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Born 1884 • Bordeaux • France
Died October 21, 1963 (aged 79) • Paris • France
Title / Office governor-general (1940-1945), Indochina
Role In Vichy France
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Louis Faidherbe
Louis Faidherbe
governor of French Senegal
Louis-Adolphe Bonard
French admiral
Dupleix, engraving by Marie Champion de Cernel after a portrait by Sergent
Joseph-François Dupleix
French colonial official
Ferry
Jules Ferry
French statesman
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Leopold II
Leopold II
king of Belgium
Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard
British colonial administrator
Robert Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury
prime minister of United Kingdom
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
John II of Portugal
John II
king of Portugal
Manuel I
king of Portugal
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Charles III
Charles III
king of Spain
John I and John of Gaunt
John I
king of Portugal
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Stamford Raffles
British colonial agent
Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman
Sir Hercules Robinson
Sir Hercules Robinson
British colonial governor