French Presidents and Prime Ministers
This list is comprised of French Presidents and Prime Ministers. The French Republic was first formed in 1792 after the French Revolution, though the office of President did not exist until the creation of the Second Republic in 1848. The Third (1870-1940), Fourth (1947-1959) and Fifth (1959-present) Republics have also been led by presidents.
The modern office of Prime Minister was created in 1815 (in French the title was Président du Conseil des Ministres until 1959, when it became Premier ministre). Unlike some other European democracies with both a president and a prime minister, the French Prime Minister has less actual power compared to the President.
| Name | Years | Type | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles de Gaulle | 1958-1959; 1959-1969 | prime minister; president | (André, Joseph, Marie) |  |
| François Hollande | 2012-2017 | president | (Gérard, Georges, Nicolas) | |
| Georges Pompidou | 1962-1968; 1969-1974 | prime minister; president | (Jean, Raymond) | |
| Emmanuel Macron | 2017- | president | (Jean, Michel, Frédéric) | |
| Jacques Chirac | 1974-1976; 1986-1988; 1995-2007 | prime minister; president | (René) | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 2007-2012 | president | (Paul, Stéphane) | |
| Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | 1848-1852 | president | (Charles) | |
| François Mitterrand | 1981-1995 | president | (Maurice, Adrien, Marie) | |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1974-1981 | president | (Marie, René, Georges) | |
| Philippe Pétain | 1940 | prime minister | (Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph) | |
| Adolphe Thiers | 1836; 1840; 1871-1873 | prime minister; president | (Marie, Joseph, Louis) | |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | 1815 | prime minister | | |
| Patrice de Mac-Mahon | 1873-1879 | president | (Marie, Edme, Maurice) | |
| Georges Clemenceau | 1906-1909; 1917-1920 | prime minister | (Benjamin) | |
| François Arago | 1848 | prime minister | (Dominique, Jean) | |
| Aristide Briand | 1909-1911; 1913; 1915-1917; 1921-1922; 1925-1926; 1929 | prime minister | | |
| Raymond Poincaré | 1912-1913; 1913-1920; 1922-1924; 1926-1929 | president; prime minister | | |
| Robert Schuman | 1947-1948; 1948 | prime minister | (Jean, Baptiste, Nicolas) | |
| François Fillon | 2007-2012 | prime minister | (Charles, Armand) | |
| Albert François Lebrun | 1932-1940 | president | | |
| Alexandre Millerand | 1920; 1920-1924 | prime minister; president | | |
| Léon Blum | 1936-1937; 1938; 1946-1947 | prime minister | (André) | |
| Édouard Daladier | 1933; 1934; 1938-1940 | prime minister | | |
| Gaston Doumergue | 1913-1914; 1924-1931; 1934 | president; prime minister | (Pierre, Paul, Henri) | |
| Jules Grévy | 1879-1887 | president | (François, Paul) | |
| Léon Bourgeois | 1895-1896 | prime minister | (Victor, Auguste) | |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot | 1887-1894 | president | | |
| Paul Doumer | 1931-1932 | president | (Joseph, Athanase) | |
| Vincent Auriol | 1947-1954 | president | (Jules) | |
| Pierre Mauroy | 1981-1984 | prime minister | | |
| Armand Fallières | 1883; 1906-1913 | prime minister; president | (Clément) | |
| Félix Faure | 1895-1899 | president | (François) | |
| Manuel Valls | 2014-2016 | prime minister | (Carlos) | |
| René Coty | 1954-1959 | president | (Jules, Gustave) | |
| Émile Loubet | 1892; 1899-1906 | prime minister; president | (François) | |
| Lionel Jospin | 1997-2002 | prime minister | | |
| Édith Cresson | 1991-1992 | prime minister | | |
| François Guizot | 1847-1848 | prime minister | (Pierre, Guillaume) | |
| Dominique de Villepin | 2005-2007 | prime minister | (Marie, François, René) | |
| Jean Castex | 2020-2022 | prime minister | | |
| Paul Deschanel | 1920 | president | (Eugène, Louis) | |
| Pierre Laval | 1931-1932; 1935-1936; 1940; 1942-1944 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Philippe | 2017-2020 | prime minister | (Charles) | |
| Jean Casimir-Perier | 1893-1894; 1894-1895 | prime minister; president | (Paul, Pierre) | |
| Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 1832-1834; 1839-1840; 1840-1847 | prime minister | (Nicolas) | |
| Jean-Marc Ayrault | 2012-2014 | prime minister | | |
| Élisabeth Borne | 2022-2024 | prime minister | | |
| Léon Gambetta | 1881-1882 | prime minister | | |
| Bernard Cazeneuve | 2016-2017 | prime minister | (Guy, Georges) | |
| Michel Barnier | 2024 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| Alain Poher | 1969; 1974 | president | (Émile, Louis, Marie) | |
| Paul Reynaud | 1940 | prime minister | | |
| Laurent Fabius | 1984-1986 | prime minister | | |
| Michel Rocard | 1988-1991 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Herriot | 1924-1925; 1926; 1932 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| Louis Barthou | 1913 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| Édouard Balladur | 1993-1995 | prime minister | | |
| Raymond Barre | 1976-1981 | prime minister | (Octave, Joseph) | |
| Alain Juppé | 1995-1997 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| Jules Ferry | 1880-1881; 1883-1885 | prime minister | (François, Camille) | |
