List of Finance Ministers of France
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This is a list of French finance ministers
Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry (France)
The Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment , or Minister of Finance for short, is one of the most prominent positions in the cabinet of France after the Prime Minister....

, including the equivalent positions of Superintendent of Finances
Superintendent of Finances
The Superintendent of Finances was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1561 to 1661. The position was abolished in 1661 with the downfall of Nicolas Fouquet, and a new position was created, the Controller-General of Finances....

 and Controller-General of Finances
Controller-General of Finances
The Controller-General of Finances was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1661 to 1791. The position replaced the former position of Superintendent of Finances , which was abolished with the downfall of Nicolas Fouquet.- History :The term "contrôleur général" in...

 during the ancien régime.

Superintendents of Finances, 1518–1661

Superintendent Term start Term end
Jacques de Beaune, lord de Semblançay 1518 1524
Philibert Babou
Philibert Babou
Philibert Babou was a cryptographer and minister of finance for Francis I. He was appointed trésorier in 1523, with powers to collect and distribute much of the king's revenue....

1524 1544
Jean du Thiers
Jean du Thiers
Jean de Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France, and a Secretary of State.He was a great humanist and protector of the poet Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard....

, lord de Beauregard
1544 1546
Claude d'Annebault
Claude d'Annebault
Claude d'Annebault was a French military officer; Marshall of France ; Admiral of France ; and Governor of Piedmont in 1541. He led the French invasion of the Isle of Wight in 1545...

1546 1552
André Guillart 1552 1556
Jean d'Avançon 1556 1559
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
Charles de Lorraine , Duke of Chevreuse, was a French Cardinal, a member of the powerful House of Guise. He was known at first as the Cardinal of Guise, and then as the second Cardinal of Lorraine, after the death of his uncle, John, Cardinal of Lorraine . He was the protector of Rabelais and...

1559 1560
Artus de Cossé-Brissac and Louis d'Ongnyes, comte de Chaulnes 1561 1567
René de Birague
René de Birague
René de Birague was an Italian patrician who became a French cardinal and chancellor.-Biography:...

1568 1570
Pomponne de Bellièvre
Pomponne de Bellièvre
Pomponne de Bellièvre was a French statesman, chancellor of France .-Life:Bellièvre was born in Lyon in 1529....

1574 1588
François d'O 1588 1594
Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully 1598 1611
Pierre Jeannin
Pierre Jeannin
Pierre Jeannin was a French statesman.He was born at Autun. A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bourges, he was an advocate at Dijon by 1569 and became councillor and then president of the parlement of Burgundy. He unsuccessfully opposed the massacre of St Bartholomew in his province...

1614 1619
Henri de Schomberg
Henri de Schomberg
Henri de Schomberg , comte de Nanteuil, was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIII.Schomberg was born at Paris. Superintendent of Finances from 1619 to 1622. He became Marshal of France in 1625....

, comte de Nanteuil
1619 1622
Charles, marquis de La Vieuville 1623 1624
Jean Bochart de Champigny
Jean Bochart de Champigny
Jean Bochart de Champigny, Sieur de Noroy et de Verneuil, chevalier , was Superintendent of Finances from 1624 to 1626 and intendant of New France from 1686 to 1702. He was the son of Jean Bochart de Champigny, intendant of Rouen, and Marie Boivin.- External links :* *...

 and Michel de Marillac
Michel de Marillac
Michel de Marillac was a French jurist and counsellor at the court of Louis XIII of France, one of the leading dévots. His uncle was Charles de Marillac, Archbishop of Vienne and a member of the king's council, the Conseil du Roi...

1624 1626
Antoine Coëffier de Ruzé, marquis d'Effiat 1626 1632
Claude de Bullion and Claude Bouthillier
Claude Bouthillier
Claude Bouthillier, Sieur de Fouilletourte , French statesman, began his professional life as an advocate. In 1613 he was councillor in the Parlement of Paris, and in 1619 became councillor of state and a secretary to the queen-mother, Marie de Medici.The connection of his father, Denis Bouthillier...

1632 1640
Claude Bouthillier
Claude Bouthillier
Claude Bouthillier, Sieur de Fouilletourte , French statesman, began his professional life as an advocate. In 1613 he was councillor in the Parlement of Paris, and in 1619 became councillor of state and a secretary to the queen-mother, Marie de Medici.The connection of his father, Denis Bouthillier...

1640 1643
Nicolas de Bailleul and Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux
Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux
thumb|right|200px|Claude de Mesme, comte d'Avaux.Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France's leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.His first major post was...

1643 1647
Michel Particelli d'Emery
Michel Particelli d'Emery
Michel Particelli d'Émery, , was the son of a banker in Lyon, France, originally from an Italian family of Lucca, Italy, who was the counsellor of Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu...

