Charles de Brunier, Marquis de Larnage
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Charles de Brunier (1687-November 1746) was the governor of Marie-Galante in 1714[1][2] then served as governor of French Grenada[3] from 1727 to 1734 and then the governor-general of Haiti[4][3][5][6][7] from 1737 until his death in 1746.[8] He is mentioned on the West wall of the museum of the permanent museum of colonies and is even described as the “father of the colony”.[7][9]
He wrote a book with Simon-Pierre Maillart (or Maillard)[10] a few months before his death called “Ordonnance des Administrateurs, concernant les Négres-Epaves. Du 2 Juillet 1745”[11]