 1635-8 May 1902)
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Currency: Euro (EUR); to 1 Jan 2002 French Franc (FRF)
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National Holiday: 14 Jul (1789)
Bastille Day
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Local Holiday: 22 May (1848)
Slavery Abolition Day
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Population: 400,229 (2007)
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GDP: $6.11 billion (2003)
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Exports: $51.2 million (2002) Imports: $361 million (2002)
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Ethnic groups: African and African-white-Indian mixture 93.4%, French white 3%, East Indian 1.9%, Chinese and other 1.7% (2000)
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Total French Troops: 4,100 (2004) Defense is the Responsibility of France Merchant marine: None (2006)
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Religions: Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant
10.5%, Muslim 0.5%, Hindu 0.5%, other 3.5% (1997)
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Organizations/Treaties: UPU, WFTU |
Martinique Index
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Chronology
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15 Jun 1502
Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher
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Columbus, named Isla Martinica (no settlement).
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1625
Claimed by France.
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15 Sep 1635
French colony (under the Compagnie des Îles
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de l'Amérique to 1650).
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1628 - 1762
Part of the French Antilles (Grenada [from 1649],
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Guadeloupe [from 1635], Martinique [from 1635],
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Saint-Christophe [to 1702], Saint-Barthélemy
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[from 1648], Saint-Martin [from 1648],
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and Saint-Croix [1650-1733]).
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1650 - 1664
Granted to the Dyel du Parquet family.
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1664 - 1674
Under the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales.
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1674
French crown colony.
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13 Feb 1762 - 1763
British occupation.
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1768 - 1783
Part of the French Antilles.
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22 May 1794 - Sep 1802 British occupation.
- 25 Oct 1797 - 19 Apr 1801 Nominally organized as a département
of France
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(not effected because of British occupation).
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21 Feb 1809 - 8 Oct 1814 British occupation.
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14 Sep 1939 - Sep 1943 French
Possessions in the Americas (French Guiana,
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Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint-Pierre et
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Miquelon) were regrouped as the Theater Atlantic
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West, whose head held both administrative and
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military authority over local administrators.
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16 Jun 1940 - 13 Jul 1943 Administration loyal to Vichy France
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(from 13 Jul 1943, Free French).
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19 Mar 1946
French overseas département.
- 28 Mar 2003 French overseas region.
- 7 Dec 2003 Referendum on status change to collectivité
- territoriale defeated by 50.48%.
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French Antilles (1628-1762,1768-75)
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French Possessions
in the Americas (1939-1943)
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French Antilles
Governors-general
1628 - Dec 1636
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc
(b. 1585 - d. 1636)
Dec 1636 - 1638
sieur du Halde (acting)
1638 - Feb 1639
René de Béculat de La Grange-
Fromenteau
Feb 1639 - Nov 1645 Philippe
de Longvilliers, (d. 1660)
chevalier de Poincy (1st time)
Nov 1645 - Jan 1647 Noël
Patrocles de Thoisy
Jan 1647 - Apr 1660 Philippe
de Longvilliers, (s.a.)
chevalier de Poincy (2nd time)
Apr 1660 - May 1664 Vacant
May 1664 - Feb 1665 Alexandre
de Prouville, marquis
de Tracy
Feb 1665 - Oct 1666 sieur
de Chambray (acting)
Oct 1666 - Feb 1669 Antoine
Lefebvre de la Barre
Feb 1669 - 1677
Jean-Charles de Baas-Castelmore (d. 1677)
1677
sieur Jolinet (acting)
1677 - Feb 1683
Charles de La Roche-Courbon, (b. 1622 - d.
1696)
comte de Blénac (1st time)
Feb 1683 - Jun 1684 Claude
de Roux de Saint-Laurent,
chevalier de Saint-Laurent
(acting)
Jun 1684 - Feb 1691 Charles
de La Roche-Courbon, (s.a.)
comte de Blénac (2nd time)
Feb 1691 - Jul 1691 François
d'Alesso, marquis (d. 1691)
d'Éragny (acting)
Jul 1691 - Nov 1691 Charles
de Peychpeyrou-Comminge
de Guitaut, chevalier de Guitaud
(2nd time)(acting)
Nov 1691 - Jun 1696 Charles
de La Roche-Courbon, (s.a.)
comte de Blénac (3rd time)
1696 - 1700
Thomas-Claude Renart de
(b. 1642 - d. 1700)
Fuchsamberg, marquis d'Amblimont
1700 - 1701
Charles de Peychpeyrou-Comminge
de Guitaut, chevalier de Guitaud
(2nd time)
1701 - Oct 1701
Charles d'Esnots de Forbonest
1701 - May 1702
Charles de Peychpeyrou-Comminge
de Guitaut, chevalier de Guitaud
(3rdtime)
1702 - 1703
Nicholas de Gabaret (1st time) (d. 1712)
1703 - 1709
Charles-Francois de Machault
de Bellemont
1709 - 1710
Nicholas de Gabaret (2nd time) (s.a.)
