Charles Poncet de Brétigny

Charles Poncet de Brétigny
Governor of Cayenne
In office
4 March 1644 – June 1645
Succeeded byHuet de Navarre
Personal details
Died1645 (1646)
Cayenne, French Guiana
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Charles Poncet de Brétigny (c. 1610 – 1644) was founder and governor of the French colony of Cayenne, in what is now French Guiana, from 1644 to 1645. A brutal and despotic man, after just over a year he was murdered by a Carib, as were most of the other colonists. Accounts of the events and aftermath are somewhat confused, gathered from the few survivors several years later.

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