Réunion
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- Adopted 1815
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Department flag to
2015
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Regional
Council Flag 1990s - c.2015
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- Regional Council
flag Adopted c.2015
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- Regional
Council Variant from 15 Dec 2022
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Regional Logo
Adopted 2017
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Unofficial Cultural
Flag
20 Dec 1996-2003
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Unofficial Cultural
Flag from
28 Apr 2003,
Official from 7 Dec
2013
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Map
of Réunion
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Hear
National Anthem
"La Marseillaise"
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Hear Local
Anthem
"P'tit
fleur fanée"
(Little Faded
Flower)
(in use from 1930)
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Constitution
(28 Sep 1958)
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Capital:
Saint-Denis
(Saint-Paul 1663-1738)
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Currency:
Euro (EUR);
1973-1 Jan 2002 French
Franc
(FRF); 1944-1973 CFA
Franc
(XCF); 1851-1960 Reunion
Franc (REF)
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National
Holiday: 14 July (1789)
Fête Nationale
(National Holiday
"Bastille Day")
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Local Holiday: 20
Dec (1848)
Abolition de l'Esclavage
(Abolition of Slavery Day)
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Population:
866,506 (2019)
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GDP: $22.3
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$314 million (2006)
Imports: $5.16
billion (2006)
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Ethnic groups:
mixed race (black-white-south Asian)
42.6%,
white 25.6%, South Asian
23% (of which Tamil 20%),
Chinese 3.4%, East
African 3.4%, Malagasy 1.4%,
other 0.6% (2000)
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Total French
Troops: 1,600 (2016)
Defense is the
Responsibility of France
Merchant marine:
1 ship (2005)
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Religions:
Christian 87.8% (of which Roman
Catholic 81.8%,
Pentecostal 4.2%), Hindu 4.5%, Muslim
4.2%,
non-religious 1.7%, other 1.8% (2000)
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International
Organizations/Treaties:
InOC, ITUC, UPU, WFTU, WMO
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Réunion
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Chronology
9 Feb
1507
Discovered by Portuguese Capt. Diego
Fernandez
Pereira, named Santa Appollonia.
9
Feb
1513
Re-discovered by Portuguese Capt.
Pedro de
Mascarenhas, named Ilha
Mascarene.
24 Mar
1613
English Capt. Samuel Castelton names
the island
England's Forest.
Jun
1638
Claimed for France by Salomon Goubert,
and
named Île Saint-Paul.
Sep
1642
Officially claimed for France (as Île
Saint-Paul).
Dec
1649
Annexed for France, renamed Île
Bourbon.
10 Nov
1663
First settlement begins.
1
Dec 1674 - 14 Jul 1767 Under the
French Compagnie des
Indes Orientales
rule.
Aug 1764
King Louis
XV bought Île Bourbon and the Île
de
France (Mauritius) from the bankrupt
East India
Company for the sum of 7,625,348
Livres
(effective 14 Jul 1767).
14 Jul 1767
French crown colony.
19 Mar
1793
Renamed Île de la Réunion (sometimes
called
Réunion des Patriotes).
25 Oct
1797 - 19 Apr 1801 Nominally
organized as a département
of France,
but was in the hands of a colonial
assembly
controlled by royalists.
3
Feb 1803 - 9 Jul 1810 Part
of the French colony of
Indes-Orientales
(see Mauritius).
15 Aug
1806
Île Bonaparte
7 Jul 1810
British invasion
begun, capital surrenders on
8 Jul 1810.
9 Jul 1810 - 5 Apr
1815 Occupied by Britain.
7
Aug
1810
Île Bourbon.
6
Sep
1848
Réunion
16 Jun
1940 - 30 Nov 1942
Administration loyal to Vichy France (from
29 Nov
1942, Free French). Vichy
administration formally
surrenders on 30 Nov
1942.
28 Nov 1942 - 30
Nov 1942 Free French forces
invade Réunion.
19 Mar
1946
French overseas département.
28 Mar
2003
French
overseas region.