1710 - Oct 1713
Raimond Balthazar Phélipeaux, (d. 1713)
sieur du Verger
1713 - 1715
Hemon Coinrad de La Malmaison
(interim)
1715 - 1717
Abraham de Belébat de Duquesne-
Cuitton
1717
Antoine d'Arcy de la Varenne (d. 1732)
(interim)
1717 - 1727
Isaac de Pas, marquis de
Feuquières
1728 - 1745
Jean-Charles de Bochart,
(d. 1754)
sieur de Champigny
1744 - 1750
Charles de Tubières de Pastel de (d. 1749)
Levoy de Grimoire, marquis de
Caylus
1750 - 1757
Maximin, marquis de Bompar (b.
1698 - d. 1773)
1757 - 1761
François Beauharnais de Beaumont, (b. 1714 - d. 1800)
marquis de La Ferté
1761 - 1762
Louis-Charles Le Vassor de (b.
1710 - d. 1781)
La Touche, sieur de Tréville
1762 - 1768
Vacant
1768 - May 1777
Robert d'Argout
(d. 1780)
Jul 1777 - Apr 1783 François
Claude Amour du Chariol, (b. 1739 - d. 1800)
marquis de Bouillé
Martinique
Governors (26 May 1802 - 10 Sep 1817, captains-general)
1635
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc
(b. 1585 - d. 1636)
1635 - 1636
Jean Du Pont
1636 - 1646
Jacques Dyel du Parquet (1st time)(d. 1658)
1646 - 1647
Jérôme du Sarrat, sieur de la
Pierrière (interim)
1647 - 1658
Jacques Dyel du Parquet (2nd time)(s.a.)
1658 - 1659
Marie Bonnard du Parquet (f) (d. 1659)
Sep 1659 - 1662
Adrien Dyel du Parquet, sieur de (d. 1662)
Vaudroques
1662 - 1663
Médéric Roolle, sieur de
Goursolas
1663 - 1665
Adrien Jacques Dyel, sieur
de Clermont
Feb 1665 - 1669
Robert le Fichot des Friches,
sieur de Clodoré
1669 - 1670
François Roolle de Loubière
1670 - 1679
Antoine André de Sainte-Marthe de
Lalande, chevalier de Sainte-
Marthe
1680 - 1687
Jacques de Chambly
Feb 1689 - 31 Mar 1689 Claude de Roux de
Saint-Laurent, (d. 1689)
chevalier de Saint-Laurent
(interim)
1689 - 1711
Nicolas de Gabaret
(b. 16.. - d. 1712)
1711 - 1716
Jean-Pierre de Charritte
(b. 1658 - d. 1723)
1716
marquis du Quesne
7 Jan 1717 - 23 May 1717 Antoine d'Arcy de la Varenne
(b. 16.. - d. 1732)
1717 - 1721
de Hurault
1721 - 1728
Jean-Charles de Bochart,
(d. 1754)
sieur de Champigny
1728 - 1737
François Louis de Brach
(b. 1668 - d. 1737)
1737 - 1742
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1742 - 1744
André Martin, sieur de Pointesable (d. 1750)
1744 - 12 May 1750
Charles de Tubières de Pastel de (b. 1698 - d. 1750?)
Levoy de Grimoire, marquis de
Caylus
1750 - 1752
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1752
Maximin, marquis de Bompar
(b. 1698 - d. 1773)
1752 - 1757
Rouillé de Rocourt
1757 - 7 Feb 1761
François Beauharnais de Beaumont, (b. 1714 - d. 1800)
marquis de La Ferté Beauharnais
1761 - 13 Feb 1762
Louis Le Vassor de La Touche
de Tréville
(b. 1710 - d. 1781)
1762 - 1763
William Rufane
Jan 1763 - Apr 1764 François
Louis de Salignac, (b. 1722 -
d. 1764)
marquis de Fénélon
25 Jan 1765 - 1772
Victor Thérèse Charpentier,
(b. 1731 - d. 1776)
comte d'Ennery
9 Mar 1772 - 15 Mar 1776 Vital Auguste, marquis de
(b. 1715 - d. ....)
