François de Mahy

François Césaire de Mahy (22 July 1830, Saint-Pierre, Réunion – 19 November 1906, Paris)[1] was a French politician.

The young François first went to college in Saint-Denis before continuing his studies at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.

The contact with his numerous patients gave him a vocation for politics which led him to plan to leave for the capital.

He soon developed with Alexandre Robinet de La Serve a project of colonial reform which would lead to the legislative assimilation of the island to the metropolis.

When the Third Republic was proclaimed and two seats of deputies were granted to Reunion, he finally presented himself as a Republican candidate, like his friend.