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Commandants (of the Compagnie
des Indes Orientales 1674-1764)
Dec 1649 - 5 Aug
1665 No central
administration
5 Aug 1665 - 8 May
1671 Étienne Regnault
(b. 16.. - d. 1688)
9 May 1671 - 22 Nov 1674 Jacques de
La Heure dit La Hure (d. 1674/75)
22 Nov 1674 - 1 Dec 1674 Jacob de
la Haye (de facto)
1 Dec 1674 - 17 Jun 1678 Henry Esse
d'Orgeret
(d. 1678)
18 Jun 1678 - Jan 1680
Germain de Fleurimont Moulinier (d. 1680)
Jan 1680 - 1 Dec
1686 F. Bernardin de Quimper
(b. 1634 - d.
1689)
2 Dec 1686 - 10 Dec 1689
Jean-Baptiste Drouillard
(d. 1693)
11 Dec 1689 - 15 Nov 1690 Henry Habert de
Vauboulon (b. 1632? -
d. 1692)
16 Nov 1690 - 11 Aug 1693 Michel
Firelin
(b. 1667 - d. 1697)
1693 - 1694
des Prades
+ Lemayeur
(acting)
May 1694 - Aug 1696
Directory of Saint Paul
- Athanase Touchard
(b. c.1642 - d. 1715)
(president; leader "naturel de l'île")
- Louis Caron
- René Hoarau
- François Mussard
- Lezin Rouillard
- Antoine Payet
1 Aug 1696 - 6 Jun
1698 Joseph Bastide
(b. c.1651 -
d. ....)
21 Oct 1699 - 13 May 1701 Jacques de La
Cour de La Saulais
12 Jun 1701 - 5 Aug 1709
Jean-Baptiste de Villers
10 Sep 1709 - 24 Mar 1710
François Michel Marschalck des
(b. c.1675 - d. 1730)
Bordes, seigneur de Charanville
22 Apr 1710 - 14 Nov 1715 Pierre Antoine Parat de
(b. 16.. - d. 1721)
Chaillenest
4 Dec 1715 - 14 Feb 1718
Henri de Justamond
(b. 1686 - d. 1735)
6 Sep 1718 - 22 Aug 1723
Joseph Beauvollier, sieur de
Courchant
23 Aug 1723 - 1 Dec 1725 Antoine
Labbé dit Desforges- (b.
c.1680 - d. 1725)
Boucher
2 Dec 1725 - 28 May 1727
Hélie Dioré de Périgny
(b. 1677 - d. 1741)
21 Jul 1727 - 11 Jul 1735 Pierre Benoît
Dumas
(b. 1668 - d. 1745)
12 Jul 1735 - 1 Oct 1735 Bertrand
François Mahé, comte (b. 1699 -
d. 1753)
de La Bourdonnais
Commandants (under the
governor-general of the Mascarene Islands; see Mauritius)
2 Oct 1735 - 30 Sep 1739
Charles L'Emery Dumont
11 Nov 1739 - 12 Dec 1743 Pierre André
d'Héguerty
(b. 1700 - d. 1763)
13 Dec 1743 - 8 May 1745 Didier de
Saint-Martin (1st time) (b. 1698 - d. 1777)
15 May 1745 - 31 Oct 1745 Jean-Baptiste
Azéma
(b. 1697 - d. 1745)
1 Nov 1745 - 18 Dec 1745
Didier de Saint-Martin (2nd time) (s.a.)
Governors
29 Dec 1745 - 28 Mar 1747 Gérard
Gaspard de Ballade (d.
1749)
(1st time)
14 Apr 1747 - 11 Nov 1748 Didier de
Saint-Martin
(s.a.)
22 Nov 1748 - 17 Mar 1749 Gérard
Gaspard de Ballade
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
24 May 1749 - 23 Aug 1749 Antoine Marie
Desforges-Boucher (b. 1713 - d. 1790)
(1st time)
6 Sep 1749 - 16 Oct 1750
Joseph Brénier (1st time)
16 Oct 1750 - 14 Dec 1752 Jean-Baptiste
Charles Bouvet de (b. 1705 - d. 1786)
Lozier (1st time)
14 Dec 1752 - 14 Jan 1756 Joseph Brénier
(2nd time)
12 Jul 1757 - 15 Oct 1757 Antoine Marie
Desforges-Boucher (s.a.)
