Yvon Bourges

Yvon Bourges (29 June 1921 – 18 April 2009) was a French politician and colonial administrator. He was the final Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, serving from 1958 to 1960.

Biography Born in Pau, Bourges graduated from the law faculty at the University of Rennes.

He became a Gaullist in 1940 in the French Resistance and joined the prefectural administration in 1942, as an assistant to the prefecture of Rennes. He became Chief of Staff of the Somme prefecture two years later, the office of the Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine Philibert Dupard, then prefect Roger Martin to be decided during the liberation of France. Yvon Bourges then participates in the transition of power and was appointed to posts in Amiens and Strasbourg. At just 25, he became, in 1947, sub-prefect of Erstein.

In 1951, at the request of the High Commissioner Bernard Cornut-Gentille, he joined the administration in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) to prepare colonies for independence. Governor of Upper Volta in 1956, then High Commissioner of the AEF from July 1958 to 1960. He died in Paris on 18 April 2009.