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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | 1848-1852 | president | (Charles) |  |
| Patrice de Mac-Mahon | 1873-1879 | president | (Marie, Edme, Maurice) | |
| Jules Grévy | 1879-1887 | president | (François, Paul) | |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot | 1887-1894 | president | | |
| Félix Faure | 1895-1899 | president | (François) | |
| Paul Deschanel | 1920 | president | (Eugène, Louis) | |
| Paul Doumer | 1931-1932 | president | (Joseph, Athanase) | |
| Albert François Lebrun | 1932-1940 | president | | |
| Vincent Auriol | 1947-1954 | president | (Jules) | |
| René Coty | 1954-1959 | president | (Jules, Gustave) | |
| Alain Poher | 1969; 1974 | president | (Émile, Louis, Marie) | |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1974-1981 | president | (Marie, René, Georges) | |
| François Mitterrand | 1981-1995 | president | (Maurice, Adrien, Marie) | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 2007-2012 | president | (Paul, Stéphane) | |
| François Hollande | 2012-2017 | president | (Gérard, Georges, Nicolas) | |
| Emmanuel Macron | 2017- | president | (Jean, Michel, Frédéric) | |
| Raymond Poincaré | 1912-1913; 1913-1920; 1922-1924; 1926-1929 | president; prime minister | | |
| Gaston Doumergue | 1913-1914; 1924-1931; 1934 | president; prime minister | (Pierre, Paul, Henri) | |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | 1815 | prime minister | | |
| Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis | 1815-1818; 1820-1821 | prime minister | (Sophie, Septimanie) | |
| Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles | 1818-1819 | prime minister | (Paul, Augustin) | |
| Élie, duc Decazes | 1819-1820 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-Baptiste de Villèle | 1821-1828 | prime minister | | |
| Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac | 1828-1829 | prime minister | (Sylvère) | |
| Jules de Polignac | 1829-1830 | prime minister | | |
| Victor de Broglie | 1830; 1835-1836 | prime minister | (Achille, Léonce, Charles) | |
| Jacques Laffitte | 1830-1831 | prime minister | | |
| Casimir Pierre Périer | 1831-1832 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 1832-1834; 1839-1840; 1840-1847 | prime minister | (Nicolas) | |
| Étienne Maurice Gérard | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano | 1834 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise | 1834-1835 | prime minister | (Adolphe, Casimir, Joseph) | |
| Louis-Mathieu Molé | 1836-1839; 1848 | prime minister | | |
| François Guizot | 1847-1848 | prime minister | (Pierre, Guillaume) | |
| Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| François Arago | 1848 | prime minister | (Dominique, Jean) | |
| Louis-Eugène Cavaignac | 1848 | prime minister | | |
| Odilon Barrot | 1848-1849 | prime minister | (Camille, Hyacinthe) | |
| Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul | 1849-1851 | prime minister | | |
| Léon Faucher | 1851 | prime minister | (Léonard, Joseph) | |
| Émile Ollivier | 1869-1870 | prime minister | (Olivier) | |
| Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao | 1870 | prime minister | (Guillaume, Marie, Appollinaire, Antoine) | |
| Louis-Jules Trochu | 1870-1871 | prime minister | | |
| Jules Armand Dufaure | 1871-1873; 1876; 1877-1879 | prime minister | (Stanislas) | |
| Albert de Broglie | 1873-1874; 1877 | prime minister | (Jacques, Victor) | |
| Ernest Courtot de Cissey | 1874-1875 | prime minister | (Louis, Octave) | |
| Louis Buffet | 1875-1876 | prime minister | (Joseph) | |
| Jules Simon | 1876-1877 | prime minister | (François) | |
| Gaëtan de Rochebouët | 1877 | prime minister | | |
| William Waddington | 1879 | prime minister | (Henry) | |
| Charles de Freycinet | 1879-1880; 1882; 1886; 1890-1892 | prime minister | (Louis) | |
| Jules Ferry | 1880-1881; 1883-1885 | prime minister | (François, Camille) | |
| Léon Gambetta | 1881-1882 | prime minister | | |
| Charles Duclerc | 1882-1883 | prime minister | (Théodore, Eugène) | |
| Henri Brisson | 1885-1886; 1898 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| René Goblet | 1886-1887 | prime minister | | |
| Maurice Rouvier | 1887; 1905-1906 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Tirard | 1887-1888; 1889-1890 | prime minister | (Emmanuel) | |
| Charles Floquet | 1888-1889 | prime minister | (Thomas) | |
| Alexandre Ribot | 1892-1893; 1895; 1914; 1917 | prime minister | (Félix, Joseph) | |
| Charles Dupuy | 1893; 1894-1895; 1898-1899 | prime minister | (Alexandre) | |
| Léon Bourgeois | 1895-1896 | prime minister | (Victor, Auguste) | |
| Jules Méline | 1896-1898 | prime minister | (Félix) | |
| Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau | 1899-1902 | prime minister | (Marie, René, Ernest) | |
