Guadeloupe
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Constitution
(28 Sep 1958)
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Capital:
Basse-Terre
(Fort Olive 1635-1643)
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Currency:
Euro (EUR);
1960-1 Jan 2002 French
Franc
(FRF); 1960-75
French Antilles
Franc (XNF); 1851-1960
Guadeloupe Franc (GPF) |
National
Holiday: 14 Jul (1789)
Fête Nationale
(National Holiday
"Bastille Day")
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Local Holiday:
27 May (1848)
Abolition de
l'Esclavage
(Abolition of Slavery Day) |
Population:
449,173 (2018) |
GDP: $11.6
billion (2016)
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Exports:
$181.4 million (2011)
Imports: $3.45
billion (2011)
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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)
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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/non-religious
3.1%, other 2.1% (2000)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACS (associate), OECS (associate), UPU, WFTU,
WMO
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Guadeloupe
Index
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Chronology
14 Nov
1493
Discovered & claimed for Spain by
Columbus, named
Isla de Santa María de
Guadalupe de Extremadura.
28 Jun
1635
Guadeloupe (Guadaloupe) a French
colony (under the
Compagnie
des Îles de l'Amérique
to 1649).
1635 - Apr
1759
Part of the French Antilles
colony
(see Martinique).
1664 - Dec
1674
Administered by the Compagnie
des Indies
Occidentales.
Dec
1674
French crown colony.
27 Apr 1759 -
4 Jul 1763 British occupation.
1768 -
1775
Part of the French Antilles
colony
(see Martinique).
21 Apr 1794 -
2 Jun 1794 British occupation
(Basse-Terre taken 24 Apr 1794).
25 Oct 1797 - 19 Apr
1801 Organized as a département
of France.
28 Jan 1810
British invasion begun,
Basse-Terre surrenders on
6 Feb 1810.
6 Feb 1810 - 7 Dec
1814 British occupation.
3 Mar 1813 -
30 May 1814 Ceded to Sweden by
France.
18 Jun 1815
Governor declares for
Emperor Napoléon I.
10 Aug 1815 - 26 Jul 1816
British occupation.
14 Sep 1939 - Sep
1943 Subordinated
to High Commissioner and Commander
of the Theater Atlantic West (see Martinique).
24 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%.
9 Jul 2007
Saint-Barthélemy
and Saint-Martin
made separate
French overseas
collectivités.
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Marie-Galante
(1649-1729,1792-94)
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Governors
28 Jun 1635 - 4 Nov 1635 Jean
Duplessis, sieur d'Ossonville (d. 1635)
4 Nov 1635 - Nov 1640
Charles Liénard de L'Olive
(d. 1643)
(from 2 Dec 1637, captain-general)
25 Nov 1640 - Sep 1643 Jean
Aubert
7 Sep 1643 - Aug
1644 Charles Houël, sieur de
Petit-Pré (b. 1616 - d. 1682)
(1st time)(governor and sénéchal)
Aug 1644 - May 1645
Marivet (interim)
29 May 1645 - 8 Jul 1654
Charles Houël, sieur de Petit-Pré (s.a.)
(2nd time)(governor and sénéchal)
8 Jul 1654 -
1656
de Boisseret (acting)
1656 -
1664
Charles Houël, sieur de Petit-Pré (s.a.)
(3rd time)(governor and sénéchal)
23 Jun 1664 - 5 Nov 1664 Ducoudray (interim)
5 Nov 1664 -
1669
Claude François du Lyon
(b. 1633? - d. 1674)
1669 -
1677
Charles François du Lyon
(d. 1677)
1677
de Baas de l'Herpinière
(may not have served)
5 Jul 1677 - 15 Jun 1695 Pierre
Hencelin (Hincelin) (d.
1695)
15 Jun 1695 -
1702
Charles
Auger
(b. 1640 - d. 1705)
1703 - 1705
Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet (absent)(b. 16.. - d. 1706)
Aug 1703 - 1704
Bonaventure-François de
Boisfermé (b. 1661 - d. 1722)
(interim)
1704 - 1 May
1717 Georges
Robert Cloche de Mont-
(b. 16.. - d. 1717)
Saint-Rémy de La
Malmaison
May 1717 - Mar 1719
Savinien Michel Lagarrigue
de (b. 1660 - d. 1722)
Savigny (interim)
22 Jun 1717
François de Pas de
Mazencourt, (b. c.1660 - d. 1731)
marquis de Feuquières
(did not take office)
May 1719 - Oct 1727
Alexandre Vaultier de Moyencourt, (b. 1658 - d.
