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
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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 de la Motte
(b.
c.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, first settlement form Guadeloupe.
4
Sep 1649
Jacques de
Boisseret purchased the island from the Compagnie
des
Isles d'Amérique (de
Boisseret's widow formally surrenders the
family
claim in 1660).
1653
Boisseret and the few colonists are massacred by the
Caribs
Jun
1676
Island is pillaged by the Dutch.
1690,
1691
Island is pillaged by the English.
1691 -
1696
Abandoned, re-settlement of the island
prohibited by the governor-
general
of Martinique.
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 of
Marie-Galante
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
- 1692
Charles Auger de La
Motte
(b. c. 1640 - d. 1705)
1692 - 1695
Vacant
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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