# Jean-Baptiste Le Roux de Kermeseven - Commandant of the Seychelles

URL: https://allhistories.com/seychelles/rulers/jean-baptiste-le-roux-de-kermeseven
Tenure: 1775 – 1777
Number in the list: 3
Dynasty: French commandants of the Seychelles
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_and_administrators_of_Seychelles

Jean-Baptiste Le Roux de Kermeseven is listed as commandant of the small French post in the Seychelles from 1775 to 1777. Little is recorded of his tenure; the colony then had only a handful of settlers and depended entirely on Île de France.

## Succession
- Previous in list: [Joseph François Eugène Benjamin Anselme](https://allhistories.com/seychelles/rulers/joseph-francois-eugene-benjamin-anselme)
- Next in list: [Charles Routier de Romainville](https://allhistories.com/seychelles/rulers/charles-routier-de-romainville)

## Timeline events during this reign
- 1775 - [Slaughter of the Giant Tortoises](https://allhistories.com/seychelles/timeline/1775-slaughter-of-the-giant-tortoises)