Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic

Position heldGovernor General of Mascarene (1792–1800), colonial governor of Guadeloupe (1768–1769) Ranklieutenant general Branchinfantry Titlescount 

Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic (3 July 1730, Montauban - 28 July 1800, Port-Louis, Mauritius) was a French colonial governor and general, notable for his service in Canada and Mauritius.

During the French Revolutionary period, Malartic refused to give sailor captain Robert Surcouf a letter of marque, but ordered Surcouf's ship, the Émilie to go to the Seychelles to purchase tortoises as food for Isle de France.

In June 1796, he met the agents of the Directory who had come to apply the Law of 4 February 1794. But in the face of pressure from the colonists, he forcibly return them to France.^[1]

Fate

Governor Malartic died at the age of 70. He suffered a stroke on 26 July 1800 while going to church, and died two days later.

The Canadian town of Malartic is named after him.

References

Further reading

• Tugdual de Langlais, L'armateur préféré de Beaumarchais Jean Peltier Dudoyer, de Nantes à l'Isle de France, Éd. Coiffard, 2015, 340 p. (ISBN 9782919339280).
• Tugdual de Langlais, Marie-Etienne Peltier, Capitaine corsaire de la République, Éd. Coiffard, 2017, 240 p. (ISBN 9782919339471)

External links

• Quebec History
• Taillemite, Étienne (1979). "Maurès de Malartic, Anne-Joseph-Hippolyte de, , Comte de Malartic". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
• Mauritius
• Site de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Ile Maurice : https://www.soc-histoire-maurice.org