Maurice Antoine François Monguillot was a French colonial administrator in French Indochina and soldier. He served as the acting governor-general of French Indochina three times; from May 1919 to February 1920, April 1925 to November 1925 and November 1927 to August 1928. Monguillot was named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur on January 18, 1911, an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur on March 23, 1916, Commandeur of the Légion d’Honneur on January 18, 1921. His published notice for Commandeur of the Légion d’Honneur in 1925 notes that he had served as a Resident Superior in Indo-China, Resident Superior in Tonkin and was later administrator of the Distilleries of Indochine, president of the Colonial Trust, then president of the nationalized tin mines in Upper Tonkin. He won admission to the École Polytechnique of the Ministère de la Guerre in 1894 for four years, then served as an artillery soldier in the Troupes de marine from 1896 and into World War One. He served in Tonkin in 1902 during wartime, in peacetime Tunisia in 1906, to the French Antilles in 1908, in Cochinchina in 1909, wartime Tonkin in 1912, wartime Madagascar 1911-1912, French Equatorial Africa 1913-1914 and in the First World War in FranceAugust 2, 1914 to March 31, 1916. His school admission records to the École Polytechnique note that he was 1.67m tall with dark blonde hair and grey-blue eyes. During his time as administrator in Asia, he published a decree on October 30, 1925, protecting the Angkor site.. During Andre Malraux's time in Indochina, Monguillot watched him closely due to his association with Bolsheviks; when Malraux was in Hanoi, Monguillot refused to see him. Monguillot asked to exercise his pension rights due to his long tenure with the government starting March 1st, 1929. He was aged 55 at the time. Monguillot had a bird named after him, the Vietnamese greenfinch, so named by the American ornithologist Jean Théodore Delacour in 1926 under the binomial name Hypacanthis monguilloti