1728)
seigneur de Reuilly, comte de
Moyencourt
3 Feb 1728 - 27 Jul 1734 Robert
Giraud du Poyet
(b. 1665 - d. 1740)
27 Jul 1734 - 17 Aug 1737 Charles de
Brunier, marquis de (b. 1687 -
d. 1746)
Larnage
17 Aug 1737 - Oct 1749
Gabriel d'Erchigny de Clieu
(b. 1687 - d. 1774)
(1st time)
Oct 1749 - Dec
1750 de Lafond
(1st time)(interim)
Dec 1750 - 15 Aug 1752
Gabriel d'Erchigny de Clieu
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
15 Aug 1752 - 27 Dec 1753 de Lafond (2nd
time)(interim)
27 Dec 1753 -
1757
Jean Antoine Joseph, chevalier (b.
1717 - d. 1794)
de Mirabeau
Mar 1757 - 27 Apr 1759
Charles François Emmanuel Nadeau (b. 1703 -
d. 1786)
du Treil
27 Apr 1759 - 1 May
1759 John Barrington
(b. c.1705 - d.
1764)
1 May 1759 - 11 Mar 1760
Byam Crump
(d. 1760)
Mar 1760 - 4 Jul 1763
Campbell
Dalrymple
(b. 1725 - d. 1767)
Governors-general
4 Jul 1763 - 24 Jun 1764 François Charles de
Bourlamarque (b. 1716 - d. 1764)
24 Jun 1764 - 20 Mar 1765 Henri Édouard,
baron de Copley
(interim)
20 Mar 1765 - 29 Nov 1768 Pierre Gédéon
de Nolivos, comte (b. 1714 - d. 1785)
de Nolivos
Governors
29 Nov 1768 - 27 Feb 1769 Anne Joseph
Hippolyte de Maurès (b. 1730 - d.
1800)
de Malartic
27 Feb 1769 - Aug 1771
François Claude Amour du Chariol, (b. 1739 - d.
1800)
marquis de Bouillé
Aug 1771 - 14 Apr 1773 Louis
François de Dion
(b.
1730 - d. 1794)
(interim to 18 Mar 1772)
14 Apr 1773 - 29 Dec
1775 Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly,
(b. 1738 - d. 1785)
comte
de Tilly (interim)
29 Dec 1775 -
1782
Bache Elzéar Alexandre, comte (b.
1720 - d. 1793)
d'Arbaud de Jouques
16 Nov 1782 - 28 Mar 1783 Claude Charles
de Marillac,
(b. 1731 - d. 1800)
vicomte de Damas
28 Mar 1783 - 27 May 1784 Jean Thomas
Bauné de la Saulais, (b. 1724 - d.
1812)
comte de la Saulais
(interim)
27 May 1784 - 9
Jun 1786 Charles François, baron de
Clugny (b. 1741 - d. 1792)
de Thénisey (1st time)
9 Jun 1786 - 4 Dec 1786 comte
de Micond (acting)
4 Dec 1786 - 25 Jul 1792 Charles
François, baron de Clugny (s.a.)
de Thénisey (2nd time)
25 Jul 1792 - 5 Jan 1793 René Marie, vicomte
d'Arrot (b.
1754 - d. 1821)
(de Darrot) (interim)
5 Jan 1793 - 20 Mar 1793 Jean
Baptiste Raimond Lacrosse (b.
1765 - d. 1829)
(provisional)
20 Mar 1793 - 24 Apr 1794 Georges Henri
Victor Collot
(b. 1750 - d. 1805)
Governor
21 Apr 1794 - 2 Jun 1794 Thomas
Dundas
(b. 1750 - d. 1794)
Commissioners delegated
by the National Convention
7 Jun 1794 - 6 Jan
1795 Jean Baptiste Victor
Hugues (b.
1762 - d. 1826)
6 Jan 1795 - 26 Jan 1796
Jean Baptiste Victor
Hugues (s.a.)
