Louis Adolphe Bonard was a French admiral who served in the Mediterranean and then for many years in the Pacific.
He was governor of French Guiana from 1853 to 1855, and governor of Cochinchina from 1861 to 1863.
Louis Adolphe Bonard
Arrival of Bonard in Hué in April 1863
The Franco-Tahitian War or French–Tahitian War (1844–1847) was a conflict between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Tahiti and its allies in the South Pacific archipelago of the Society Islands in modern-day French Polynesia.
Capture of Fort Fautaua in Tahiti, depicted by Sébastien Charles Giraud
Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, the Persecuted Christian Surrounded by Her Family at the Afflictive Moment when the French Forces Were Landing, painting by LMS artist George Baxter, 1845.