(2nd time)
19 Oct 1757 - 6 Sep 1763
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de (s.a.)
Lozier (2nd time)
7 Sep 1763 - 14 Oct 1763
Jean
Sentuary
(b. 1711 - d. 1784)
5 Nov 1763 - 30 Mar 1767
François Jacques Bertin d'Avesnes (b. 1716 - d.
1793)
31 Mar 1767 - 4 Nov 1767 Martin
Adrien
Bellier
(b. 1718 - d. 1793)
4 Nov 1767 - 4 Oct
1773 Guillaume Léonard de
Bellecombe (b. 1728 - d. 1792)
15 Dec 1773 - 15 Oct 1776 Jean Guillaume
de Steinauer
26 Oct 1776 - 30 Apr 1779 François de
Peynier, vicomte de (b. 1732 - d.
1803)
Souillac
25 May 1779 - 22 Aug 1781 Joseph Bigeard
de Murinais, comte (b. 1718 - d. 1803)
de Saint-Maurice (acting)
25 Aug 1781 - 21 Apr 1785 Alexandre
Joseph François Chalvet, (b. 1738 - d. 1791)
baron de Souville
2 May 1785 - 15 Feb 1788
Claude Élie Dioré de Périgny
(b. 1727 - d. 1803)
21 Feb 1788 - 15 Aug 1790 David
Charpentier de Cossigny
(b. 1740 - d. 1801)
8 Sep 1790 - 18 Oct 1792
Dominique Prosper de
Chermont (b. 1741 - d.
1798)
19 Oct 1792 - 11 Apr 1794 Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux
du Plessis (b. 1735 - d. 1825)
(revolutionaries prisoner to Aug 1795)
19 Oct 1792 - 11 Apr 1794
Marc-Antoine Pierre Tirol
(b. 1743 - d. 1824)
(civil commissioner)
12 Apr 1794 - 1 Nov 1795 Pierre
Alexandre
Roubaud
(b. 1752 - d. 1800)
2 Nov 1795 - 7 Oct
1803 Philippe Antoine Jacob de Cordemoy (b. 1735 -
d. 1820)
10 Nov 1803 - 31 Dec 1805 François Louis
Magallon, comte de (b. 1754 - d. 1825)
la Morlière
9 Jan 1806 - 25 Sep 1809
Nicolas Ernault de Regnac
des (b. 1757 - d. 1809)
Brulys
9 Oct 1809 - 8 Jul
1810 Jean Chrysostome Bruneteau
de (b. 1773 - d. 1830)
Sainte-Suzanne
7 Jul 1810 - 9 Jul 1810 Henry
Sheehy
Keating
(b. 1775 - d. 1847)
(British commander)
9 Jul 1810 - 20 Dec 1810 Robert Townsend
Farquhar
(b. 1776 - d. 1830)
(1st time)
20 Dec 1810 - 26 Apr 1811 Henry Sheehy
Keating (1st time) (b. 1775 - d. 1847)
26 Apr 1811 - 10 Jul 1811 Robert Townsend
Farquhar
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
10 Jul 1811 - 5 Apr 1815 Henry
Sheehy Keating (2nd time) (s.a.)
6 Apr 1815 - 30 Jun 1817
Athanase Hyacinthe Bouvet
de (b. 1770 - d.
1825)
Lozier
1 Jul 1817 - 9 Sep
1818 Hilaire Urbain de Lafitte du
(b. 1762 - d. 1836)
Courteil
13 Sep 1818 - 14 Feb 1821 Pierre Bernard
de
Milius
(b. 1773 - d. 1829)
15 Feb 1821 - 14 Oct 1826 Louis Henri de
Saulces
de
(b. 1777 - d. 1840)
Freycinet
20 Oct 1826 - 4 Jul 1830 Achille
Guy Marie de Penfentenio, (b.