+ Gaspard Goyrand (to Apr 1795)
(b. 1764 - d. 1799)
+ Alexandre Lebas
(b. 1756 -
d. 18..)
Agents Particulier of
the Executive Directory
26 Jan 1796 - 22 Nov 1798 Jean Baptiste
Victor Hugues
(s.a.)
+ Alexandre Lebas
22 Nov 1798 - 17 Oct 1799 Edme Étienne
Borne-Desfourneaux (b. 1767 - d. 1849)
17 Oct 1799 - 11 Dec 1799 Marie
Auguste
Paris
(b. 1771 - d. 1814)
(provisional)
11 Dec 1799 - 29 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)
+ Maurice Henry
Bresseau
(b. 1759 - d. 18..)
(from 2 Mar 1800)
Captains-general
29 May 1801 - 1 Nov 1801 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)
7 May 1802 - 3 Sep 1802
Antoine
Richepance
(b. 1770 - d. 1802)
(general
in chief)
4 Aug 1802 - 8 May 1803 Jean
Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse (s.a.)
(acting for Richepance to 3 Sep 1802)
(2nd time)
8 May 1803 - 6 Feb 1810 Manuel
Louis Jean Augustin Ernouf (b. 1753 - d. 1827)
Governors
6 Feb 1810 - 10 Jul 1810 Sir George
Beckwith
(b. 1753 - d. 1823)
10 Jul 1810 - 30 Aug 1810 Sir Hugh Lyle Carmichael
(interim) (b. 1764 - d. 1813)
30 Aug 1810 - 26 Jun 1813 Sir Alexander Forrester
Inglis (b. 1758 - d. 1832)
Cochrane
26 Jun 1813 - 7 Dec 1814 Sir John
Skinner
(b. 1752 - d. 1827)
7 Dec 1814 - 14 Dec 1814
Baron Eugène Édouard Boyer de (b.
1774 - d. 1856)
Peyreleau (interim)
14 Dec 1814 - 10 Aug 1815 Charles
Alexandre Léon Durand, (b. 1761
- d. 1848)
comte de Linois
Governors-general
10 Aug 1815 - 26 Jul 1816 Sir James
Leith
(b. 1763 - d. 1816)
26 Jul 1816 - 30 Jun 1823 Antoine Philippe, comte
de Lardenoy(b. 1747 - d. 1825)
Governors and Administrators for the
King
1 Jul 1823 - 18 May 1826 Louis Léon
Jacob
(b. 1768 - d. 1854)
18 May 1826 - 1 Jun 1826 Louis
François, baron Vatable
(b. 1773 - d. 1853)
(1st time)(acting)
Governors for the King
1 Jun 1826 - 1 May 1830
Jean Julien, baron Angot
des (b. 1773 - d.
1844)
Rotours
1 May 1830 - 8 Jul 1831 Louis
François, baron Vatable
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Governors
8 Jul 1831 - 3 Jun 1837 René Arnous
des
Saulsays
(b. 1769 - d. 1852)
3 Jun 1837 - 15 Jun 1841 Louis
Jean Guillaume Jubelin
(b. 1787 - d. 1860)
15 Jun 1841 - 7 Jun 1845
Jean Baptiste Marie
Augustin (b. 1786 -
d. 1845)
Gourbeyre
7 Jun 1845 - 31 Oct 1845 Joseph
Athanase Varlet (interim) (b. 1787 - d. 1864)
31 Oct 1845 - 5 Jun 1848 Jean-François
Layrle
(b. 1791 - d. 1881)
5 Jun 1848 - 12 Oct 1848
Alexandre Gatine
(b. 1805 - d. 1864)
(commissioner-general of the republic)
12 Oct 1848 - 14 Apr 1849 Jacques Amédée
Philippe Fiéron (b. 1796 - d.
1872)
(1st time)
14 Apr 1849 - 12 Dec 1849 Jean Jacques
Louis
Fabvre
(b. 1800 - d. 1864)
(provisional)
12 Dec 1849 - 1 Nov 1851 Jacques
Amédée Philippe Fiéron (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1 Nov 1851 - 26 Nov 1851
Jean-Baptiste Honoré Chaumont (b.
