Guadeloupe
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Constitution (28 Sep 1958)
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Capital: Basse-Terre (Le Moule 1635-1643)
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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 ---------------------------------
Local Holiday: 27 May (1848) Slavery Abolition Day
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Population: 417,520 (2007)
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GDP: $3.51 billion (2003)
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Exports: $147.8 million (2002) Imports: $1.76 billion (2002)
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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 French Troops: 535 (2000) Defense is the Responsibility of France
Merchant marine: None (2006)
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Religions: Roman Catholic 81.1%, Jehovah's
Witness 4.8%,
Protestant 4.7%, Hindu, pagan African, other
and non-religious 9.4% (1995)
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Chronology
14 Nov 1493
Discovered and 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.
1 May 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.
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Marie-Galante (1649-1729,1792-94)
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Governors
1635
Jean Duplessis, sieur d'Ossonville
1635 - 1640
Charles Liénard de l'Olive
1640 - 1643
Jean Aubert
1643 - 1664
Charles Houël, sieur de Petit-Pré
1664 - 1669
Claude François du Lion
1669 - 1677
the governors of Martinique
1677 - 1695
Pierre Hencelin
1695 - 1702
Charles Auger
(b. c.1640 - d. 1705)
1702 - 1703
de Mahaut
1703 - 1706
Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet
(b. 16.. - d. 1706)
1704 - 1717
Hemon Coinard de la Malmaison
1717 - 1719
Savinien Michel Lagarrigue de (b. 1660 -
d. 1722)
Savigny
1719 - 1728
Alexandre Vaultier,
comte de Moyencourt
1728 - 27 Jul 1734
Robert Giraud du Poyet
1734 - 1737
Charles de Brunier, marquis de (d. 1746)
Larnage
17 Oct 1737 - 1753
Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu
(b. 1687 - d. 1774)
1753 - 1757
Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau
1757 - 1759
Charles François Emmanuel Nadau (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
1775 - 1782
Bache Elzéar Alexandre d'Arbaud (b. 1720 - d.
1793)
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)
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)
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.)
+ Goyrand (to Jun 1795)
+ Lebas
Agents (of the French Executive Directory)
Jan 1796 - 22 Nov 1798 Jean Baptiste Victor
Hugues (s.a.)
+ 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 - 24 Apr 1816 Sir James Leith
(b. 1763 - d. 1816)
24 Apr 1816 - 25 Jul 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
Jean-Guillaume Jubelin
(b. 1787 - d. 18..)
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 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 -
Emmanuel Berthier
(b. 1957)
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 - Mar 1992 Félix
Proto
PS
22 Mar 1992 - 2 Apr 2004 Lucette Michaux-Chevry (f)
(s.a.)
RPR;2002 UMP
2 Apr 2004 -
Victorin Lurel
(b. 1951)
PS
Party abbreviations: DVG
=
Divers Gauche (Various Left parties); FRUI.G = FGPS Dissidents; GUSR
= Guadeloupe Unie Socialisme et Realites;
MPGI = Mouvement Pour Guadeloupe Indépendante (Movement
for an Independent Guadeloupe);
PC = Parti
Communiste (Communist Party);PDPG = Progressif Démocratique Parti de Guadeloupe
(Progressive Democratic Party); PS = Parti Socialist (Socialist
Party); 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);
UPLG
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Union Populaire pour la Libération de Guadeloupe (Popular Union
for the Liberation of Guadeloupe);
- Former parties: RPF = Rassemblement du Peuple Français (Rally for the French People, 1945-55); RPR = Rassemblement Pour
la République (Rally for the Republic, Gaulist, conservative, 1976-2002
successor to UDR, merged into UMP); MSG = Mouvement socialiste guadeloupéen; SFIO = Section
Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière (French Section of
the Workers Internationale, moderate left of center, 1905-1969, from 1969
PS)
Marie-Galante
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 - 1685
Charles-François d'Angennes,
marquis de Maintenon
1 Jan 1686 - 1692
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
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