Grégoire, comte de Nozières
15 Mar 1776 - May 1777 Robert d'Argout
(b. 1724 - d. 1780)
May 1777 - Mar 1783 François
Claude Amour du Chariol, (b. 1739 - d. 1800)
marquis de Bouillé
Mar 1783 - Mar 1791 Claude
Charles de Marillac, (b. 1731
- d. ....)
vicomte de Damas
Jul 1789 - Apr 1790 Charles
Joseph Hyacinthe du (b. 1734
- d. 1827)
Houx, marquis de Vioménil
(acting for Damas)
12 Mar 1791 - 3 Jul 1792 Jean Pierre Antoine, comte
de (b. 1727 - d. 1813)
Béhague
Jan 1793 - 22 May 1794 Donatien Marie Joseph
de Vimeur, (b. 1755 - d. 1813)
comte de Rochambeau
1794
Robert Prescott
(b. 1725 - d. 1816)
1794 - 1795
John Vaughan
(b. 1731 - d. 1795)
1795 - 1796
Sir Robert Shore Milnes
(b. 1746 - d. 1837)
1796 - 1802
William Keppel
(b. 17.. - d. 1834)
Sep 1802 - 21 Feb 1809 Louis Thomas Villaret
de Joyeuse (b. 1747 - d. 1812)
21 Feb 1809 - 1809
George Beckwith
(b. 1753 - d. 1823)
10 Jun 1809 - 1812
John Broderick
(b. 1765 - d. 1842)
1812 - 1814
Charles Wale
(b. 1763 - d. 1845)
1814
Lindsay
1814 - 1818
Pierre René Marie, comte de
(b. 1741 - d. 1819)
Vaugiraud
1818 - 1826
François Xavier, comte de Donzelot (b. 1764 - d. 1843)
1826 - 1829
François Marie Michel de Bouillé (b. 1779 - d.
1853)
1829 - 1830
Louis Henri de Saulces de
(b. 1777 - d. 1840)
Freycinet
1830 - 1834
Jean Henri Joseph Dupôtet
(b. 1777 - d. 1852)
1834 - 1836
Emmanuel Halgan
(b. 1771 - d. 1852)
1836 - Jan 1838
Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau (b. 1788 - d. 1855)
Jan 1838 - Jul 1838 Claude
Rostoland (1st time) (b. 1790
- d. 1848)
(acting)
1838 - 1840
Alphonse Louis Théodore de Mogès (b. 1796 - d.
1850)
1840 - 1844
Étienne Henri Mengin du Valdailly (b. 1778 - d. 1865)
1844 - Mar 1848
Pierre Louis Aimé Mathieu
Mar 1848 - 3 Jun 1848 Claude Rostoland
(2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
3 Jun 1848 - Nov 1848 François
Auguste Perrinon
(b. 1812 - d. 1861)
1848 - 1851
Armand Joseph Bruat
(b. 1796 - d. 1855)
11 Apr 1851 - 1853
Auguste Napoléon Vaillant
1853
Jacques Brunot (acting)
15 Jun 1853 - Sep 1856 Louis Henri de Gueydon
(b. 1809 - d. 1886)
1856
Louis André Lagrange (1st time) (d. 1861)
(acting)
1856 - 1859
Armand Louis Joseph Denis,
comte Fitte de Soucy
1859
Louis André Lagrange (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
1859 - 1864
Antoine Marie Ferdinand de
(b. 1801 - d. 1867)
Maussion de Candé
1864 - 1867
François Théodore de Lapelin
(b. 1812 - d. 1888)
1867
André César Vérand (acting)
(b. 1805 - d. 1870)
1867 - 1869
Louis Auguste Bertier
1869 - 1870
Marie Gabriel Couturier (acting)
1870 - 1871
Charles Louis Constant Menche
de Loisne
1871
Octave Bernard Gilbert-Pierre (b.
1817 - d. ....)
(acting)
1871 - 1874
Georges Charles Cloué
(b. 1817 - d. 1889)
1874
François Charles Michaux (acting)
1875 - 1877
Thomas Louis Kirkland Le Normant (b. 1813 - d. 1895)
de Kergrist
1877 - 1879
Marie Bruno Ferdinand Grasset (b. 1817 -
d. ....)