| Paul Painlevé | 1917; 1925 | prime minister | | |
| Georges Bidault | 1949-1950 | prime minister | (Augustin) | |
| Louis-Eugène Cavaignac | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1969-1972 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise | 1834-1835 | prime minister | (Adolphe, Casimir, Joseph) | |
| Michel Debré | 1959-1962 | prime minister | (Jean, Pierre) | |
| Pierre Mendès France | 1954-1955 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Messmer | 1972-1974 | prime minister | (Joseph, Auguste) | |
| Gabriel Attal | 2024 | prime minister | (Nissim) | |
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin | 2002-2005 | prime minister | | |
| Jules Armand Dufaure | 1871-1873; 1876; 1877-1879 | prime minister | (Stanislas) | |
| Pierre Bérégovoy | 1992-1993 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis | 1815-1818; 1820-1821 | prime minister | (Sophie, Septimanie) | |
| Louis-Jules Trochu | 1870-1871 | prime minister | | |
| Guy Mollet | 1956-1957 | prime minister | | |
| Maurice Couve de Murville | 1968-1969 | prime minister | | |
| André Tardieu | 1929-1930; 1930; 1932 | prime minister | (Pierre, Gabriel, Amédée) | |
| Edgar Faure | 1952; 1955-1956 | prime minister | | |
| Jules de Polignac | 1829-1830 | prime minister | | |
| Charles de Freycinet | 1879-1880; 1882; 1886; 1890-1892 | prime minister | (Louis) | |
| Charles Dupuy | 1893; 1894-1895; 1898-1899 | prime minister | (Alexandre) | |
| François Bayrou | 2024- | prime minister | (René, Jean, Lucien) | |
| Camille Chautemps | 1930; 1933-1934; 1937-1938 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau | 1899-1902 | prime minister | (Marie, René, Ernest) | |
| René Pleven | 1950-1951; 1951-1952 | prime minister | | |
| Antoine Pinay | 1952-1953 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Albert de Broglie | 1873-1874; 1877 | prime minister | (Jacques, Victor) | |
| Alexandre Ribot | 1892-1893; 1895; 1914; 1917 | prime minister | (Félix, Joseph) | |
| Émile Combes | 1902-1905 | prime minister | (Justin, Louis) | |
| Henri Queuille | 1948-1949; 1950; 1951 | prime minister | | |
| Paul Ramadier | 1947 | prime minister | | |
| René Mayer | 1953 | prime minister | | |
| René Viviani | 1914-1915 | prime minister | (Jean, Raphaël, Adrien) | |
| Élie, duc Decazes | 1819-1820 | prime minister | | |
| Victor de Broglie | 1830; 1835-1836 | prime minister | (Achille, Léonce, Charles) | |
| Joseph Caillaux | 1911-1912 | prime minister | (Marie, Auguste) | |
| Joseph Paul-Boncour | 1932-1933 | prime minister | (Augustin, Alfred) | |
| William Waddington | 1879 | prime minister | (Henry) | |
| André Marie | 1948 | prime minister | | |
| Joseph Laniel | 1953-1954 | prime minister | | |
| Jules Méline | 1896-1898 | prime minister | (Félix) | |
| Pierre-Étienne Flandin | 1934-1935; 1940-1941 | prime minister | | |
| Félix Gaillard | 1957-1958 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Pflimlin | 1958 | prime minister | (Eugène, Jean) | |
| Étienne Maurice Gérard | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Albert Sarraut | 1933; 1936 | prime minister | (Pierre) | |
| Jacques Laffitte | 1830-1831 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Floquet | 1888-1889 | prime minister | (Thomas) | |
| Fernand Bouisson | 1935 | prime minister | | |
| Frédéric François-Marsal | 1924 | prime minister | | |
| Henri Brisson | 1885-1886; 1898 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| Jules Simon | 1876-1877 | prime minister | (François) | |
| Maurice Rouvier | 1887; 1905-1906 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Tirard | 1887-1888; 1889-1890 | prime minister | (Emmanuel) | |
| Théodore Steeg | 1930-1931 | prime minister | | |
| Casimir Pierre Périer | 1831-1832 | prime minister | | |
| Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury | 1957 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Émile Ollivier | 1869-1870 | prime minister | (Olivier) | |
| Ernest Monis | 1911 | prime minister | (Antoine, Emmanuel) | |
| Georges Leygues | 1920-1921 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao | 1870 | prime minister | (Guillaume, Marie, Appollinaire, Antoine) | |
| Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac | 1828-1829 | prime minister | (Sylvère) | |
| Louis-Mathieu Molé | 1836-1839; 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles | 1818-1819 | prime minister | (Paul, Augustin) | |
| Jean-Baptiste de Villèle | 1821-1828 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Duclerc | 1882-1883 | prime minister | (Théodore, Eugène) | |
| Ernest Courtot de Cissey | 1874-1875 | prime minister | (Louis, Octave) | |
| Louis Buffet | 1875-1876 | prime minister | (Joseph) | |
| René Goblet | 1886-1887 | prime minister | | |
| Odilon Barrot | 1848-1849 | prime minister | (Camille, Hyacinthe) | |
| Ferdinand Sarrien | 1906 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Gaëtan de Rochebouët | 1877 | prime minister | | |
| Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul | 1849-1851 | prime minister | | |
| Léon Faucher | 1851 | prime minister | (Léonard, Joseph) | |