1776 - d. 1835)
comte de Cheffontaines
5 Jul 1830 - 7 Nov
1832 Étienne Henry Mengin Duval d'Ailly
(b. 1778 - d. 1865)
8 Nov 1832 - 4 May
1838 Jacques Philippe
Cuvillier
(b. 1774 - d. 1857)
5 May 1838 - 14 Oct 1841
Anne Chrétien Louis de
Hell (b. 1783
- d. 1864)
15 Oct 1841 - 4 Jun 1846 Charles
Louis Joseph Bazoche
(b. 1784 - d. 1853)
5 Jun 1846 - 13 Oct 1848
Emmanuel François Joseph Graeb
(b. 1790 - d. 1850)
13 Oct 1848 - 7 Mar 1850 Joseph
Napoléon Sarda Garriga (b.
1808 - d. 1877)
(commissioner of the republic)
9 Mar 1850 - 14 Feb 1851 Marie Bon Ézéchiel
Barolet de (b. 1803 - d. 1877)
Puligny
15 Feb 1851 - 8 Aug 1852 Louis
Isaac Pierre Hilaire Doret (b. 1789 - d.
1866)
8 Aug 1852 - 8 Jan
1858 Louis Henri Hubert
Delisle
(b. 1810 - d. 1881)
11 Jan 1858 - 27 Mar 1858 A. Lefèvre (acting)
28 Mar 1858 - 19 Sep 1864 Rodolphe
Augustin, baron Darricau (b. 1807 - d. 1877)
4 Jan 1865 - 23 Sep 1869
Marie Jules
Dupré
(b. 1815 - d. 1881)
27 Sep 1869 - 18 Sep 1875 Louis Hippolyte
de Lormel (b. 1806 -
d. 1888)
19 Nov 1875 - 29 Apr 1879 Pierre Aristide
Faron
(b. 1814 - d. 1879)
6 May 1879 - 23 Mar 1886
Pierre Étienne
Cuinier
(b. 1824 - d. 1888)
23 Mar 1886 - 11 Oct 1886 Jean Baptiste
Antoine Lougnon (b. 1843 -
d. 1893)
(1st time) (interim)
11 Oct 1886 - 16 Dec 1887 Étienne Antoine
Guillaume Richaud (b. 1841 - d. 1889)
16 Dec 1887 - 21 Aug 1888 Jean Baptiste
Antoine Lougnon (s.a.)
(2nd time)
22 Aug 1888 - 10 Jul 1893 Louis Evenor
Édouard Manès (b. 1835 - d.
1898)
11 Jul 1893 - 21 Jun 1895 Henri Éloi
Danel
(b. 1850 - d. 1900)
22 Jun 1895 - 12 Aug 1895 Henri Charles
Roberdeau (interim) (b. 1849 - d. 1916)
13 Aug 1895 - 19 May 1896 Benedict Jacob
de Cordemoy (b. 1848 - d.
1907)
19 May 1896 - 30 Oct 1900 Laurent Marie
Émile Beauchamp (b. 1838 -
d. 1901)
30 Oct 1900 - 19 Feb 1901 Charles Albert
Madre
(b. 1844 - d. 1908)
19 Feb 1901 - 29 Jul 1905 Paul
Samary
(b. 1848 - d. 1911)
29 Jul 1905 - 30 Aug 1906 Fernand Ernest
Thérond (acting) (b. 1862
- d. 1921)
30 Aug 1906 - 7 Nov 1906 Auguste
Marius
Verignon
(b. 1851 - d. 19..)
8 Nov 1906 - 27 Dec 1907
Jules Adrien Jean
Bonhoure
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
1 Jan 1908 - 19 Mar 1908
Henri François Charles
Cor (b.
1864 - d. 1932)
19 Mar 1908 - 18 Jan 1910 Camille Lucien
Xavier
Guy
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
18 Jan 1910 - 17 Sep 1910 Philippe Émile
Jullien
(b. 1845 - d. 1912)
18 Sep 1910 - 28 Jul 1912 François Pierre
Rodier
(b. 1854 - d. 1913)
30 Aug 1912 - 22 Nov 1913 Hubert Auguste
Garbit
(b. 1869 - d. 1933)
23 Nov 1913 - 1 Jun 1919 Pierre
Louis Alfred Duprat
(b. 1880 - d. 1953)
2 Jun 1919 - 26 Jul 1920
Victor Jean Brochard (acting)
(b. 1876 - d. 19..)
