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Intendant de la Marine - French

Extant from : 1659/03
Date fromDate toHolderSource
1673/07/131674/10/18
Nicolas ArnoulFrench
Administrator
Service 1640-1674
(Toulon)
FWIKI
16741679 (Toulon)ref:673
16791682
Jean Baptiste PatouletFrench
Administrator
Service 1666-1686
(Îles et Terre Ferme de l'Amérique)

with the objective of increasing the population there , stimulating trade and preventing foreign trade .

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1680  (Le Havre)ref:673
16801685
Jean Louis de GirardinFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1665-1723
(Toulon)
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16821685/05 (Saint-Domingue)

real end , march 1685

FWIKI
1682/05/011684/11/25 (Windward Islands)

real end March 1685

FWIKI
1683/061684
Jean Baptiste PatouletFrench
Administrator
Service 1666-1686
(Dunkirk)
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16841685
Jean Louis de GirardinFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1665-1723
(Marseille)

by interim

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16841688 (Rochefort)ref:673
1686/09/231702/10/05 (Nouvelle-France)FWIKI
1688 
Jean Louis de GirardinFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1665-1723
(Rochefort)
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1688/09/011710/03/14 (Rochefort)FWIKI
1690 
Louvigny d’OrgemontFrench
Administrator
Service 1690
(Le Havre)
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16951701
François Roger RobertFrench
Administrator
Service 1682-1732
(Îles et Terre Ferme de l'Amérique)
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1702 
François Roger RobertFrench
Administrator
Service 1682-1732
(Dunkirk)

Nomined but don't go there .

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17021705 (Nouvelle-France)ref:673
17031704/07/01
Jean François CroizetFrench
Administrator
Service 1677-1704
(Îles et Terre Ferme de l'Amérique)

Nomined ( no date) , but did not go there , on the grounds that his brother , ordinary commissioner , died there in 1691 after two years of service , a victim of the weather .

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17031726
François Roger RobertFrench
Administrator
Service 1682-1732
(Brest)
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1704 
Henri Jules du GuayFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1666-1715
(Îles et Terre Ferme de l'Amérique)

But did not go there .

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17041714
Henri Jules du GuayFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1666-1715
(Dunkirk)
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17041721
Nicolas François ArnoulFrench
Administrator
Service 1704-1721
(Îles et Terre Ferme de l'Amérique)

end ??

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1708/10/021720/05/06 (Saint-Domingue)

commission by Interim .

FWIKI
1710/03/311726/09/02 (Nouvelle-France)FWIKI
1711/03/24  (Rochefort)ref:631
1713 
François Clairambault d’AigremontFrench
Administrator
Service 1680-1728
(Nouvelle-France)

by Interim

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1715/121717
Louis Balthazar Ricouart d’Hérouville (Comte d’Hérouville)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1693-1739
(Martinique)

He arrived in January 1717 .
With the support of Governor Varennes , it was decided to impose their will on the settler landowners and to compel them to obey .
In particular, to abandon certain cultures and to cease trade with abroad . The measures taken trigger a revolt of the great colonists , known as the Gaoulé (Chahut), at the end of which , on May 23 , the insurgents having seized the two Agents of the King , forced them to re-embark for France .

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17161719 (Toulon)ref:673
1720 
Louis Balthazar Ricouart d’Hérouville (Comte d’Hérouville)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1693-1739
(Dunkirk)
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17201723 (Le Havre)ref:673
1720/05/071737/06/30 (Toulon)ref:631
1720/10/061725/12/17
François de MontholonFrench
Administrator
Service 1702-1725
(Saint-Domingue)

for justice , police and finance

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17231736 (Le Havre)

He could not, however, leave Quebec before 1726, because his two designated successors died in turn at sea during their voyages.

FWIKI
1726/091732
François Roger RobertFrench
Administrator
Service 1682-1732
(Brest)
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1728  (Martinique)ref:673
1728 
François Clairambault d’AigremontFrench
Administrator
Service 1680-1728
(Nouvelle-France)

by Interim

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1731/02/211748/09/02
Gilles Hocquart de ChampernyFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1702-1764
(Nouvelle-France)

took post at the new of the 20/08/1731

FWIKI
17351737/11/09 (Saint-Domingue)ref:673
17361749
Jacques Bigot (Seigneur de la Mothe et de St Pierre)French
Administrator
Service 1693-1711
(Brest)
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1738/07/011749
Simon Pierre Maillart de BerronFrench
Administrator
Service 1710-1753
(Windward Islands)

at Saint-Domingue

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1739 
Louis Balthazar Ricouart d’Hérouville (Comte d’Hérouville)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1693-1739
(Rochefort)
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1744/01/011745
Jean Louis Albert de RancheFrench
Administrator
Service 1720-1762
(Martinique)

by interim

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17461749
Jean Louis Albert de RancheFrench
Administrator
Service 1720-1762
(Martinique)
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1749/04/011764/09/30
Gilles Hocquart de ChampernyFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1702-1764
(Brest)

He nevertheless continued his duties as intendant in Brest until the arrival of his successor Clugny de Nuits at the end of July 1765 .