| Émile Combes | 1902-1905 | prime minister | (Justin, Louis) | |
| Ferdinand Sarrien | 1906 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Georges Clemenceau | 1906-1909; 1917-1920 | prime minister | (Benjamin) | |
| Aristide Briand | 1909-1911; 1913; 1915-1917; 1921-1922; 1925-1926; 1929 | prime minister | | |
| Ernest Monis | 1911 | prime minister | (Antoine, Emmanuel) | |
| Joseph Caillaux | 1911-1912 | prime minister | (Marie, Auguste) | |
| Louis Barthou | 1913 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| René Viviani | 1914-1915 | prime minister | (Jean, Raphaël, Adrien) | |
| Paul Painlevé | 1917; 1925 | prime minister | | |
| Georges Leygues | 1920-1921 | prime minister | | |
| Frédéric François-Marsal | 1924 | prime minister | | |
| Édouard Herriot | 1924-1925; 1926; 1932 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| André Tardieu | 1929-1930; 1930; 1932 | prime minister | (Pierre, Gabriel, Amédée) | |
| Camille Chautemps | 1930; 1933-1934; 1937-1938 | prime minister | | |
| Théodore Steeg | 1930-1931 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Laval | 1931-1932; 1935-1936; 1940; 1942-1944 | prime minister | | |
| Joseph Paul-Boncour | 1932-1933 | prime minister | (Augustin, Alfred) | |
| Édouard Daladier | 1933; 1934; 1938-1940 | prime minister | | |
| Albert Sarraut | 1933; 1936 | prime minister | (Pierre) | |
| Pierre-Étienne Flandin | 1934-1935; 1940-1941 | prime minister | | |
| Fernand Bouisson | 1935 | prime minister | | |
| Léon Blum | 1936-1937; 1938; 1946-1947 | prime minister | (André) | |
| Paul Reynaud | 1940 | prime minister | | |
| Philippe Pétain | 1940 | prime minister | (Henri, Benoni, Omer, Joseph) | |
| Paul Ramadier | 1947 | prime minister | | |
| Robert Schuman | 1947-1948; 1948 | prime minister | (Jean, Baptiste, Nicolas) | |
| André Marie | 1948 | prime minister | | |
| Henri Queuille | 1948-1949; 1950; 1951 | prime minister | | |
| Georges Bidault | 1949-1950 | prime minister | (Augustin) | |
| René Pleven | 1950-1951; 1951-1952 | prime minister | | |
| Edgar Faure | 1952; 1955-1956 | prime minister | | |
| Antoine Pinay | 1952-1953 | prime minister | | |
| René Mayer | 1953 | prime minister | | |
| Joseph Laniel | 1953-1954 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Mendès France | 1954-1955 | prime minister | | |
| Guy Mollet | 1956-1957 | prime minister | | |
| Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury | 1957 | prime minister | (Jean, Marie) | |
| Félix Gaillard | 1957-1958 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Pflimlin | 1958 | prime minister | (Eugène, Jean) | |
| Michel Debré | 1959-1962 | prime minister | (Jean, Pierre) | |
| Maurice Couve de Murville | 1968-1969 | prime minister | | |
| Jacques Chaban-Delmas | 1969-1972 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Messmer | 1972-1974 | prime minister | (Joseph, Auguste) | |
| Raymond Barre | 1976-1981 | prime minister | (Octave, Joseph) | |
| Pierre Mauroy | 1981-1984 | prime minister | | |
| Laurent Fabius | 1984-1986 | prime minister | | |
| Michel Rocard | 1988-1991 | prime minister | | |
| Édith Cresson | 1991-1992 | prime minister | | |
| Pierre Bérégovoy | 1992-1993 | prime minister | (Eugène) | |
| Édouard Balladur | 1993-1995 | prime minister | | |
| Alain Juppé | 1995-1997 | prime minister | (Marie) | |
| Lionel Jospin | 1997-2002 | prime minister | | |
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin | 2002-2005 | prime minister | | |
| Dominique de Villepin | 2005-2007 | prime minister | (Marie, François, René) | |
| François Fillon | 2007-2012 | prime minister | (Charles, Armand) | |
| Jean-Marc Ayrault | 2012-2014 | prime minister | | |
| Manuel Valls | 2014-2016 | prime minister | (Carlos) | |
| Bernard Cazeneuve | 2016-2017 | prime minister | (Guy, Georges) | |
| Édouard Philippe | 2017-2020 | prime minister | (Charles) | |
| Jean Castex | 2020-2022 | prime minister | | |
| Élisabeth Borne | 2022-2024 | prime minister | | |
| Gabriel Attal | 2024 | prime minister | (Nissim) | |
| Michel Barnier | 2024 | prime minister | (Jean) | |
| François Bayrou | 2024- | prime minister | (René, Jean, Lucien) | |
| Adolphe Thiers | 1836; 1840; 1871-1873 | prime minister; president | (Marie, Joseph, Louis) | |
| Armand Fallières | 1883; 1906-1913 | prime minister; president | (Clément) | |
| Émile Loubet | 1892; 1899-1906 | prime minister; president | (François) | |
| Jean Casimir-Perier | 1893-1894; 1894-1895 | prime minister; president | (Paul, Pierre) | |
| Alexandre Millerand | 1920; 1920-1924 | prime minister; president | | |
| Charles de Gaulle | 1958-1959; 1959-1969 | prime minister; president | (André, Joseph, Marie) | |
| Georges Pompidou | 1962-1968; 1969-1974 | prime minister; president | (Jean, Raymond) | |
| Jacques Chirac | 1974-1976; 1986-1988; 1995-2007 | prime minister; president | (René) | |