1803 - d. 1869)
(interim)
26 Nov 1851 - 12 Dec 1853 Tranquille
Aubry-Bailleul
(b. 1798 - d. 1860)
13 Dec 1853 - 13 Jan 1854 Louis Laurent
Auguste Guillet (b. 1794 -
d. 1871)
(1st time) (interim)
13 Jan 1854 - 28 May 1856 Philibert
Augustin Bonfils (b.
1809 - d. 1871)
29 May 1856 - 4 Mar 1857 Louis
Laurent Auguste Guillet
(s.a.)
(2nd time) (interim)
5 Mar 1857 - 12 Mar 1859
Philippe Victor
Touchard
(b. 1810 - d. 1879)
13 Mar 1859 - 4 Jan 1860 Napoléon
Joseph Louis Bontemps (b. 1813 -
d. 1872)
(interim)
5 Jan 1860 - 11 Jan 1862
Charles Victor Frébault (1st time) (b. 1813 - d. 1888)
11 Jan 1862 - 4 Jul 1862 Louis
Hippolyte de
Lormel
(b. 1806 - d. 1888)
(acting)
4 Jul 1862 - 26 Feb 1864
Charles Victor Frébault (2nd time) (s.a.)
26 Feb 1864 - 19 May 1864 Joseph Desmazes
(1st time)(acting) (b. 1806 - d.
1882)
19 May 1864 - 20 Apr 1866 Louis Hippolyte
de Lormel (s.a.)
(1st time)
20 Apr 1866 - 13 Dec 1866 Joseph Desmazes (2nd
time)(acting) (s.a.)
13 Dec 1866 - 7 Dec 1868 Louis Hippolyte de
Lormel
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
7 Dec 1868 - 24 Apr 1870 Joseph
Desmazes (2nd time)(acting) (s.a.)
24 Apr 1870 - 24 Mar 1873 Marie Gabriel Couturier
(1st time) (b. 1830 - d. 1898)
24 Mar 1873 - 23 Aug 1873 Octave Bernard
Gilbert-Pierre (b. 1817 -
d. 1882)
(acting)
23 Aug 1873 - 10 Aug 1879 Marie Gabriel
Couturier (2nd time) (s.a.)
10 Aug 1879 - 21 Dec 1879 Hippolyte
Pierre Mazé (1st time) (b.
1818 - d. 1892)
(acting)
21 Dec 1879 - 2 Nov 1880
Marie Gabriel Couturier (3rd time) (s.a.)
2 Nov 1880 - 28 Dec 1880 Jean Joseph Marie
Léonce Laugier (b. 1829 - d. 1900)
(1st time)
28 Dec 1880 - 9 Jul 1881 Hippolyte Pierre
Mazé (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
9 Jul 1881 - 12 May 1885 Jean Joseph Marie
Léonce Laugier (s.a.)
(2nd time)
12 May 1885 - 21 Dec 1885 Villebrode Coridon
(acting) (b. 1848 - d. 19..)
21 Dec 1885 - 23 Mar 1886 Jean Joseph Marie Léonce
Laugier (s.a.)
(3rd
time)
23 Mar 1886 - 12 Apr 1886 Adolphe Ernest Auguste
Le Boucher (b. 1837 - d. 1896)
(1st
time)
12 Apr 1886 - 22 Sep 1886 L.J.P.
Sainte-Luce (acting)
22 Sep 1886 - 31 Jan 1891 Adolphe Ernest Auguste
Le Boucher (s.a.)
(2nd time)
31 Jan 1891 - 22 Feb 1891 Louis Hippolyte Marie
Nouët (b. 1844
- d. 1933)
(1st
time)
22 Feb 1891 - 10 Mar 1891 Félix
Gabriel Antoine Feillet
(b. 1866 - d. ....)
(acting)
10 Mar 1891 - 9 Jul 1894 Louis
Hippolyte Marie
Nouët (s.a.)
(2nd time)
9 Jul 1894 - 8 Jun 1895 Marie
Jacques Noël Pardon
(b. 1854 - d. 1910)
8 Jun 1895 - 10 Jun 1895 Jean Jules
Armand Charles Couzinet (b. 1854 - d. 1906)
(1st
time)(acting)
10 Jun 1895 - 11 Jul 1895 Dauphin Moracchini (1st
time) (b. 1846 - d. 1903)
11 Jul 1895 - 21 Feb 1896 Jean Jules Armand
Charles Couzinet (s.a.)
