List of governors of La Réunion

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 16658 May 1671Étienne Regnault
9 May 1671End of November 1674Jacques de La Heure
End of November 167417 June 1678Henry Esse d'Orgeret
18 June 1678January 1680Germain de Fleurimont Moulinier
January 16801 December 1686F. Bernardin de Quimper
2 December 16869 December 1689Jean-Baptiste Drouillard
11 December 168926 November 1690Henri Habert de Vauboulon
26 November 16902 July 1696Directoire de Saint-Paul
1 August 16966 June 1698Joseph Bastide
21 October 169913 May 1701Jacques de La Cour
12 June 17015 March 1709Jean-Baptiste de Villiers
7 March 170924 March 1710Michel François Des Bordes
22 April 171014 November 1715Antoine de Parat de Chaillenest
4 December 171514 February 1718Henry de Justamond
6 September 171822 August 1723Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant
23 August 17231 December 1725Antoine Desforges-Boucher
2 December 172528 May 1727Hélie Dioré
21 July 172711 July 1735Pierre-Benoît Dumas
12 July 17351 October 1735Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais
2 October 173530 September 1739Charles L'Emery Dumont
11 November 173912 December 1743Pierre-André d'Héguerty
13 December 17438 May 1745Didier de Saint-Martin
15 May 174531 October 1745Jean-Baptiste Azéma
1 November 174518 December 1745Didier de Saint-Martin
29 December 174528 March 1747Gérard Gaspard de Ballade
14 April 174711 November 1748Didier de Saint-Martin
22 November 174817 March 1749Gérard Gaspard de Ballade
24 May 174923 August 1749Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher
6 September 174916 October 1750Joseph Brenier
16 October 175014 décembre 1752Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
12 July 175715 October 1757Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher
19 October 17576 September 1763Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
7 September 176314 October 1763Jean Sentuary
5 November 176330 March 1767François Jacques Bertin
31 March 17674 November 1767Martin Adrien Bellier

For the king of France
Start End Governor
1 November 176726 July 1772Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe
20 October 17724 March 1773De Savourin
27 July 17734 October 1773Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe
15 December 177315 October 1776Jean Guillaume de Steynauer
26 October 177630 April 1779François de Souillac
25 May 177922 August 1781Joseph Murinay, comte de Saint-Maurice
25 August 178121 April 1785Joseph Chalvet, baron de Souville
2 May 178515 February 1788Elie Dioré
21 February 178815 August 1790David Charpentier de Cossigny

French Revolution and British occupation
Start End Governor
8 September 179018 October 1792Prosper de Chermont
19 October 179211 April 1794Jean-Baptiste Vigoureux du Plessis
12 April 17941 November 1795Pierre Alexandre Roubaud
2 November 17957 October 1803Pierre Antoine Jacob de Cordemoy
10 November 180331 December 1805François-Louis Magallon
9 January 180625 September 1809Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys
9 October 18098 July 1810Jean-Chrysostôme Bruneteau de Sainte-Suzanne
9 July 181020 December 1810Robert Townsend Farquhar
20 December 181026 April 1811Henry Sheehy Keating
26 April 181110 July 1811Robert Townsend Farquhar
10 July 18115 April 1815Henry Sheehy Keating

Bourbon Restoration to Second French Empire
Start End Governor
6 April 181530 June 1817Athanase Bouvet de Lozier
1 July 18179 September 1818Hilaire Urbain de Laffite du Courteil
13 September 181814 February 1821Pierre Bernard Milius
15 February 182114 October 1826Louis-Henri de Freycinet
20 October 18264 July 1830Achille Guy Marie, Comte de Cheffontaines
5 July 18307 November 1832Étienne-Henri Mengin du Val d'Ailly
8 November 18324 May 1838Jacques Philippe Cuvillier
5 May 183814 October 1841Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell
15 October 18414 June 1846Charles Léon Joseph Bazoche
5 June 184613 October 1848Joseph Graeb
13 October 18487 March 1850Joseph Napoléon Sébastien Sarda Garriga
9 March 185014 February 1851Marie-Bon-Ézéchiel Barolet de Puligny
15 February 18518 August 1852Louis Isaac Pierre Hilaire Doret
8 August 18528 January 1858Louis Henri Hubert Delisle
11 January 185827 March 1858Lefevre
28 March 185819 September 1863Rodolphe Augustin, baron Darricau
4 January 186523 October 1869Marie Jules Dupré
27 September 186918 September 1875Louis Hippolyte de Lormel

French Third Republic
Start End Governor
19 November 187529 April 1879Pierre Aristide Faron
6 May 187923 March 1886Pierre Étienne Cuinier
11 October 188616 December 1887Émile Richaud
16 December 188721 August 1888Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon
22 August 18887 May 1891Anne Louis Edouard Manès
7 May 189120 November 1891Jean-Baptiste Antoine Lougnon
20 November 189110 July 1893Anne Louis Edouard Manès
11 July 189321 June 1895Henri Éloi Danel
22 June 189512 August 1895Henri Roberdeau
13 August 189519 May 1896Benedict Jacob de Cordemoy
19 May 189630 October 1900Laurent Marie Émile Beauchamps
30 October 190019 February 1901Charles André Madre
19 February 190129 July 1905Paul Samary
29 July 190530 August 1906Fernand Théron
30 August 19067 November 1906Marius Verignon
8 November 190627 December 1907Adrien Bonhoure
1 January 190819 March 1908Henri Cor
19 March 190818 January 1910Camille Guy
18 January 191017 September 1910Philippe Émile Jullien
11 July 191028 July 1910Marie Joachim Stanislas Sice
18 September 191028 July 1912François Pierre Rodier
30 August 191222 November 1912Hubert Auguste Garbit
23 November 19131 June 1919Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat
2 June 191926 July 1920Victor Jean Brochard
27 July 19205 September 1922Frédéric Estebbe
6 September 192221 August 1923Henri Cleret de Langavant
22 August 19232 October 1924Maurice Lapalud
31 March 192510 September 1928Jules Vincent Repiquet
10 September 192817 May 1930Louis Fabre
17 May 193028 November 1932Jules Vincent Repiquet
28 November 193213 June 1934Louis Fabre
14 June 193429 May 1936Alfred Paul Albert Choteau
29 May 193616 August 1936Charles Victor Allard
17 August 193627 October 1938Léon Hippolyte 1e Truitard
28 October 193829 December 1939Joseph Court
30 December 19391 December 1942Pierre Émile Aubert
1 December 194217 July 1947André Capagorry
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