27 Jul 1920 - 5 Sep 1922 Frédéric
Estèbe
(b. 1863 - d. 1936)
6 Sep 1922 - 21 Aug 1923
Henri Cleret de Langavant
(b.
1872 - d. 19..)
22 Aug 1923 - 2 Oct 1924 Maurice
Pierre Lapalud
(b. 1868 - d. 1935)
31 Mar 1925 - 28 Nov 1932 Jules Vincent
Repiquet
(b. 1874 - d. 1960)
29 Nov 1932 - 13 Jun 1934 Louis
Fabre
(b. 1885 - d. 1936)
14 Jun 1934 - 29 May 1936 Alphonse Paul
Albert Choteau (b.
1883 - d. 1936)
29 May 1936 - 16 Aug 1936 Charles Victor
Allard (interim) (b. 1882 - d.
19..)
17 Aug 1936 - 27 Oct 1938 Léon Hippolyte
Truitard
(b. 1885 - d. 1972)
28 Oct 1938 - 29 Dec 1939 Joseph Urbain
Court
(b. 1881 - d. 1948)
30 Dec 1939 - 30 Nov 1942 Pierre Émile
Aubert
(b. 1888 - d. 1972)
("Vichy" governor 16 Jun 1940 - 30 Nov 1942)
29 Nov 1942 - 17 Jul 1947
Jean-Charles André Capagorry
(b. 1894 - d. 1981)
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb
1988, Commissioners of the Republic)
16 Aug 1947 - 1 Jun 1950 Paul
Demange
(b. 1906 - d. 1970)
1 Jun 1950 - 4 Jul
1952 Roland Luc
Béchoff
(b. 1906 - d. 2006)
4 Jul 1952 - 14 May 1956
Pierre
Philip
(b. 1893 - d. 1961)
12 Jun 1956 - 1 Mar 1963
Jean-François Pierre Perreau-
(b. 1911 - d. 1981)
Pradier
1 Mar 1963 - 1 Sep
1966 Alfred
Diefenbacher
(b. 1915 - d. 2015)
11 Sep 1966 - 22 Oct 1969 Jean
Vaudeville
(b. 1921 - d. 1993)
29 Oct 1969 - 21 Aug 1972 Paul
Cousseran
(b. 1922 - d. 2000)
28 Aug 1972 - 14 Apr 1975 Claude Édouard
Louis Vieillescazes (b. 1923 - d. 1995)
14 Apr 1975 - 12 May 1977 Robert
Lamy
(b. 1925 - d. 2023)
16 May 1977 - 22 May 1980 Bernard
Landouzy
(b. 1933)
29 May 1980 - 1 Aug 1981 Jacques
Jean Frédéric Seval (b.
1930 - d. 2021)
1 Aug 1981 - 15 Mar 1984
Michel Francis
Levallois
(b. 1934 - d. 2018)
26 Mar 1984 - 9 Apr 1986
Michel-Daniel
Blangy
(b. 1939)
9 Apr 1986 - 25 Apr 1986
Jean-Marc Rebière
(acting)
(b. 1948)
25 Apr 1986 - 11 Sep 1989 Jean
Anciaux
(b. 1930 - d. 2013)
11 Sep 1989 - 18 Jul 1991 Daniel Auguste
Constantin
(b. 1940)
18 Jul 1991 - Dec 1992
Jacques
Dewatre
(b. 1936 - d. 2021)
2 Dec 1992 - 2 Jan
1995 Hubert
Fournier
(b. 1948)
9 Jan 1995 - 27 Nov 1995
Pierre
Steinmetz
(b. 1943)
27 Nov 1995 - 29 Nov 1995 Yves
Dassonville (1st
time) (b. 1948
- d. 2021)
(acting)
29 Nov 1995 - 15 Jul 1998 Robert
Pommies
(b. 1941)
15 Jul 1998 - 5 Aug 1998 Yves
Dassonville (2nd
time) (s.a.)
