Ernest Nestor Roume (12 July 1858 – 16 April 1941) was a French colonial administrator and governor of
French West Africa
French West Africa (, ) was a federation of eight French colonial empires#Second French colonial empire, French colonial territories in West Africa: Colonial Mauritania, Mauritania, French Senegal, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guin ...
from 15 March 1902 to 15 December 1907, and governor of
French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a group of French dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954. It was initial ...
from 1915–1916.
References
Further reading
*Paul E. Lovejoy et A.S. Kanya-Forstner (dir.), ''Slavery and its abolition in French West Africa : the official reports of G. Poulet, E. Roume, and G. Deherme'', University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
p. 206
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1858 births
1941 deaths
Governors of French West Africa