List of Prefects of French Guiana
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French Guiana has been a French colony since 1674, but only in 1691 the French rulers in Paris thought a colonial head was needed to manage the territory.
[edit] Governors of The first French Colony of Guiana (1691 - 1809)
1691 - 1700 Pierre Eléonore de la Ville,
marquis de Férolles (3rd time) (b. 16... - d. 1705)
1700 - 1701 Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(1st time) (b. 16... - d. 1713)
1701 - 5 Aug 1705 Pierre Eléonore de la Ville,
marquis de Férolles (4th time) (s.a.)
1705 - 1706 Antoine de Querci de Rionville
1706 - 1713 Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1713 - 1716 Pierre de Morthon de Laumière
de Grandville
1716 - 1720 Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(1st time) (b. 1668 - d. 1728)
1720 - 1722 François de la Motte-Aigron
1722 - 1728 Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1729 - 1730 Michel Narshalek de Charanville
1730 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(1st time)
1730 - 30 Aug 1736 Henri Dussault de Lamirande (b. ... - d. 1736)
1736 Henri de Poilvillain de Grenay
1736 - 1738 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(2nd time)
1738 - 1743 Antoine Le Moyne de Chateauguay (b. 1683 - d. 1747)
1743 - 1751 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(3rd time)
1751 - 1752 Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de
Saint-Michel Dunezat (1st time)
1752 - 1753 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(4th time)
1753 - 1757 Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de
Saint-Michel Dunezat (2nd time)
1757 - 1763 Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers
(5th time)
1763 - 1764 Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague
(1st time) (b. 1727 - d. 1813)
1764 Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond
(1st time)
1764 - 1765 Étienne François de Turgot (b. 1721 - d. 1789)
1765 - 1766 Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1766 - 1781 Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond
(2nd time)
1781 - 1785 Ferdinand Alexandre de Bessner
1785 Louis de Lavallière
1785 - 1787 Thomas de FitzMaurice
May 1787 - 22 Oct 1788 Pierre François de Mareuilh de
Villeboi (b. ... - d. 1788)
1788 - 1789 Charles Guillaume Vial d'Alais
1789 - 1791 Jacques Martin de Bourgon
1791 - 1792 Henri Benoît
1792 - 1793 Frédéric Guillot
14 Apr 1793 - Nov 1794 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin
(1st time) (b. 1762 - d. 1828)
Nov 1794 - Apr 1796 François Maurice Cointet de
Fillain (b. 1766 - d. 1809)
Apr 1796 - Nov 1798 Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Nov 1798 - 2 Dec 1799 Pierre Burnel (b. 1762 - d. ...)
13 Dec 1799 - 8 Jan 1800 Étienne Franconie (b. 1729? - d. 18...)
8 Jan 1800 - 1809 Victor Hugues (b. 1762 - d. 1826)
[edit] Governor of the Colony of French Guiana during the Portuguese/Brazilian occupation (1809 - 1817)
1809 - 8 Nov 1817 João Severiano Maciel da Costa (b. 1769 - d. 1833)
(Portuguese governor)
[edit] Governors of the Second French Colony of Guiana/French Guiana (1817 - 19 March 1946)
1817 - 1819 Jean-François Carra Saint-Cyr (b. 1756 - d. 1834)
25 Jan 1819 - 12 Mar 1823 Pierre Clément de Laussat (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1823 - 1825 Pierre Bernard de Milius (b. 1773 - d. 1829)
1825 - 1826 Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard
1826 - 1827 Joseph Burgues de Missiessy
1827 - 1829 Louis Henri de Saulces de
Freycinet (b. 1777 - d. 1840)
1 Jun 1829 - 11 Apr 1836 Jean-Guillaume Jubelin (b. 1787 - d. 18...)
1836 - 1837 François Dominique Laurens de
Choisy
1837 - 1839 Paul de Nourquer du Camper
1839 - 1841 Augustin Gourbeyre (b. 1786 - d. 1845)
1841 - 1843 Guillaume Charmasson de Puylaval (b. 1780 - d. 18...)
1843 - 1845 Jean-François Layrle (b. 1791 - d. 1881)
1845 - 1846 Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand
Cadéot
18 Feb 1846 - 16 May 1850 André Aimé Pariset (b. 1795 - d. 1872)
1850 - 6 Jan 1851 Louis Eugène Maissin (b. 1811 - d. 1851)
1851 Jean François Marie Félix
Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes (b. 1796 - d. ...)
Mar 1851 - May 1852 Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de
Chabannes-Curton (b. 1803 - d. 1889)
1852 - 1853 Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga (b. 1808 - d. 1877)
1853 - 1854 Martin Fourichon (b. 1809 - d. 1884)
1854 - 1855 Louis Adolphe Bonard (b. 1805 - d. 1867)
1855 - Jan 1856 Antoine Alphonse Masset
Jan 1856 - 1859 Auguste Baudin (b. 1800 - d. 1877)
15 May 1859 - 1 May 1864 Louis Tardy de Montravel (b. 1811 - d. 1864)
1864 - 1865 Antoine Favre
1865 - 1870 Agathon Hennique (b. 1810 - d. 1870)
30 Apr 1870 - Aug 1877 Jean-Louis Loubère (b. 1820 - d. ...)
(acting to 1871)
1877 - 1880 Marie Alfred Armand Huart (b. 1826 - d. ...)
1880 - 1883 Charles Alexandre Lacouture (b. 1829 - d. 1917)
1883 - 1884 Henri Isidore Chessé (b. 1839 - d. ...)
