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.

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