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