Étienne Richaud (Étienne Antoine Guillaume Richaud), born on January 11, 1841, in

Martigues Martigues ( in classical norm, ''Lou Martegue'' in Mistralian norm) is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte. A di ...

(

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( , , ; oc, Bocas de Ròse ; "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the south. Its prefecture and ...

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) and died on May 31, 1889, in the

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, was the

Principal private secretary A private secretary (PS) is a civil servant in a governmental department or ministry, responsible to a secretary of state or minister; or a public servant in a royal household, responsible to a member of the royal family. The role exists in ...

of the Minister of Commerce Maurice Rouvier ( Gambetta's Ministry), Governor of La Réunion,

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for

Inde française French India, formally the ( en, French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian Subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de ...

in the Second

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under Third Republic.

Titles held

1841 births 1889 deaths People from Martigues Governors of French India People of the French Third Republic {{France-mil-bio-stub