(2nd time)(acting)
21 Feb 1896 - 1 Jun 1900 Dauphin Moracchini
(1st time) (b. 1846 - d. 1903)
1 Jun 1900 - 6 Jul 1901
Joseph Pascal François (acting) (b. 1853 -
d. 1914)
6 Jul 1901 - 12 Jul 1902 Martial Henri
Merlin
(b. 1860 - d. 1935)
12 Jul 1902 - 15 Oct 1902 Charles Amédée
Rognon (acting) (b. 1861 - d. 1911)
15 Oct 1902 - 1 Dec 1904 Paul Marie Armand
Beuverand de (b. 1847 - d. 1913)
La Loyère
1 Dec 1904 - 8 Apr 1905 Jules
Louis Richard (acting) (b. 1854 -
d. 1915)
8 Apr 1905 - 1 Aug 1906 Léon Jules Pol
Boulloche
(b. 1859 - d. 1922)
1 Aug 1906 - 20 Aug 1906 Paul
Joseph Cécile Artaud (acting) (b. 1851
- d. 1920)
20 Aug 1906 - 21 Jul 1907 William Maurice Fawtier
(1st time) (b. 1867 - d. 1926)
(acting)
21 Jul 1907 - 29 Jun 1908 Victor Marie Louis
Ballot
(b. 1853 - d. 1939)
30 Jun 1908 - 21 Feb 1909 Philippe Marius
Henry (acting) (b. 1865 - d. 1915)
21 Feb 1909 - 6 Nov 1910 Henri François
Charles Cor (b. 1864 - d.
1932)
6 Nov 1910 - 6 Apr 1911
William Maurice Fawtier (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
6 Apr 1911 - Feb
1913 Jean Jules Émile
Peuvergne
(b. 1849 - d. 1916)
14 Apr 1913 - 12 Jun 1914 Émile Joseph
Merwart (1st time) (b. 1869 - d. 1960)
12 Jun 1914 - 25 Jul 1914 Jules Gérard
Auguste Lauret
(b. 1866 - d. 19..)
(interim)
25 Jul 1914 -
1917
Émile Joseph Merwart (2nd time) (s.a.)
5 Jun 1917 - 18 Jun 1917 Alexandre
Émile Joyeux (acting)
(b. 1863 - d. 19..)
18 Jun 1917 - 1919
Jules Maurice
Gourbeil
(b. 1867 - d. 1948)
22 Jan 1919 - 12 Jun 1920 Raoul de la
Vaissière (interim)
12 Jun 1920 -
1924
Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
(b. 1880 - d. 1953)
25 Jul 1924 -
1924
Eugène Stanislas Josselin Robert (b. 1867 -
d. 1956)
(interim)
19 Oct 1924 - 2 Apr 1926 Maurice
Beurnier
(b. 1878 - d. 1949)
(interim to 30 Dec 1924)
24 Jun 1926 - 2 Apr 1929 Louis Martial
Innocent Gerbinis (b. 1871 - d. 1954)
Apr 1929 -
1931
Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier (b. 1872 -
d. 1955)
Aug 1931 - 1933
Alphonse Paul Albert
Choteau (b. 1883 -
d. 1936)
9 May 1933 - 25 Oct
1936 Joseph Louis
Bouge
(b. 1878 - d. 1960)
25 Oct 1936 - 26 Jul 1938 Adolphe Félix
Sylvestre Éboué (b. 1884 -
d. 1944)
26 Jul 1938 - 29 Nov 1938 Léopold Arthur
André Allys (acting)(b. 1888 - d. 1968)
29 Nov 1938 - 21 Feb 1940 Marie François Julien
Pierre-Alype (b. 1886 - d. 1956)
21 Feb 1940 - 30 Apr 1940 Georges Marin
Émile Venard (acting)(b. 1883 - d. 1974)
30 Apr 1940 - 15 Jul 1943 Constant Louis Sylvain
Sorin (b. 1901 - d.
1970)
9 Jul 1943 - 15 Jul 1943 Paul
Valentino (in rebellion) (b. 1902 -
d. 1988)
15 Jul 1943 - 21 Sep 1943 Georges Émile Albert
Poirier (b. 1894 - d. 19..)
(acting)
21 Sep 1943 - 1945
Maurice
Pierre Eugène François (b. 1900 - d.
