List of administrators of the French protectorate of Laos

This article lists the administrators of the French protectorate of Laos, and also encompass the Japanese occupation of Laos.

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure Portrait Incumbent Notes
French suzerainty
1887 to 5 June 1894 Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Vice-Consul
5 June 1894 to April 1895 Auguste Jean Marie Pavie, Commissioner-General
1 June 1895 to 30 April 1899 Marie Auguste Armand Tournier, Commandant-Superior of Bas-Laos In Khong, Champasak
1 June 1895 to 9 March 1897 Joseph Vacle, Interim Commandant-Superior of Haut-Laos 1st time, in Luang Prabang
1 May 1897 to 11 October 1898 Louis Paul Luce, Interim Commandant-Superior of Haut-Laos In Luang Prabang
11 October 1898 to April 1899 Joseph Vacle, Interim Commandant-Superior of Haut-Laos 2nd time, in Luang Prabang
September 1895 to March 1896 Léon Jules Pol Boulloche, Resident-Superior
30 April 1899 to February 1903 Marie Auguste Armand Tournier, Resident-Superior
12 February 1903 to May 1906 Georges Marie Joseph Mahé, Interim Resident-Superior 1st time
11 May 1906 to 1 April 1907 Louis Saturnin Laffont, Interim Resident-Superior
1 April 1907 to January 1912 Georges Marie Joseph Mahé, Resident-Superior 2nd time
24 August 1910 to 27 July 1911 Antoine Georges Amédeé Ernest Outrey, Acting Resident-Superior Acting for Mahé
9 January 1912 to July 1913 Louis Antoine Aubry de la Noë, Interim Resident-Superior
4 July 1913 to October 1913 Claude Léon Garnier, Acting Resident-Superior 1st time
9 October 1913 to February 1914 Jean Édouard Bourcier Saint-Chaffray, Interim Resident-Superior
31 May 1914 to May 1918 Claude Léon Garnier, Acting Resident-Superior 2nd time
3 May 1918 to March 1931 Jules Georges Théodore Bosc, Resident-Superior
26 April 1921 to January 1923 Joël Daroussin, Interim Resident-Superior Acting for Bosc
7 May 1925 to January 1926 Jean-Jacques Dauplay, Interim Resident-Superior Acting for Bosc
21 May 1928 to 12 December 1928 Paul Raimond Octane Le Boulanger, Interim Resident-Superior Acting for Bosc
21 March 1931 to 12 May 1931 Paul Raimond Octane Le Boulanger, Interim Resident-Superior 1st time
25 March 1931 Pierre André Michel Pagès, Resident-Superior Did not take office
21 May 1931 to 4 June 1931 Yves Charles Châtel, Resident-Superior
11 June 1931 to 21 November 1931 Paul Raimond Octane Le Boulanger, Interim Resident-Superior 2nd time
21 November 1931 to 11 February 1932 Jules Nicolas Thiebaut, Interim Resident-Superior
11 February 1932 to 16 December 1933 Aristide Eugène Le Fol, Resident-Superior
16 December 1933 to 1 January 1934 Adrien Anthony Maurice Roques, Acting Resident-Superior 1st time
1 January 1934 to July 1934 Louis Frédéric Eckert, Interim Resident-Superior
10 July 1934 to 4 August 1934 Adrien Anthony Maurice Roques, Acting Resident-Superior 2nd time
4 August 1934 to April 1938 Eugène Henri Roger Eutrope, Resident-Superior
25 November 1934 to 13 October 1935 Frédéric Claire Guillaume Louis Marty, Interim Resident-Superior
5 April 1938 to 16 November 1940 André Touzet, Resident-Superior
16 November 1940 to 29 December 1941 Adrien Anthony Maurice Roques, Interim Resident-Superior 3rd time
29 December 1941 to August 1945 Louis Antoine Marie Brasey, Resident-Superior Japanese prisoner 10 March 1945 – 9 June 1945
Japanese suzerainty
10 March 1945 to August 1945 Sako Masanori, Commander In Vientiane
5 April 1945 to 22 August 1945 Ishibashi, Supreme Counselor In Luang Prabang
French suzerainty
29 August 1945 to 6 April 1946 Hans Imfeld, Commissioner Acting to 23 September 1945
6 April 1946 to July 1947 Jean Léon François Marie de Raymond, Commissioner
29 July 1947 to 20 March 1948 Maurice Marie Auguste Michaudel, Interim Commissioner
20 March 1948 to August 1949 Alfred Gabriel Joseph Valmary, Interim Commissioner
8 August 1949 to April 1953 Robert Louis Aimable Régnier, Commissioner
27 April 1953 to January 1954 Miguel Joaquim de Pereyra, High Commissioner
6 January 1954 to 1955 Michel Georges Eugène Breal, High Commissioner

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