General Resident (France)

Resident General ( French: Résident général ) designated the highest representatives of France in the former protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia in French North Africa (until 1956), in the protectorate of Madagascar until the annexation in 1897 and in the protectorates of Cambodia , Tonkin and Annam (from the mid-1880s ; later renamed Résident supérieur ).

Lists

Annam (1884–1889) and Tonkin (1886–1889)

Annam only (1884–1886):

Pierre Paul Rheinart (interim; June to October 1884)
Victor-Gabriel Lemaire (October 1884 to May 1885)
Henri Roussel de Courcy (May 1885 to January 1886)

Tonkin only (1886):

Charles Warnet (interim; January to April 1886)

Annam and Tonkin (1886–1889):

Paul Bert (April to November 1886)
Alexandre Vial (interim; November 1886 to January 1887)
Georges Bihourd (January 1887 to January 1888)
Étienne Richaud (January to November 1888)
Pierre Paul Rheinart (2nd term; November 1888 to May 1889)

Cambodia (1885-1889)

Jules Victor Renaud (interim; August to October 1885)
Pierre de Badens (October 1885 to May 1886)
Jules Georges Piquet (May 1886 to November 1887)
Louis Eugène Palasne de Champeaux (November 1887 to March 1889)

Madagascar (1886-1896)

Charles Le Myre de Vilers (April 1886 to March 1888)
Paul-Augustin-Jean Larrouy (March 1888 to December 1889)
Maurice Bompard (December 1889 to October 1890)
Jean Aurélien Lacoste (October 1890 to October 1892)
Paul-Augustin-Jean Larrouy (2nd term; October 1892 to 1894)
Charles Le Myre de Vilers (2nd term; 1894 to December 1895)
Hippolyte Laroche (December 1895 to September 1896)

Morocco (1912–1956)

List of French General Residents for Morocco

This office lasted until independence in 1956.

Tunisia (1881–1956)

List of French ministers, general and high commissioners in Tunisia