List of governors of La Réunion

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The Governor of Bourbon or La Réunion was a French colonial role. When the island became a French overseas department in 1946, the role was replaced by a prefect.

For the French West India Company[]

Start End Governor
5 August 1665 8 May 1671 Étienne Regnault
9 May 1671 End of November 1674
End of November 1674 17 June 1678
18 June 1678 January 1680
January 1680 1 December 1686
2 December 1686 9 December 1689
11 December 1689 26 November 1690
26 November 1690 2 July 1696
1 August 1696 6 June 1698
21 October 1699 13 May 1701
12 June 1701 5 March 1709
7 March 1709 24 March 1710
22 April 1710 14 November 1715
4 December 1715 14 February 1718
6 September 1718 22 August 1723 Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant
23 August 1723 1 December 1725
2 December 1725 28 May 1727
21 July 1727 11 July 1735
12 July 1735 1 October 1735 Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais
2 October 1735 30 September 1739
11 November 1739 12 December 1743 Pierre-André d'Héguerty
13 December 1743 8 May 1745
15 May 1745 31 October 1745 Jean-Baptiste Azéma
1 November 1745 18 December 1745
29 December 1745 28 March 1747
14 April 1747 11 November 1748
22 November 1748 17 March 1749
24 May 1749 23 August 1749
6 September 1749 16 October 1750 Joseph Brenier
16 October 1750 14 décembre 1752 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
12 July 1757 15 October 1757
19 October 1757 6 September 1763 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
7 September 1763 14 October 1763 Jean Sentuary
5 November 1763 30 March 1767
31 March 1767 4 November 1767

For the king of France[]

Start End Governor
1 November 1767 26 July 1772
20 October 1772 4 March 1773
27 July 1773 4 October 1773
15 December 1773 15 October 1776
26 October 1776 30 April 1779 François de Souillac
25 May 1779 22 August 1781
25 August 1781 21 April 1785
2 May 1785 15 February 1788
21 February 1788 15 August 1790 David Charpentier de Cossigny

French Revolution and British occupation[]

Start End Governor
8 September 1790 18 October 1792
19 October 1792 11 April 1794
12 April 1794 1 November 1795
2 November 1795 7 October 1803
10 November 1803 31 December 1805
9 January 1806 25 September 1809 Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys
9 October 1809 8 July 1810 Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne
9 July 1810 20 December 1810 Robert Townsend Farquhar
20 December 1810 26 April 1811 Henry Sheehy Keating
26 April 1811 10 July 1811 Robert Townsend Farquhar
10 July 1811 5 April 1815 Henry Sheehy Keating

Bourbon Restoration to Second French Empire[]

Start End Governor
6 April 1815 30 June 1817
1 July 1817 9 September 1818
13 September 1818 14 February 1821
15 February 1821 14 October 1826
20 October 1826 4 July 1830
5 July 1830 7 November 1832
8 November 1832 4 May 1838
5 May 1838 14 October 1841 Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell
15 October 1841 4 June 1846
5 June 1846 13 October 1848
13 October 1848 7 March 1850 Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga
9 March 1850 14 February 1851
15 February 1851 8 August 1852
8 August 1852 8 January 1858
11 January 1858 27 March 1858 Lefevre
28 March 1858 19 September 1863
4 January 1865 23 October 1869 Marie Jules Dupré
27 September 1869 18 September 1875 Louis Hippolyte de Lormel

French Third Republic[]

Start End Governor
19 November 1875 29 April 1879 Pierre Aristide Faron
6 May 1879 23 March 1886
11 October 1886 16 December 1887
16 December 1887 21 August 1888
22 August 1888 7 May 1891
7 May 1891 20 November 1891
20 November 1891 10 July 1893
11 July 1893 21 June 1895
22 June 1895 12 August 1895
13 August 1895 19 May 1896
19 May 1896 30 October 1900
30 October 1900 19 February 1901
19 February 1901 29 July 1905
29 July 1905 30 August 1906
30 August 1906 7 November 1906
8 November 1906 27 December 1907 Adrien Bonhoure
1 January 1908 19 March 1908
19 March 1908 18 January 1910
18 January 1910 17 September 1910
11 July 1910 28 July 1910
18 September 1910 28 July 1912 François Pierre Rodier
30 August 1912 22 November 1912
23 November 1913 1 June 1919 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
2 June 1919 26 July 1920
27 July 1920 5 September 1922
6 September 1922 21 August 1923
22 August 1923 2 October 1924
31 March 1925 10 September 1928
10 September 1928 17 May 1930
17 May 1930 28 November 1932
28 November 1932 13 June 1934
14 June 1934 29 May 1936
29 May 1936 16 August 1936
17 August 1936 27 October 1938
28 October 1938 29 December 1939
30 December 1939 1 December 1942
1 December 1942 17 July 1947

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