to factories or insulated establishments consisting of a home with an adjacent ground, where France had the right to fly its flag and form trading posts. List of chief governing officers Commissioners François Caron, 1668–1672 François Baron, 1672–1681 François Martin, 1681 – November 1693 Dutch occupation, September 1693 – September 1699 — Treaty of Ryswick (1697) Governors In the days of the French East India Company, the title of the top official was most of the time Governor of Pondicherry and General Commander of the French settlements in the East Indies (). After 1816, it was Governor of French establishments in India (). François Martin, September 1699 – 31 December 1706 Pierre Dulivier (Acting), January 1707 – July 1708 Guillaume André d'Hébert, 1708–1712 Pierre Dulivier, 1713–1715 Guillaume André d'Hébert, 1715–1718 Pierre André Prévost de La Prévostière, August 1718 – 11 October 1721 Pierre Christoph Le Noir (Acting), 1721–1723 Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant, 1723–1726 Pierre Christoph Le Noir, 1727–1734 Pierre Benoît Dumas, 1735–1741 Joseph François Dupleix, 14 January 1742 – 15 October 1754 Charles Godeheu, Le commissaire (Acting), 15 October 1754 – 1754 Georges Duval de Leyrit, 1756–1758 Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, 1758 – January 1761 First British occupation, January 15, 1761 – June 25, 1765 — Treaty of Paris (1763) Jean Law de Lauriston, 1765–1766 Antoine Boyellau (Acting), 1766–1767 Jean Law de Lauriston, 1767 – January 1777 Second British occupation, 1778 – 1783 – Treaty of Paris (1783) Guillaume de Bellecombe, seigneur de Teirac, January 1777 – 1778 Charles Joseph Pâtissier, Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, 1783–1785 François, Vicomte de Souillac, 1785 David Charpentier de Cossigny, October 1785 – 1787 Thomas, comte de Conway, October 1787 – 1789 Camille Charles Leclerc, chevalier de Fresne, 1789–1792 Dominique Prosper de Chermont, November 1792 – 1793 L. Leroux de Touffreville, 1793 Third British occupation, 23 August 1793 – 18 June 1802 — Treaty of Amiens (1802) Charles Matthieu Isidore, Comte Decaen, 18 June 1802 – August 1803 Louis François Binot, 1803 Fourth British occupation, August 1803 – 26 September 1816 — Treaty of Paris (1814) André Julien Comte Dupuy, 26 September 1816 – October 1825 Joseph Cordier, Marie Emmanuel (Acting), October 1825 – 19 June 1826 Eugène Desbassayns de Richemont, 1826 – 2 August 1828 Joseph Cordier, Marie Emmanuel (Acting), 2 August 1828 – 11 April 1829 Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay, 11 April 1829 – 3 May 1835 Hubert Jean Victor, Marquis