Note: currently, the prefect is not the true deparmental head, which is the president of the general council. The prefect is merely the representative of the national government.
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| French Suzerainty
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| 28 June 1635 | French colony
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| c.1637 to 1640 | L'Olive, Governor
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| 1640 to c.1643 | Jean Soulon sieur de Sabouïlly, Governor
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| 1643 to c.1664 | Charles Houël du Petit Pré, Governor
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| 1695 to 1702 | Charles Auger, Governor
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| 1702 to 1703 | De Mahaut, Governor
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| 1703 to 1706 | Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet, Governor
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| 1706 to 1717 | Hemon Coinard de la Malmaison, Governor
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| 1717 to 1719 | Michel Savinien Lagarigue de Savigny, Governor
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| 1719 to 1728 | Alexandre Vaultier, comte de Moyencourt, Governor
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| 1728 to 1734 | Robert Giraud du Poyet, Governor
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| 1734 to 1737 | Charles de Brunier, marquis de Larnage, Governor
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| 1737 to 1753 | Gabriel d'Erchigny de Clieu, Governor
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| 1753 to 1757 | Jean Antoine Joseph de Mirabeau, Governor
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| 1757 to 1759 | Charles François Emmanuel Nadau du Treil, Governor
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| British Suzerainty
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| April 1759 to 1763 | British occupation
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| April 1759 to 1760 | Byam Crump, Governor
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| 1760 to 1763 | Campbell Dalrymple, Governor
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| French Suzerainty
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| 1763 to 1764 | François Charles de Bourlamaque, Governor
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| 1764 to 1765 | Édouard de Copley, Governor
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| 20 March 1765 to 29 November 1768 | Pierre Gédéon de Nolivos, Governor
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| 1768 to 1769 | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic, Governor
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| 1769 to 1771 | François Claude Amour du Chariol, marquis de Bouillé, Governor
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| 1771 to 1773 | Louis François de Dion, Governor
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| 1773 to 1775 | Édouard Hilaire Louis de Tilly, Governor
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| 1775 to 1782 | Bache Elzéar Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques, Governor
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| 1782 to 1783 | Claude Charles de Marillac, vicomte de Damas, Governor
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| 1783 to 1784 | Beaumé de la Saulais, Governor
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| 1784 to 25 July 1792 | Charles François de Clugny de Thénissey, Governor
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| 1792 to 1793 | René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot, interim Governor
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| 5 January 1793 to 18 March 1793 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, provisional Governor
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| 18 March 1793 to 20 April 1794 | Victor Collot, Governor
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| British Suzerainty
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| 20 April 1794 to 7 June 1794 | British occupation
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| 20 April 1794 to 3 June 1794 | Thomas Dundas, Governor
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| 7 June 1794 to 6 January 1795 | Victor Hugues, Commissioner
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| 6 January 1795 to January 1796 | Victor Hugues, Co-Commissioner
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| Lebas, Co-Commissioner
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| 6 January 1795 to June 1795 | Goyrand, Co-Commissioner
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| January 1796 to 25 October 1797 | Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive Directory
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| Lebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory
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| 25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801 | Département'
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| 25 October 1797 to 22 November 1798 | Victor Hugues, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent
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| Lebas, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent
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| 22 November 1798 to 3 October 1799 | Edme Étienne Borne-Desfourneaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory
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| 3 October 1799 to 11 December 1799 | Paris, provisional Agent of the French Executive Directory
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| 11 December 1799 to 30 May 1801 | Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent
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| 11 December 1799 to 30 December 1800 | René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent
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| 11 December 1799 to 28 February 1800 | Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc, comte de Laveaux, Agent of the French Executive Directory | Co-Agent
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| 28 February 1800 to 30 May 1801 | Bresseau | Co-Agent
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| 30 May 1801 to 14 May 1802 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General | 1st Term
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| 24 October 1801 to 6 May 1802 | Magloire Pélage, President of Provisional Council of Government | In rebellion
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| 14 May 1802 to 3 September 1802 | Antoine Richepance, Captain-General
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| 4 August 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General
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| 4 August 1802 to 3 September 1802 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse, Captain-General | 2nd Term
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| 3 September 1802 to 8 May 1803 | Jean Baptiste Raymond Lacrosse acting for Richepance, Captain-General
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| 8 May 1803 to 6 February 1810 | Jean Augustin Ernouf, Captain-General
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| British Suzerainty
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| 6 February 1810 to 7 December 1814 | British occupation
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| 6 February 1810 to 26 June 1813 | Sir Alexander Cochrane, Governor
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| 26 June 1813 to December 1814 | John Skinner, Governor
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| French Suzerainty
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| 7 December 1814 to 12 December 1814
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| 12 December 1814 to 10 August 1815 | Charles Durand, comte de Linois, Governor
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| British Suzerainty
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| 10 August 1815 to 25 July 1816 | British occupation
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| 10 August 1815 to 24 April 1816 | Sir James Leith, Governor
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| 24 April 1816 to 25 July 1816
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| French Suzerainty
