Martial Henri Merlin (20 January 1860 – 8 May 1935; also Martial Merlin)[3] was a French colonial administrator of the 19th and 20th centuries.

[4] He served as the governor-general of Guadeloupe (1901–1903), French West Africa (1907–1908 and 1919—1923), French Equatorial Africa (1908–1917), French Madagascar[5] (1917–1918), and French Indochina[6][7] (1923–1925).

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Base Léonore (in French).