1879
Charles Alexandre Lacouture
(b. 1829 - d. 1917)
(acting)
1879 - 1881
Hyacinthe Laurent Théophile Aube (b. 1826 - d. 1890)
1881
Moreau (acting)
1881 - 1887
Vincent Gaëtan Allègre
(b. 1835 - d. 1899)
1887
Coridon (acting)
1887 - 1889
Louis Albert Grodet
(b. 1853 - d. 1933)
1889 - 1892
Germain Casse
(b. 1837 - d. 1900)
1892 - 1895
Delphino Moracchini
(b. 1846 - d. 1903)
1895 - 1898
Noël Pardon
1898 - 1901
Marie Louis Gustave Gabrié
(b. 1852 - d. 19..)
16 Jul 1901 - 8 May 1902 Louis Mouttet
(b. 1587 - d. 1902)
May 1902 - 1902
Georges Lhuerre (acting)
1902 - 1904
Jean Baptiste Philémon Lemaire (b. 1856
- d. 1932)
1904 - 1907
Louis Alphonse Bonhoure
(b. 1864 - d. 1909)
1907 - 1908
Charles Louis Lepreux
(b. 1856 - d. 1930)
1908 - 1913
Fernand Foureau
(b. 1850 - d. 1914)
1913 - 1914
Joseph Henri Alfred Vacher
(b. 1862 - d. 19..)
1914 - 1915
Georges Virgile Poulet
1915 - 1920
Camille Lucien Xavier Guy
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
1920 - 1921
Jules Maurice Gourbeil
1921 - 1923
Fernand Ernest Levecque
(b. 1852 - d. 19..)
1923 - 1926
Henri Marius Richard
1926 - 1928
Robert Paul Marie de Guise
14 Feb 1928 - 15 Jul 1932 Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis (b. 1871 - d. 1954)
(1st time)
15 Jul 1932 - 23 Aug 1932 Adolphe Félix Sylvestre
Éboué (b. 1884 - d. 1944)
(1st time) (acting) 23 Aug 1932 - 4 Jun 1933 Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
4 Jun 1933 - 7 Jan 1934 Adolphe Félix
Sylvestre Éboué (s.a.)
(1st time)(acting)
7 Jan 1934 - 1934
Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis (s.a.)
(3rd time)
1934
René Veber
1934 - 1935
Matteo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa (b. 1876 - d. 19..)
1935 - 1936
Louis Jacques Eugène Fousset
1936
Marie Marc Georges Pelicier
22 Oct 1936 - 7 Jan 1938 Jean-Baptiste Alberti
(b. 1881 - d. 1938)
1938
Léopold Arthur André Allys (acting)(b. 1888 - d. 1968)
1938 - 1939
Maurice Xavier Joseph Dechartre
1939 - 1940
Georges Aimé Spitz
(b. 1881 - d. 1959)
1940 - Mar 1941
Louis Henri François Denis
Bressoles
Mar 1941 - Jul 1943 Yves
Maurice Nicol
(b. 1887 - d. 1954)
14 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1944 Louis Georges André Ponton
(b. 1906 - d. 1944)
(acting to 17 Sep 1943)
1944 - Jan 1945
Antoine Marie Angelini
14 Jan 1945 - 1946
Georges Hubert Parisot
(b. 1887 - d. 1969)
1946 - 1947
Georges Louis Joseph Orselli
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988, commissioners of the
republic)
18 Jul 1947 - 27 Jul 1950 Pierre Albert Trouillé
(b. 1907 - d. 1986)
25 Aug 1950 - 1 Nov 1954 Christian Robert Roger Laigret
(b. 1903 - d. 1977)
1 Nov 1954 - 16 Jun 1957 Gaston Claude Villéger
(b. 1904 - d. ....)
