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List of Presidents of the French Republic

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Second French Republic (1848-1852)

President of the Provisional Government of the Republic

President of the National Constituent Assembly

Chairman of the Executive Power Commission

President of the National Constituent Assembly

Chief of the Executive Power

President

Picture Name Term start Term end Political Party Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte20 December18482 December1852(became Emperor of the French) Order Party

Third French Republic (1870-1940)

President of the Government of National Defense

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly

Presidents

Picture Name Term start Term end Political Party Adolphe Thiers17 February187124 May1873(resigned) MonarchistPatrice de Mac-Mahon24 May187330 January1879(resigned) MilitaryJules Grévy30 January18792 December1887(resigned) Opportunist RepublicanMarie François Sadi Carnot3 December188725 June1894(assassinated) Opportunist RepublicanJean Casimir-Perier27 June189416 January1895(resigned) Left Republican Félix Faure17 January189516 February1899(died in office) Opportunist RepublicanÉmile Loubet18 February189918 February1906Left Republican Armand Fallières18 February190618 February1913Radical PartyRaymond Poincaré18 February191318 February1920Progressive Republican PartyPaul Deschanel18 February192021 September1920(resigned) Progressive Republican PartyAlexandre Millerand23 September192011 June1924(resigned) Republican Socialist Party Gaston Doumergue13 June192413 June1931Radical PartyPaul Doumer13 June19317 May1932(assassinated) Radical PartyAlbert Lebrun10 May193211 July1940(deposed) Democratic Republican Alliance

Acting Presidents

Under the Third Republic, the Prime Minister of France served as Acting President whenever the office of President was vacant.

The office of President of the French Republic did not exist from 1940 until 1947.

French State (1940-1944)

Chief of State

Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944-1947)

Chairmen of the Provisional Government

Fourth French Republic (1947-1958)

Presidents

Picture Name Term start Term end Political Party Vincent Auriol16 January194716 January1954French Section of the Workers' InternationalRené Coty16 January19548 January1959Independent

Fifth French Republic (1958-Present)

Presidents

Picture Name Term start Term end Political Party Charles de Gaulle8 January195928 April1969(resigned) Union for the New RepublicGeorges Pompidou20 June19693 April1974(died in office) Union of Democrats for the RepublicValéry Giscard d'Estaing27 May197421 May1981National Federation of Independent Republicans François Mitterrand21 May198117 May1995Socialist PartyJacques Chirac17 May199516 May2007Rally for the Republic(until 2002), Union for a Popular Movement(from 2002) Nicolas Sarkozy16 May2007Incumbent Union for a Popular Movement

Interim President

See also

v • d • eRepublican Heads of State of FranceFirst RepublicNational Convention · Directory · Napoleon BonaparteSecond RepublicJacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure · Executive Commission · Louis-Eugene Cavaignac · Louis Napoleon BonaparteInterregnum Louis Jules Trochui
Third RepublicAdolphe Thiers · Patrice de Mac-Mahon · Jules Grevy · Marie François Sadi Carnot · Jean Casimir-Perier · Felix Faure · Emile Loubet · Armand Fallieres · Raymond Poincare · Paul Deschanel · Alexandre Millerand · Gaston Doumergue · Paul Doumer · Albert Lebrun
Vichy FrancePhilippe PetainProvisional GovernmentCharles de Gaulle · Felix Gouin · Georges Bidault · Vincent Aurioli  · Leon BlumFourth RepublicVincent Auriol · Rene CotyFifth RepublicCharles de Gaulle · Alain Poheri  · Georges Pompidou · Alain Poheri  · Valery Giscard d'Estaing · Francois Mitterrand · Jacques Chirac · Nicolas Sarkozy(i) interim. Styled "Presidents" except from 1940-44 ("Chief of State") and 1944-47 ("Chairmen"). Categories: Presidents of France | Government of France | Heads of state of France | Lists of presidents

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