Gabriel Alapetite | |
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| Prefect of Indre | |
| In office March 1888 – December 1888 | |
| Prefect of Sarthe | |
| In office 1 December 1888 – 23 May 1889 | |
| Prefect of Puy-de-Dôme | |
| In office May 1889 – January 1890 | |
| Prefect of Pas-de-Calais | |
| In office January 1890 – September 1900 | |
| Prefect of Rhône | |
| In office 1900–1906 | |
| French Resident-General in Tunisia | |
| In office 29 December 1906 – 26 October 1918 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Pichon |
| Succeeded by | Étienne Flandin |
| French Ambassador to Spain | |
| In office 1918–1920 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Thierry |
| Succeeded by | Charles de Beaupoil |
| Commissioner General in Strasbourg | |
| In office 1920–1924 | |
| Preceded by | Alexandre Millerand |
| Succeeded by | none |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 January 1854 Clamecy, Nièvre, France |
| Died | 22 March 1932 (aged 78) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Civil servant, diplomat |
Gabriel Ferdinand Alapetite (5 January 1854 – 22 March 1932) was a French senior civil servant and diplomat. From 1879 to 1906 he was sub-prefect or prefect of various departments of France. For eleven years from 1906 to 1918 he was Resident-General of France in Tunisia, where he initiated various administrative improvements. He considered that the Tunisian Muslims had an utterly different mentality from French people, and could never become citizens of France. He was violently antisemitic, and opposed recruiting Tunisian Jews during World War I (1914–18). After the war he was briefly French Ambassador in Madrid, then for four years administered Alsace-Lorraine, which had been returned from Germany to France.