1 Aug 1957 - 1 Jan 1960 Jacques Alphonse Boissier
(b. 1913 - d. 1967)
1 Jan 1960 - 25 Apr 1961 Jean Parsi
(b. 1905 - d. 1994)
25 Apr 1961 - 8 Nov 1963 Michel Grollemund
(b. 1914 - d. 2001)
21 Nov 1963 - 16 Sep 1966 Raphaël Roman Hubert Petit
(b. 1916)
16 Sep 1966 - 1 Aug 1967 Pierre Francis Lambertin
(b. 1921)
7 Aug 1967 - 20 Jun 1969 Jean Deliau
(b. 1913)
1 Sep 1969 - 15 Jun 1970 Pierre Béziau
(b. 1920)
1 Jul 1970 - 1 Jul 1973 Jean Benjamin Terrade
(b. 1920 - d. 1996)
1 Jul 1973 - 15 Nov 1975 Christian Ernest Orsetti
(b. 1923)
15 Nov 1975 - 20 May 1978 Paul Noirot-Cosson
(b. 1924 - d. 1997)
20 May 1978 - 3 May 1979 Raymond Raoul Émile
Heim (b. 1920)
3 May 1979 - 27 Jul 1981 Marcel Lucien Paul Julia
(b. 1930)
27 Jul 1981 - 6 Mar 1985 Jean Chevance
(b. 1929)
6 Mar 1985 - 4 Nov 1987 Édouard Lacroix
(b. 1936)
4 Nov 1987 - 12 Apr 1989 Jean Jouandet
(b. 1938)
12 Apr 1989 - 4 Sep 1991 Jean-Claude Roure
(b. 1938)
4 Sep 1991 - 6 Jan 1995 Michel Morin
(b. 1945)
6 Jan 1995 - 24 Aug 1998 Jean-François Cordet
(b. 1951)
31 Aug 1998 - 21 Jun 2000 Dominique Bellion
(b. 1948)
24 Jul 2000 - 9 Feb 2004 Michel Cadot
(b. 1954)
9 Feb 2004 - 20 Jun 2007 Yves Dassonville
(b. 1948)
20 Jun 2007 - 2 Aug 2007 Patrice Latron (interim)
2 Aug 2007 -
Ange Mancini
(b. 1944)
Presidents of the General Council (Conseil général)
(holding executive power from 2 Mar 1982)
1946
Joseph Lagrosillière
(b. 1872 - d. 1950) PS
1946 - 1947
Georges Gratiant
(b. 1907 - d. 1992) PC
1947 - 1948
Paul Symphor (b. 1893 - d. 1968) SFIO
1948 - 1953
François Duval (1st time) (b. 1903 - d. 1984) RPR
1953 - 1957
Alphonse Jean-Joseph
1957 - 1964
Tertulien Robinel
1964 - 1970
François Duval (2nd time) (s.a.) RPR 1970
- Apr 1992
Émile Maurice
(b. 1910 - d. 1993) RPR
Apr 1992 -
Claude Lise
(b. 1941)
PPM
Presidents of the Regional Council (Conseil régional) 1974
- 1983
Camille Petit
(b. 1912 - d. 1993) UNR
Feb 1983 - Mar 1986 Aimé
Césaire
(b. 1913 - d. 2008) PPM
Mar 1986 - 29 Mar 1992 Camille Darsières
(b. 1932 - d. 2006) PPM
29 Mar 1992 - 20 Mar 1998 Émile Capgras
(b. 1926)
PCM
20 Mar 1998 -
Alfred Marie-Jeanne
(b. 1936)
MIM
Party abbreviations: MIM = Mouvement de l'Indépendance
de la Martinique (Independence Movement of Martinique); PC = Parti
Communiste (Communist Party); PCM = Parti
Communiste de la Martinique (Martinique Communist Party);
PPM = Partie Progressive de la Martinique (Progressive Party
of Martinique); PSM = Parti Socialiste de la Martinique (Martinique
Socialist Party); RDM = Rassemblement pour Démocratique la
Martinique (Rally for Democratic Martinique); UDF = Union pour la
Démocratie Française (Union for French Democracy); 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); Mil = Military;
- Former parties: RPR = Rassemblement Pour
la République (Rally for the Republic, Gaulist, conservative, 1976-2002
successor to UDR, merged into UMP); UNR = Union por la Nouvelle
République (Union for the New Republic, Gualist, conservative, 1956-1967)
French possessions
in the Americas
14 Sep 1939 - Sep 1943 French Possessions
in the Americas (French Guiana,
Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Pierre
and Miquelon)
grouped together (to 14 Jul 1943 under Vichy France).
High Commissioners in the Antilles
14 Sep 1939 - 14 Jul 1943 Georges Robert
(b.
1875 - d. 1965)
14 Jul 1943 - Sep 1943 Henri Hoppenot
(b. 1891 - d. 1977)
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