1994)
Stéphane Bertaut
4 Oct 1945 -
1946
André Pierre (interim)
19 Jun 1946 - 12 Oct 1947 Ernest
Maurice de Nattes
(b. 1908 - d. 1994)
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb
1988, Commissioners of the Republic;
from 9 Jul 2007, also Representatives of the
State in the Collectivités
of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin)
12 Oct 1947 - 1947
Jean Henri Pougnet
(b. 1909 - d. 1972)
26 Dec 1947 - 24 Nov 1950 Gilbert Eugène Félicien
Marie (b. 1908 - d. 1983)
Philipson
16 Jan 1951 - Dec 1952
Gaston Claude
Villéger
(b. 1904 - d. 1986)
11 Dec 1952 - 18 May 1954 Jacques
Brunel
(b. 1909 - d. 1964)
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 - d. 2008)
16 Aug 1967 - 16 Dec 1969 Jean
Deleplanque
(b. 1919 - d. 2021)
16 Dec 1969 - 1 Jul 1973 Pierre
Mathieu
Brunon
(b. 1922 - d. 2000)
12 Jul 1973 - 15 Nov 1975 Jacques Jean
Louis Le Cornec (b.
1927 - d. 2022)
15 Nov 1975 - 15 Oct 1978 Jean-Claude
Aurousseau
(b. 1929)
15 Oct 1978 - 28 Feb 1982 Guy Pierre
Marie Maillard
(b.
1930 - d. 2013)
28 Feb 1982 - 13 Feb 1984 Robert
Miguet
(b. 1929 - d. 2019)
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
(b. 1929)
Nov 1989 - 18 Jul 1991
Jean-Paul
Proust
(b. 1940 - d. 2010)
31 Jul 1991 - 6 Oct 1993 Franck
Perriez
(b. 1944)
6 Oct 1993 - 21 Nov 1994
Alain Pierre
Frouté
(b. 1939)
21 Nov 1994 - 16 Oct 1996 Michel
Diefenbacher
(b. 1947 - d. 2017)
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 - Nov 2009
Nicolas Desforges
(b. 1955)
23 Nov 2009 - 24 Aug 2011 Jean-Luc Michel
Fabre
(b. 1949)
17 Jul 2011 - 11 Sep 2011 Philippe
Jaumouillé
(b. 1954 - d. 2021)
(acting [for Fabre to 24 Aug 2011])
11 Sep 2011 - 14 Feb 2013 Amaury de
Saint-Quentin
(b.
1960)
14 Feb 2013 - 1 Dec 2014 Marcelle
Pierrot
(f)
(b. 1949)
1 Dec 2014 - 22 Aug 2017 Jacques
Billant
(b. 1960)
22 Aug 2017 - 4 Sep 2017 Virginie Kles
(f)(1st time)(acting)(b. 1961)
4 Sep 2017 - 18 May 2018 Éric
Maire
(b. 1954)
18 May 2018 - 28 May 2018 Virginie Kles (f)(2nd
time)(acting)(s.a.)
28 May 2018 - 7 Jul 2020 Philippe
Gustin
(b. 1960)
7 Jul 2020 - 10 Aug 2020
Virginie Klès (f)(3rd time)(acting)(s.a.)
10 Aug 2020 - 31 Jan 2023 Alexandre
Rochatte
(b. 1969)
31 Jan 2023 - 6 Feb 2023 Maurice Tubul
(acting)
(b. 1965)
6 Feb 2023
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Xavier
Lefort
(b. 1965)
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
SFIO
17 Nov 1952 - 24 Dec 1953 Adrien Georges
Bourgarel (1st time)(b. 1900 - d. 1990) MRP
24 Dec 1953 - 14 Nov 1954 Council
dissolved by decree
14 Nov 1954 - 20 Nov 1956 René
Toribio
(b. 1912 - d. 1990) SFIO
20 Nov 1956 - 2 Dec 1957 Adrien
Georges Bourgarel (2nd time)(s.a.)
MRP
2 Dec 1957 - 3 Oct
1973 Henri Rinaldo (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
SFIO+DVG
3 Oct 1973 - 17 Mar 1976
Lucien Bernier (1st
time)
(b. 1914 - d. 1989) RRS
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.)
RRS
24 Mar 1982 - 25 Mar 1985 Lucette
Michaux-Chevry
(f) (b.
