Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps was

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for

Inde française French India, formally the (), 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 facto'' incorporated into the ...

in the Second

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during the last days of the Second Empire of

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and in the initial era of the Third Republic. Before taking this post, he was governor of

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Titles Held

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