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| 1816 to 1823 | Antoine Philippe de Lardenoy, Governor
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| 1823 to 1826 | Louis Léon Jacob, Governor
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| 31 May 1826 to 1830 | Jean Julien Angot des Rotours, Governor
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| 31 January 1830 to 8 July 1831 | Louis François Vatable, Governor
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| 1831 to 20 June 1837 | René Arnous des Saulsays, Governor
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| 1837 to 1841 | Jean-Guillaume Jubelin, Governor
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| 1841 to 7 June 1845 | Augustin Gourbeyre, Governor
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| 24 August 1845 to 5 June 1848 | Jean-François Layrle, Governor
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| 5 June 1848 to 1848 | Alexandre Gatine, acting Governor
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| 1848 to 1849 | Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre. acting Governor
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| 1849 to 1849 | Jean Jacques Louis Fabvre
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| 9 September 1849 to 1851 | Jacques Amédée Philippe Fiéron
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| 1851 to 1851 | Chaumont, acting Governor
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| 15 September 1851 to 1853 | Tranquille Aubry-Bailleul, Governor
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| 30 September 1853 to 1856 | Philibert Augustin Bonfils, Governor
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| 1856 to 1857 | Guillet, acting Governor
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| March 1857 to April 1859 | Philippe Victor Touchard, Governor
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| 1859 to January 1860 | Louis Bontemps, Governor
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| January 1860 to 1864 | Charles Victor Frébault, Governor
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| 1864 to 1864 | Desmazes, acting Governor
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| 1864 to 1870 | Louis Hippolyte de Lormel, Governor
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| 1870 to 1880 | Gabriel Couturier, Governor
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| 1880 to 1881 | Mazé, acting Governor
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| 1881 to 1886 | Léonce Laugier, Governor
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| 1886 to 1886 | Sainte-Luce, acting Governor
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| 1886 to 1891 | Antoine Frédéric Henry Le Boucher, Governor
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| 1891 to 1894 | Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet, Governor
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| 1894 to 1895 | Noël Pardon, Governor
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| 1895 to 1901 | Delphino Moracchini, Governor
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| 1901 to 1903 | Martial Merlin, Governor
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| 1903 to 1905 | Paul Marie Armand de La Loyère, Governor
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| 1905 to 1907 | Léon Jules Pol Boulloche, Governor
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| 1907 to 1909 | Victor Marie Louis Ballot, Governor
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| 1909 to 1910 | Henri Cor, Governor
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| 1911 to 1913 | Jean Jules Émile Peuvergne, Governor
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| 1913 to 1917 | Émile Merwart, Governor
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| 1917 to 1920 | Maurice Gourbeil, Governor
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| 1920 to 1924 | Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat, Governor
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| 1924 to 1924 | Jocelyn Robert, Governor
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| 1924 to 1926 | Maurice Beurnier, Governor
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| 1926 to 1929 | Louis Gerbinis, Governor
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| 1929 to 1931 | Théophile Antoine Pascal Tellier, Governor
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| 1931 to 1934 | Alphonse Choteau, Governor
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| 1934 to 1936 | Louis Bouge, Governor
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| 1936 to 1938 | Félix Éboué, Governor
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| 29 November 1938 to 21 February 1940 | François Pierre-Alype, Governor
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| 30 April 1940 to 15 July 1943 | Constant Sorin, Governor
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| 1944 to 1946 | Maurice Pierre Eugène Bertaut, Governor
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| 19 March 1946 | French overseas département
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| 30 April 1946 to 12 October 1947 | Ernest de Nattes, Governor
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| 26 December 1947 to 24 November 1950 | Gilbert Eugène Félicien Marie Philipson, Prefect
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| 16 January 1951 to 18 May 1954 | Gaston Villéger, Prefect
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| 18 May 1954 to 18 December 1955 | Jacques Ravail, Prefect
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| 22 December 1955 to 22 May 1956 | Guy Malines, acting Prefect
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| 22 May 1956 to 6 March 1958 | Guy Malines, Prefect
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| 6 March 1958 to 1 October 1960 | Jean-Pierre Abeille, Prefect
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| 1 October 1960 to 1 August 1965 | Albert Bonhomme, Prefect
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| 1 August 1965 to 12 July 1967 | Pierre Bolotte, Prefect
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| 16 August 1967 to 16 December 1969 | Jean Deleplanque, Prefect
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| 16 December 1969 to 1 July 1973 | Pierre Mathieu Brunon, Prefect
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| 12 July 1973 to 15 November 1975 | Jacques Le Cornec, Prefect
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| 15 November 1975 to 15 October 1978 | Jean-Claude Aurousseau, Prefect
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| 15 October 1978 to 28 February 1982 | Guy Maillard, Prefect
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| 28 February 1982 to 10 May 1982 | Robert Miguet, Prefect
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| 10 May 1982 to 13 February 1984 | Robert Miguet, Commissioner of the Republic
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| February 1984 to April 1986 | Maurice Saborin, Commissioner of the Republic
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| 9 April 1986 to 4 November 1987 | Yves Bonnet, Commissioner of the Republic
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| 4 November 1987 to 24 February 1988 | Bernard Sarazin, Commissioner of the Republic
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| 24 February 1988 to November 1989 | Bernard Sarazin, Prefect
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| November 1989 to 18 July 1991 | Jean-Paul Proust, Prefect
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| 31 July 1991 to 6 October 1993 | Franck Perriez, Prefect
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| 6 October 1993 to 21 November 1994 | Alain Frouté, Prefect
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| 21 November 1994 to 16 October 1996 | Michel Diefenbacher, Prefect
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| 12 November 1996 to 16 August 1999 | Jean Fedini, Prefect
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| 16 August 1999 to 6 August 2002 | Jean-François Carenco, Prefect
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| 6 August 2002 to 7 July 2004 | Dominique Vian, Prefect
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| 7 july 2004 to present | Paul Girot de Langlade, Prefect
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