de Saint-Simon, 3 May 1835 – April 1840 Paul de Nourquer du Camper, April 1840 – 1844 Louis Pujol, 1844–1849 Hyacinthe Marie de Lalande de Calan, 1849–1850 Philippe Achille Bédier, 1851–1852 Raymond de Saint-Maur, August 1852 – April 1857 Alexandre Durand d'Ubraye, April 1857 – January 1863 Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps, January 1863 – June 1871 Antoine-Léonce Michaux, June 1871 – November 1871 Pierre Aristide Faron, November 1871 – 1875 Adolph Joseph Antoine Trillard, 1875–1878 Léonce Laugier, February 1879 – April 1881 Théodore Drouhet, 1881 – October 1884 Étienne Richaud, October 1884 – 1886 Édouard Manès, 1886–1888 Georges Jules Piquet, 1888–1889 Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet, 1889–1891 Léon Émile Clément-Thomas, 1891–1896 Louis Jean Girod, 1896 – February 1898 François Pierre Rodier, February 1898 – 11 January 1902 Louis Pelletan (Acting), 11 January 1902 Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac, 1902–1904 Philema Lemaire, August 1904 – April 1905 Joseph Pascal François, April 1905 – October 1906 Gabriel Louis Angoulvant, October 1906 – 3 December 1907 Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure, 1908–1909 Ernest Fernand Lévecque, 1909 – 9 July 1910 Alfred Albert Martineau, 9 July 1910 – July 1911 Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat, July 1911 – November 1913 Alfred Albert Martineau, November 1913 – 29 June 1918 Pierre Étienne Clayssen (Acting), 29 June 1918 – 21 February 1919 Louis Martial Innocent Gerbinis, 21 February 1919 – 11 February 1926 Henri Léo Eugène Lagroua (Acting), 11 February 1926 – 5 August 1926 Pierre Jean Henri Didelot, 1926–1928 Robert Paul Marie de Guise, 1928–1931 François Adrien Juvanon, 1931–1934 Léon Solomiac, August 1934 – 1936 Horace Valentin Crocicchia, 1936–1938 Louis Alexis Étienne Bonvin, 26 September 1938 – 1945 Nicolas Ernest Marie Maurice Jeandin, 1945–1946 Charles François Marie Baron, 20 March 1946 – 20 August 1947 French India became an Overseas territory () of France in 1946. Commissioners Charles François Marie Baron, 20 August 1947 – May 1949 Charles Chambon, May 1949 – 31 July 1950 André Ménard, 31 July 1950 – October 1954 Georges Escargueil, October 1954 – 1 November 1954 French India de facto transferred to the Republic of India in 1954. High Commissioners The first High Commissioner, Kewal Singh was appointed immediately after the Kizhoor referendum on 21 October 1954 as per Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1947. The Chief Commissioner had the powers of the former French commissioner, but was under the direct control of the Union Government. The list of Chief Commissioners is given below See also