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Governments of France


Governments of France

 


 

741 - 1792

Monarchy

 

 

 

King:

     741 - 751:
Pippin III the Short (mayor of the palace)
 
     751 - 768:
Pippin III the Short (king of the Franks)
 
     768 - 771: Carloman (king of the Franks)

     771 - 800:
Charlemagne (Charles I; king of the Franks)

     800 - 814:
Charlemagne
                    (Charles I; Holy Roman emperor)

     814 - 840:
Louis I the Pious (emperor)

     840 - 855:
Lothar I (emperor)

     840 - 876:
Louis II the German (king of the East
                     Franks)

     843 - 875: Charles II the Bald (king of the West
                     Franks)

     875 - 877: Charles II the Bald (Holy Roman emperor)

     855 - 875: Louis II (emperor)

     876 - 887:
Charles III the Fat (king of the East Franks)

     884 - 887:
Charles III the Fat
                    (Holy Roman emperor, king of the West Franks)

     877 - 879:
Louis II the Stammerer
                    (king of the West Franks)

     879 - 882: Louis III (king of the West Franks)

     879 - 884: Carloman (king of the West Franks)

     887 - 899: Arnulf (king of the East Franks)

     888 - 898: Eudes (king of the West Franks)

     898 - 922:
Charles III the Simple (king of the West
                     Franks)

     899 - 911: Louis IV the Child
                    (last king of the East Franks)

     922 - 923: Robert I

     923 - 936: Rudolf

     936 - 954: Louis IV d'Outremer

     954 - 986: Lothar

     986 - 987: Louis V

     987 - 996: Hugh Capet

     996 - 1031: Robert II the Pious

     1031 - 1060: Henry I

     1060 - 1108: Philip I

     1108 - 1137: Louis VI

     1137 - 1180: Louis VII

     1180 - 1223: Philip II

     1223 - 1226: Louis VIII

     1226 - 1270: Louis IX (St. Louis)

     1270 - 1285: Philip III

     1285 - 1314: Philip IV

     1314 - 1316: Louis X

     1316: John I

     1316 - 1322: Philip V

     1322 - 1328: Charles IV

     1328 - 1350: Philip VI

     1350 - 1364:
John II the Good

     1364 - 1380:
Charles V the Wise

     1380 - 1422: Charles VI

     1422 - 1461: Charles VII

     1461 - 1483: Louis XI

     1461 - 1483:
Louis XI

     1483 - 1498:
Charles VIII

     1498 - 1515: Louis XII

     1515 - 1547:
Francis I

     1547 - 1559: Henry II

     1559 - 1560:
Francis II

     1560 - 1574: Charles IX

     1574 - 1589: Henry III

     1589 - 1610:
Henry IV

     1610 - 1643:
Louis XIII

     1643 - 1715:
Louis XIV

     1715 - 1774:
Louis XV

     1774 - 1792:
Louis XVI

 

 

 

 

 

1789 - 1799 in More Detail
(Political regimes, legislative bodies)

June 17, 1789 - July 9, 1789:
National Assembly

July 9, 1789 - September 30, 1791:
National Constituent Assembly

October 1, 1791 - September 21, 1792:
Legislative Assembly

September 21, 1792:
Formal abolition of the monarchy

September 21, 1792 - October 26, 1795:
National Convention

October 27, 1795 - December 26, 1799:
Council of Five Hundred (Directory)

 

 

 

 

1792 - 1804

First Republic

 

 
     
1792 - 1795:
National Convention

     
1795 - 1799:
Directory
       
(Conseil de Cinq-Cents and Conseil des Anciens)

     
1799 - 1804:
Consulate / Napoléon Bonaparte

 

 

 

 

 

 

1804 - 1814

First Empire

 

Emperor:
     1804 - April 6, 1814:
Napoleon I Bonaparte

 

 

 

 

 

Europe 1810: Napoleon at the Height of His Power
Europe 1810: Napoleon at the Height of His Power

 

 

 

 

 

 

1814

Provisional Government

 

Committee of five men:
    
April 6, 1814 - May 3, 1814: Headed by
Talleyrand

 

 

 

 

1814 - 1848

Monarchy

 

King:
    
May 3, 1814 - March 13, 1815:
Louis XVIII

Interruption by Napoleon's Return:
     March 20 - July 8, 1815: Napoleon's Hundred Days
    
Napoleon abdicated on June 22, 1815.
      June 22, 1815 - July 8, 1815: Provisional Government


King:
    
July 8, 1815 - 1824:
Louis XVIII

     1824 - August 2, 1830: Charles X

     August 9, 1830 - 1848:
Louis-Philippe

 

 

 

 

 

 

1848 - 1852

Second Republic

 

President:
     
1848 - 1852:
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

 

 

 

 

 

 

1852 - 1870

Second Empire

 

Emperor:
     1852 - 1870: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
                        as
Napoleon III

 

 

 

 

 

 

1871 - 1940

Third Republic

 

President:
     
1871 - 1873: Adolphe Thiers

     
1873 - 1879: Patrice de Mac-Mahon

     
1879 - 1887: Jules Grévy

     
1887 - 1894: Sadi Carnot

     
1894 - 1895: Jean Casimir-Périer

     
1895 - 1899: Félix Faure

     
1899 - 1906: Émile Loubet

     
1906 - 1913: Armand Fallières

     
1913 - 1920: Raymond Poincaré

     
1920: Paul Deschanel

     
1920 - 1924: Alexandre Millerand

     
1924 - 1931: Gaston Doumergue

     
1931 - 1932: Paul Doumer

     
1932 - 1940: Albert Lebrun

 

 

 

 

1940 - 1944

Vichy France

 

Head of State:
     
1940 - 1944: Philippe Pétain

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 - 1947

Provisional Government

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 - 1959

Fourth Republic

 

President:
     
1947 - 1954: Vincent Auriol

     
1954 - 1959: René Coty

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959 - Still in effect

Fifth Republic

 

President:
     
1959 - 1969:
Charles de Gaulle

     
1969 - 1974: Georges Pompidou

     
1974 - 1981: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

     
1981 - 1995: François Mitterrand

     
1995 - 2007: Jacques Chirac

     
2007 - 2012: Nicolas Sarkozy

      2012 -            François Hollande

 

 

        
 

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1991 France

 

 

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