Maurice Paquirissamypoullé, or Paquirissamy-Poullé, (9 August 1906 – 13 January 1956) was a rice trader and politician from the colony of Karaikal in French India.

[3] After World War II (1939–45) Paquirissamypoullé was elected a member of the Representative Assembly of French India on 15 December 1946.

[4] On 20 December 1948 the Assembly voted for a motion that approved the resolution of the Indian National Congress in Jaipur that required annexation of all foreign possessions in India, and called for the opening of negotiations between Paris and New Delhi.

[5] In 1949 he participated in debating the draft law for organizing a referendum in Chandannagar, the first of the French Establishments to become part of the Indian Union (in 1951).

They had told him that a merger of the French Establishments with India was inevitable, and France wanted the transfer to take place under the most favorable terms and conditions possible.

On 20 July 1954 he asked Robert Buron, Minister of Overseas France, to settle the French Indian problem.

[9] The last four French Establishments in India, Karaikal, Mahé, Pondicherry and Yanaon, became part of the Indian Union.