1884 - 1885 Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon (b. 1843 - d. ...)
1885 - 1887 Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal (b. 1830 - d. ...)
1888 - 1891 Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus
Gerville-Réache (b. 1849 - d. ...)
Apr 1891 - 1893 Albert Grodet (1st time) (acting) (b. 1853 - d. 1933)
1893 Paul Fawtier (b. 1837 - d. 1903)
24 Apr 1893 - 4 Aug 1895 Camille Charvein (b. 1834 - d. ...) 30 Aug 1895 - 13 Jun 1896 Henri de Lamothe (b. 1843 - d. 1926)
1896 - 1898 Henri Danel (b. 1850 - d. ...)
1898 Henri Charles Roberdeau (b. 1849 - d. 1916)
1899 Louis Mouttet (b. 1857 - d. 1902)
1899 - 1903 Émile Merwart
1903 - 1904 Albert Grodet (2nd time) (s.a.)
1905 Charles Marchal (b. 1855 - d. 1917)
1905 - 1906 Victor François Ferdinand Rey
1906 Louis Alphonse Bonhoure (b. 1864 - d. 1909)
20 Jan 1906 - 5 Jul 1907 Édouard Picanon (b. 1854 - d. 1939)
1907 - 1909 François Pierre Rodier (b. 1854 - d. 19...)
1909 - 1910 William Maurice Fawtier (b. 1867 - d. 19...)
1910 Fernand Ernest Thérond
1910 - 31 May 1911 Paul Samary (b. 1848 - d. 1911)
1911 Denys Joseph Goujon (b. 1863 - d. 19...)
1911 - 1914 Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
(1st time) (b. 1870 - d. 19...)
1914 - 1916 Fernand Ernest Lévecque
1916 Pierre Jean Henri Didelot
(2nd time) (s.a.)
1916 - 1917 Georges Lévy (b. 1867 - d. 19...)
1917 Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret (b. 1866 - d. 19...)
1917 - 1918 Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre
1918 - 1923 Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune
1923 Julien Edgard Cantau
20 Nov 1923 - 1926 Marc Émile Chanel (b. 1882 - d. 1943)
1926 - 1927 Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly
1927 Adrien Juvanon (b. 1875 - d. 19...)
1927 - 1928 Émile Buhot-Launay (b. 1881 - d. 1970)
1928 - 1929 Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet
1929 - 1931 Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous
27 May 1931 - 1933 Louis Bouge (acting) (b. 1878 - d. 1960)
1933 - 1935 Julien Georges Lamy
2 Jun 1935 - 1936 Max de Masson de Saint-Félix (b. ... - d. 1939)
1936 Pierre Tap
1936 - 1938 René Veber (1st time)
1938 - 1942 Robert Paul Chot-Plassot
1942 - 1943 René Veber (2nd time)
1943 - 1944 Jean Rapenne (b. 1901)
1944 - 1946 Jules Surlemont (acting) (b. 1897 - d. 1983)
1946 (19 March declared Overseas territory) Jean Pezet
[edit] Prefects of the French Overseas Territory of French Guiana (19 March 1946 - 1982)
Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic) 1946 Jean Pezet 16 Aug 1947 - 1 Jun 1955 Robert Vignon (b. 1910 - d. 1989)
1 Jun 1955 - 16 Sep 1957 Pierre Malvy (b. 1909) 1 Oct 1957 - 1 Nov 1958 Pierre Voitellier (b. 1910)
13 Oct 1958 - 1 Dec 1960 André Dubois-Chabert (b. 1913 - d. 1992)
(acting for Voitellier to 1 Nov 1958)
1 Dec 1960 - 1 Dec 1963 René Erignac (b. 1909)
1 Dec 1963 - 16 Aug 1967 René Letellier (b. 1914)
16 Aug 1967 - 16 Jul 1970 Paul Bouteiller (b. 1921) 16 Jul 1970 - 1 Feb 1972 Jean Monfraix (b. 1918)
1 Feb 1972 - 8 Feb 1974 Jacques Robert Delaunay (b. 1921) 5 Mar 1974 - 20 May 1977 Hervé Bourseillier (b. 1925)
20 May 1977 - 10 Feb 1980 Jean Le Direach (b. 1924) 10 Feb 1980 - 27 Jul 1981 Antoine Carli (b. 1924) 27 Jul 1981 - 10 May 1982 Maxime Gonzalvo (b. 1917)
[edit] Commissioners of the republic of the French Overseas Territory of French Guiana (10 May 1982 - 24 Feb 1988)
10 May 1982 - 22 Jul 1982 Maxime Gonzalvo (b. 1917)
Jul 1982 - 1984 Claude Silberzahn (b. 1935)
1984 - 1986 Bernard Courtois (b. 1935)
1986 - Aug 1988 Jacques Dewatre (b. 1936)
22 Aug 1988 - 16 May 1990 Jean-Pierre Lacroix (b. 1942) 19 Jun 1990 - May 1992 Jean-François Di Chiara (b. 1941?) 27 May 1992 - 6 Jan 1995 Jean-François Cordet (b. 1951)
6 Jan 1995 - 3 Feb 1997 Pierre Dartout (b. 1954) 3 Feb 1997 - 2 Aug 1999 Dominique Vian (b. 1944) 2 Aug 1999 - 2 Sep 2002 Henri Masse (b. 1947) 2 Sep 2002 - Aug 2006 Ange Mancini (b. 1944)
28 Aug 2006 - Jean-Pierre Laflaquière (b. 1947)