1929 - d. 2021) URC+RPR
25 Mar 1985 - 27 Mar 1998 Dominique
Larifla
(b.
1936)
PS;1994 GUSR
27 Mar 1998 - 23 Mar 2001 Marcellin
Lubeth
(b.
1922)
PPDG
23 Mar 2001 - 2 Apr 2015 Jacques
Gillot
(b.
1948)
GUSR
President of the Departmental Council (Conseil
départemental)
2 Apr 2015 - 1 Jul 2021 Josette
Borel-Lincertin (f) (b.
1941)
PS
1 Jul 2021
-
Guy
Losbar
(b.
1961)
GUSR
Presidents of the Regional Council (Conseil
régional)
1975 -
1980
Pierre Mathieu
PPG;1977
PS
1980 -
1981
Robert Pentier
(b. 1920 - d. 2017) PS
1981 -
1982
Marcel
Esdras
(b. 1927 - d. 1988) UDF
1981 -
1983
Marcel
Gargar
(b. 1911 - d. 2004) PCG
28 Feb 1983 - 21 Mar 1986 José
Moustache
(b. 1932 - d. 2013) URC+RPR
Mar 1986 - 29 Mar 1992 Félix
Proto
(b. 1942 - d. 2013) PS
29 Mar 1992 - 2 Apr 2004 Lucette
Michaux-Chevry
(f)
(s.a.)
OG+RPR;2002 UMP
2 Apr 2004
- 3 Aug 2012 Victorin Lurel (1st time)
(b.
1951)
PS
3 Aug 2012 - 2 May
2014 Josette Borel-Lincertin (f)
(s.a.)
PS
2 May 2014 - 18 Dec 2015 Victorin Lurel (2nd
time)
(s.a.)
PS
18 Dec 2015
-
Ary
Chalus
(b. 1961) GUSR
Intendants of Justice, Police and Finances of
Guadeloupe
1763 - 1766
Louis de Thomassin de
Peynier (b. 1705 - d.
1794)
1766 - 1768
Jean Louis Honoré d'Hesmivy,
(b. 1719 - d. 1769)
baron de Moissac
1768 - 1790
the Intendants of
Martinique
Ordonnateur (subordinated
to the Intendants of the Îles-du-Vent on Martinique)
1769 -
1775
Antoine Bernard d'Eu de Montdenoix (b. 1731 - d. 1805)
(1st
time)
1775 - 1780
Louis de Thomassin de Peynier
(s.a.)
(intendant)
1780 - 1781
Antoine Bernard d'Eu de Montdenoix
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1781
Constant de Boispineau (interim)
1781 - 1786
Claude Nicolas Fayolle
(b. 1735 - d. c.1802)
1786 - 1789
Eugène Joseph
Stanislas Foulon
d'Éscotier
(b. 1753 – d. 1835)
1789 - 1790
Pierre Iger (interim)
1791 - 1792
Guillot de Rochepierre (interim)
1792 - 5 Dec 1792
Minut
(d. 1792)
Intendants of Justice,
Police and Finances of Guadeloupe
1792 - 1814
Post abolished
14 Dec 1814 -
1815
Léger François Trutié de Vaucresson(b. 1774 - d. 1849)
(interim)
26 Jan 1815 - 1816
Jean-François César de Guilhermy (b. 1761 - d.
1829)
30 Aug 1816 - 12 Jan 1818 Eugène Joseph
Stanislas Foulon
d'Éscotier
(s.a.)