(acting)
5 Aug 1998 - 2 Jul
2001 Jean
Daubigny
(b. 1948 - d. 2024)
2 Jul 2001 - 31 Jul 2001
Vincent Bouvier
(acting)
(b. 1952)
31 Jul 2001 - 13 Aug 2004 Gonthier Jean
Claude Friédérici (b. 1945)
13 Aug 2004 - 16 Aug 2004 Franck Olivier
Lachaud (1st time) (b. 1969)
(acting)
16 Aug 2004 - 4 Jun 2005 Dominique
Vian
(b. 1944)
4 Jun 2005 - 16 Jul 2005
Franck Olivier Lachaud (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
16 Jul 2005 - 22 Aug 2006 Laurent
Cayrel
(b. 1950)
22 Aug 2006 - 28 Aug 2006 Franck Olivier
Lachaud (3rd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
28 Aug 2006 - 8 Feb 2010 Pierre
Henry
Maccioni
(b. 1948)
8 Feb 2010 - 15 Feb 2010 Michel
Theuil
(acting)
(b. 1958 - d. 2013)
15 Feb 2010 - 27 Aug 2012 Michel
Lalande
(b. 1955)
27 Aug 2012 - 26 Aug 2014 Jean-Luc
Marx
(b. 1954)
26 Aug 2014 - 2 Sep 2014 Xavier Brunetière
(acting)
(b. 1978)
2 Sep 2014 - 3 Jun 2017 Dominique
Sorain
(b. 1955)
3 Jun 2017 - 10 Jul 2017 Maurice Barate
(acting)
(b. 1961)
10 Jul 2017 - 17 Jun 2019
Amaury de
Saint-Quentin
(b. 1960)
17 Jun 2019 - 1 Aug 2022 Jacques
Billant
(b. 1960)
1 Aug 2022 - 23 Aug 2022 Régine Pam (f)
(acting)
(b. 1964)
23 Aug 2022 - 22 Oct 2024 Jérôme
Filippini
(b. 1968)
22 Oct 2024 -
Laurent Lenoble (acting)
(b. 1977)
Presidents of the General Council (Conseil
général)
19 Nov 1945 - May 1946
Paul
Picaud
(b. 1907 - d. 1998)
May 1946 - 31 Oct 1946
Léon de
Lépervanche
(b. 1907 - d. 1961) PCF+CRADS
31 Oct 1946 - 13 Oct 1949 Roger
Vidot
(b. 1911 - d. 1976) PCF+CRADS
13 Oct 1949 - 6 Jan 1966 Roger
Payet
(b. 1894 - d. 1966) PCF;1959 PCR
8 May 1966 - 4 Oct
1967 Marcel
Cerneau
(b. 1905 - d. 1990) DVD+CD
4 Oct 1967 - 24 Mar
1982 Pierre
Lagourgue
(b. 1921 - d. 1998) UDR;1978 UDF
24 Mar 1982 - 8 Oct 1988 Auguste
Legros
(b. 1922 - d. 2008) UDRP +
RPR
Oct 1988 - Aug
1993 Éric
Boyer
(b. 1939)
DVD
Aug 1993 - 28 Mar 1994
Joseph Sinimalé
(interim)
(b.
1943)
RPR
28 Mar 1994 - 30 Mar 1998 Christophe
Payet
(b.
1940)
PS
30 Mar 1998 - 1 Apr 2004 Jean-Luc
Poudroux
(b.
1950)
UDF
1 Apr 2004 - 2
Apr 2015 Nassimah Mangrolia Dindar
(f) (b.
1960)
UMP;2008 DS
Presidents of the Departmental Council (Conseil
départemental)
2 Apr 2015 - 18 Dec 2017 Nassimah Mangrolia
Dindar (f)
(s.a.)
UDI
18 Dec 2017
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Cyrille
Melchior
(b.
1961)
LR
Presidents of the Regional Council (Conseil
régional)
15 Dec 1973 - 3 Jan 1978 Marcel
Cerneau
(s.a.)
UDR;1976 RPR
3 Jan 1978 - 28 Feb 1983 Yves Barau
(b. 1910 - d. 1994)
RPR
28 Feb 1983 - Mar 1986
Mario
Hoarau
(b. 1914 - d. 1993) PCR
Mar 1986 - 27 Mar 1992
Pierre
Lagourgue
(s.a.)
