Joseph François Dupleix

Joseph François Dupleix

male, deceased (1763)
Joseph François Dupleix was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the great rival of Robert Clive. Dupleix was born in L...
Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

male, deceased (1683)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He was described by Mme de...
Pierre Poivre

Pierre Poivre

male, deceased (1786)
Pierre Poivre (August 23, 1719 - January 6, 1786) was a French horticulturalist born in Lyon. In his early 20s he was a missionary in Far Eastern...

Bertrand-François Mahé de la Bourdonnais

male, deceased (1753)
Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (comte de La Bourdonnais was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East In...

François Martin

male
François Martin was the first Governor General of Pondicherry. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. He was C...

Antoine Boyellau

male
Antoine Boyellau was Governor General of Pondicherry under the French East India Company
Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Baudin

male, deceased (1803)
Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a French explorer. Baudin was born in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Ile de Ré. At the age of fifteen he joined the merchant na...
Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland

male, deceased (1715)
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the...

Étienne de Flacourt

male, deceased (1660)
Etienne de Flacourt was a French governor of Madagascar, born at Orléans in 1607. He was named governor of Madagascar by the French East India C...

Abraham Momber van de Velde

male
Abraham Momber Van de Velde was the last Dutch governor of Mauritius and served until 1710. The next colonial governor did not arrive until 1715...