Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay

Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay was governor-general for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire.

In 1818, he captained a flotilla leaving Saint Louis, Senegal for the upper Senegal river. He founded the fort of Bakel when the low water level forced them to stop 900 km upriver.^[1]

Titles held

Government offices
Preceded by Joseph Cordier	Gouverneur Général de l'Inde française 11 April 1829– 3 May 1835	Succeeded by Hubert Jean Victor, Marquis de Saint-Simon

References

^ Pasquier, Roger (1987). Le Sénégal au 19e siècle: La crise économique et social (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Université Paris Sorbonne. p. 265. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

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[1] Pasquier, Roger (1987). Le Sénégal au 19e siècle: La crise économique et social (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Université Paris Sorbonne. p. 265. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

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