FRA
27 Mar 1992 - 25 Jun 1993 Camille
Sudre
(b.
1948)
FD
25 Jun 1993 - 23 Mar 1998 Marguerite
"Margie" Sudre (f) (b.
1943)
FD
23 Mar 1998 - 26 Mar 2010 Paul
Vergès
(b. 1925 - d. 2016) PCR
26 Mar 2010 - 2 Jul 2021
Didier
Robert
(b. 1964)
UMP;2015 LR
2 Jul 2021
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Huguette Bello
(f)
(b. 1950) PLR
Ordonnateur (representing
the Intendants on Île de France [Mauritius] to
1803)
1767 - 1778
Honoré de Crémont
(b. 1731 - d. 1800)
1778 - 1784
Jean-Charles Potier, marquis
(b. c.1725 - d. 1797)
de Courcy
20 Aug 1784 - 4 Oct 1785 Augustin
François Motais de (b. 1747 -
d. 1827)
Narbonne
1785 - 1789
Jean-Baptiste
Charles Laurent (b. 1751 - d. 1838)
Thibault de Chanvalon (1st
time)
7 Nov 1789 - 7 May 1794
Pierre Rathier du Vergé
(b. 1746 - d. bf.1810)
May 1794 - 1799
Jean-Baptiste Charles Laurent
(s.a.)
Thibault de Chanvalon (2nd
time)
1799 - 1803
de Saint-Perne
1803 - 1804
Jean-Baptiste Charles Laurent
(s.a.)
Thibault de Chanvalon
(3rd time)
29 Apr 1804 - Jul 1810 Jacques-Henri
Benoit Marchant
(b. 1756 - d. 18..)
(sous-préfet)
Jul 1810 - 1815
Post abolished
9 Apr 1815 - 5 Dec
1816 Jacques-Henri Benoit
Marchant (s.a.)
(chef de l'administration commissaire
ordonnateur)
1816 - 28 Jun 1817
Auguste Montjol de Lanux (interim) (b. 1766 -
d. 1836)
28 Jun 1817 - 5 Sep 1817 Philippe Panon
Desbassayns, baron (b. 1774 - d. 1840)
de Richemont
(commissaire ordonnateur)
Party abbreviations: DS = Droite
Sociale (Social Right, center-right,
Réunion
regionalist, split from UMP, est.2008); DVD
= Divers Droite (Diverse Right,
right-wing candidates not members of any large party);
FD = Free-Dom
(Free Département d'Outre-Mer [Free Overseas
Department], originally center-right,
Camille Sudre personalist, est.1992); FRA
= France- Réunion Avenir (France-Reunion Future, est.1986);
LR = Les Républicains (The
Republicans, center-right, former UMP, est.30 May
2015); MoDem = Mouvement Démocrate
(Democratic Movement, centrist, est.2007); PCR
= Parti Communiste Réunionnais (Communist Party of
Reunion, communist, split from PCF,
est.17 May 1959); PCF
= Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party,
communist, est.1920); PLR = Pour la Réunion
(For Reunion, democratic-socialist, split from PCR,
est.13 May 2012); PS =
Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party, social-democratic,
former SFIO, est.1969); UC
= Union Centriste (Centrist Union, centrist, est.1983);
UDI = Union des Démocrates et Indépendants
(Union of Democrats and Independents, center-right coalition,
est.18 Sep 2012);
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Former parties: CD = Centre
Démocrate (Democratic Center, centrist, Christian
democratic, 2 Feb 1966-23 May 1976, merged into
CDS); CRADS = Comité Républicain
d'Action Démocratique et Sociale (Republican Committee
for Democratic and Social Action, anti-colonial, Reunion
regionalist, Mar 1945-1949?); 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 the French
Democracy, centrist, social-democratic, 1978-1998);
UDR = Union pour la Défense de la
République (Union for the Defense of the Republic,
Gaullist, conservative, UNR successor, 1971 renamed
Union des Démocrates pour la République [Union of
Democrats for the Republic], 1968-1976); UDRP
= Union Départementalisation pour le
Renouveau et le Progrès (Departmentalization Union for
Renewal and Progress, center-right Reunion
election list, est.c.1982); 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)
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