Party abbreviations: DVD
= Divers Droite (Diverse
Right, right-wing candidates not members of any large
party); DVG = Divers
Gauche (Diverse Left, left-wing candidates
not members of a large party); GUSR
= Guadeloupe Unie, Solidaire et Responsable
(Guadeloupe United, Solidarity and Responsible,
autonomist, social-liberal, to 6 Nov 2016
formerly 'Guadeloupe Unie, Socialisme et
Réalités' [Guadeloupe United, Socialism and
Realities] a social-democratic
party, est.1994); LR
= Les Républicains (The Republicans, center-right,
former UMP, est.30 May 2015); OG
= Objectif Guadeloupe (Guadeloupe
Objective, conservative grouping, incl. RPR, est.1992);
PCG = Parti
Communiste Guadeloupéen (Guadeloupe
Communist Party, est.1958); PPDG
= Parti Progressiste Démocratique Guadeloupéen
(Progressive Democratic Party of Guadeloupe, split from PCG,
est.1991); PS = Parti
Socialiste (Socialist Party, social-democratic, former
SFIO, est.4 May 1969);
- Former
parties: MRP = Mouvement
Républicain Populaire (Republican People's Movement,
christian democratic, center-right, 1944-1967);
MSG = Mouvement Socialiste Guadeloupéen
(Guadeloupe Socialist Movement, 1948-1974);
PPG = Parti Progressiste Guadeloupéen
(Progressive Party of Guadeloupe);
RRS = Parti Républicain,
Radical et Radical-Socialiste (Republican,
Radical and Radical-Socialist Party,
moderate, centrist, 1901-1940 & 1945-1978, then
UDF); SFIO =
Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (French
Section of the Workers Internationale, moderate left of
center, 1905-1969, renamed PS); RPF
= Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally of the French
People, Gaullist conservative, 1947-1955); RPR
= Rassemblement Pour la République (Rally for the
Republic, Gaullist, conservative, 1976-2002 successor to
UDR, merged into UMP); UDF
= Union pour la Démocratie Française (Union for French
Democracy, center-right, 1978-2007);
UMP = Union pour un Mouvement
Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement [to 17 Nov 2002:
Union for the Presidential Majority], conservative, merger
of RPR, DL and the main part of UDF,
23 Apr 2002-30
May 2015, renamed LR);
URC = Union du Rassemblement
du Centre (Rally of the Centre Union, local
conservative alliance of RPR
and UDF)
Marie-Galante
3 Nov
1493
Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher
Columbus,
named Santa Maria la Galante.
8
Nov
1648
Marie-Galante (Marigalante) 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 the family 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.
12 Feb
1793
Commission des douze reorganized as assemblée
coloniale
administrative;
secession from Guadeloupe cancelled.
20 Apr
1794
Self-government ended by British occupation.
Governors
4 Sep 1649
- 1653
Jacques de Boisseret
(d. 1653)
1653 -
1655
Madeleine Houël de Boisseret
(f) (b. 1613 - d. 1655)
1670 -
1677
Jacques de Boisseret, chevalier (d. 1677)
de
Thémericourt
1679 - 1686
Charles-François d'Angennes, (b.
1648 - d. 1691)
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)
23 Aug 1714 -
1723
Charles de Brunier, marquis de (b. 1687 -
d. 1746)
Larnage -Royal Lieutenant
Jun 1723 -
1724
Ravary -Royal Lieutenant
(d. 1724)
1724 -
1725
Robert Philippe de Longvilliers
(b. 1671? - d. 1761)
de Poincy (1st time)(acting)
1725 -
1726
La Chassagne (acting)
Mar 1726 -
1729
Pierre Le
Bègue
(d. 1729)
1729 -
1748
Robert Philippe de Longvilliers (s.a.)
de Poincy (2nd time)
1748? -
1752?
Joseph de Jarrier de La
Chassaigne -Royal
Lieutenant
(1st time)
15 Feb 1752 -
1759 Nicolas
Baptiste des Merliers
(b. 1688 - d. 1761)
de Longueville
1759 - 26 May 1759
Joseph de
Jarrier de La Chassaigne
(2nd time) (acting)
British Governor
1759 - 1763
Francis
Maclean
(b. 1717? - d. 1781)
Governors-particular
1763 - 1776
Marc Étienne
de Joubert (b.
1716 - d. 1784)
1777 - Aug 1779
Pierre Joseph de
Neyon de Villiers (b. 1718 - d. 1780)
1779 - 27 Jun 1785
Auguste Lescuiller Descoudrelles
(d. 1785)
1785? - 1790
Jean Étienne, marquis de
Ségur (b. 1731 - d. 1789)
d'Aguesseau
1790 - 1 Nov 1792
Emmanuel Joseph
Desnoyers
(b. 1733 - d. c.1798)
Presidents of the
Commission (Comité des Douze, called "république
des douze")
1 Nov 1792
- 12 Feb 1793 Robert Philippe Claude
Deshayes (b. 1740 - d. 1808)
(Deshaies)
+ Dominique Murat
(b. 1742 - d.
1819)
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