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17541762
Jean Louis Albert de RancheFrench
Administrator
Service 1720-1762
(Le Havre)
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1757/011758
Claude Ange de LambertFrench
Administrator
Service 1722-1758
(Saint-Domingue)
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1757/06/121770/11/30 (Rochefort)ref:673
1760/011764/03
Jean Etienne Bernard de Clugny de Nuits (Baron de Nuits sur Armançon)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1748-1775
(Saint-Domingue)

He undertakes to reduce the powers of military leaders in favor of civilian administrators .
He takes over the financial administration , puts the accounts in order , reorganizes the keeping of public accounts .
December 1760: he sets up two chambers , part of agriculture and commerce in Cap Français and Port au Prince , which will be replaced in 1763 by two chambers of agriculture .
In 1761 : he orders a survey of the colony to be carried out .
He proceeded to abolish the exclusive, a measure that led to a boom in trade in the colony .
In January 1764 : he voted to lift the so-called "four million" tax for five years .

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1765/111770
Jean Etienne Bernard de Clugny de Nuits (Baron de Nuits sur Armançon)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1748-1775
(Brest)

He put the finances of the port in order and liquidated the debts of the Navy .
During his stay in Bret he enlarged the port and the arsenal by completing the cleaning of the Penfeld and in particular built new stores, a bakery , an artillery store and a ball park .
Under his direction , the arsenal built between 1765 and 1770 , thanks to engineers Groignard and Ollivier , 10 vessels , 3 frigates , 3 corvettes and overhaul 10 vessels .
He improves the recruitment of apprentice gunners .

In February 1766 , he opened the Brest School of Hydrography and had the Brest Theater Hall built .
In April 1770 , he takes possession on behalf of the Navy of the port of Lorient , following the cession to the King of all the assets of the Compagnie des Indes .

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1770/12/011776/05/29 (Brest)ref:631
17711776
François Ambroise d'Aubanton de VauraouxFrench
Administrator
Service 1771-1776
(Rochefort)
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1771/081772/08
Jacques Maillart de MesleFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1755-1778
(Mascareignes)

aka Intendant des Iles de France et de Bourbon : acting not nomined

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17741780
Jean Baptiste Guillemin de VaivreFrench
Administrator
Service 1774-1807
(Windward Islands)

in Post at Saint-Domingue .

Membre du Comité colonial et Commissaire à l’Administration des Missions Etrangères.

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1775/09 
Jean Etienne Bernard de Clugny de Nuits (Baron de Nuits sur Armançon)French
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1748-1775
(Bordeaux)
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1776/11 
Jacques Prevost de La CroixFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1729-1782
(Provence)

with residence at Toulon

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1776/11 
Jacques Prevost de La CroixFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1729-1782
(Languedoc)

with residence at Toulon

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1776/11/09 
Arnaud de La PorteFrench
Administrator
Service 1756-1789
(Brest)
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1776/12/291784/06
Jacques MarchaisFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1745-1784
(Rochefort)
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1776/12/291784/06
Jacques MarchaisFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1745-1784
(Bordeaux)
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17811789
Pierre Victor MalouetFrench
Administrator
Service 1763-1810
(Toulon)
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1781/11/171785/05/09
Frédéric Joseph GuillotFrench
Naval Sailor
Administrator
Service 1753-1802
(Brest)
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17851791 (Rochefort)ref:673
bef.1814  (Ragusa)ref:673
18151817/04/26
Pierre Gaétan du PontFrench
Administrator
Service 1790-1817
(Toulon)
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18151817/11/12 (Rochefort)ref:673
1815/12/161817/11/12
Gabriel Mathieu Simond de MoydierFrench
Administrator
Service 1815-1817
(Brest)
FWIKI
1817/11/12  (Toulon)

Allows a large number of convicts to become workers of different professions, to create a real economy and thus the expansion of the port of Toulon .
Visit Corsica to see the resources favorable to shipbuilding .
Following distressing family events (death of his wife) , he returned to Paris and was appointed councilor of state and director of colonies : no date

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1826/02/26 
Jean Baptiste FromantFrench
Administrator
Service 1814-1826
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