1647 1648
Armand-Charles de La Porte, maréchal-duc de La Meilleraye 1648 1649
Michel Particelli d'Emery
Michel Particelli d'Emery
Michel Particelli d'Émery, , was the son of a banker in Lyon, France, originally from an Italian family of Lucca, Italy, who was the counsellor of Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu...

 and Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux
Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux
thumb|right|200px|Claude de Mesme, comte d'Avaux.Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator, one of France's leading diplomats in the first half of the century. He was Superintendent of Finances of France from 1649 to 1650.His first major post was...

1649 1650
René de Longueil
René de Longueil
thumb|René de Longueil, marquis de Maisons , le président de Maisons, was Surintendant des Finances under Louis XIII. He built the Château de Maisons....

, marquis de Maisons
1650 1651
Charles, duc de La Vieuville 1651 1653
Abel Servien
Abel Servien
Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin, comte de Roche-Servien and comte de La Roche des Aubiers was a French diplomat who served Cardinal Mazarin and signed for the French at the Treaty of Westphalia...

 and Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV...

3 February 1653 16 February 1661
Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV...

16 February 1661 4 May 1661

Controllers-General of Finances, 1661–1791

Controller-General Term start Term end
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing...

4 May 1661 6 September 1683
Claude Le Pelletier 1683 1689
Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Ponchartrain
Louis Phélypeaux (1643-1727)
Louis Phélypeaux , marquis de Phélypeaux , comte de Maurepas , comte de Pontchartrain , known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician....

20 September 1689 1699
Michel Chamillart
Michel Chamillart
Michel Chamillart or Chamillard was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.He was born in Paris of a family recently raised to the nobility...

5 September 1699 20 February 1708
Nicolas Desmarets
Nicolas Desmarets
Nicolas Desmarets, Marquis De Maillebois was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XIV of France....

20 February 1708 15 September 1715
Adrien Maurice, duc de Noailles
(President of the Finances Council)
1 October 1715 28 January 1718
Henri Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
(vice-President of the Finances Council)
28 January 1718 5 January 1720
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652-1721)
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652-1721)
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy, 1st marquis d'Argenson was a French politician.-Biography:Argenson was born in Venice where his father, also Marc-René, was ambassador...


(President of the Finances Council)
28 January 1718 5 January 1720
John Law
John Law (economist)
John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade...

5 January 1720 28 May 1720
Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts
(Commissioner of Finance)
28 May 1720 11 December 1720
Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye
Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye
Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye was Controller-General of Finances.While serving as 1701 the Intendant of Alsace, in 1701, Le Pelletier issued a ruling permitting Jewish worship in clandestine synagogues in response to a complaint brought by an abbe. It reads, "The worship which the Jews...

11 December 1720 21 April 1722
Charles Gaspard Dodun 21 April 1722 14 June 1726
Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts 14 June 1726 19 March 1730
Philibert Orry
Philibert Orry
Philibert Orry, count of Vignory and lord of La Chapelle-Godefroy, was a French statesman born in Troyes on the 22 January 1689 and who died at La Chapelle-Godefroy on 9 November 1747.-Life:...

19 March 1730 5 December 1745
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville 6 December 1745 30 July 1754
Jean Moreau de Séchelles
Jean Moreau de Séchelles
Jean Moreau de Séchelles was a French official and politician.Made a maître des requêtes 13 October 1719, he was the intendant of Hainaut in Valenciennes from 1727 to 1743...

30 July 1754 24 April 1756
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras was a senior French politician.In a family from the Cévennes, he was the son of Abraham Peyrenc de Moras , son of barber enriched in the system of Law, who built the Hotel Biron rue de Varenne in Paris and his wife, Anne-Marie-Josephe de Farges . He married...

24 April 1756 25 August 1757
Jean de Boullonges
Jean de Boullonges
John Boullongne, Count de Nogent was a French magistrate and politician.Adviser to the parliament of Metz, then superintendent of finance, State Councilor, member of the Royal Council of Finance, he became controller general of finance on 25 August 1757, replacing Francois Marie Peyrenc de Moras....

25 August 1757 4 March 1759
Étienne de Silhouette
Étienne de Silhouette
Étienne de Silhouette was a French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.He was born in Limoges where his father Arnaud de Silhouette was sent....

4 March 1759 21 November 1759
Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin
Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin
Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin was a French statesman, and controller general of finances of Louis XV .-Biography :...

23 November 1759 14 December 1763
Clément Charles François de Laverdy
Clément Charles François de Laverdy
Clément Charles François de Laverdy was a French statesman.-Life:He was a member of the parlement of Paris when the case against the Jesuits came before that body in August 1761...

14 December 1763 20 September 1768
Étienne Maynon d'Invault
Étienne Maynon d'Invault
Étienne Maynon d'Invault was a French statesman.-Life:Son of Vincent Maynon of Invault and Agnes Bouvard Fourqueux, in 1758 he married his cousin Elizabeth Adelaide Bouvard Fourqueux....

22 September 1768 19 December 1769
Joseph Marie Terray
Joseph Marie Terray
Joseph Marie Terray was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France, an agent of fiscal reform, cut short by his death....

22 December 1769 24 August 1774
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune , often referred to as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Turgot was a student of Francois Quesnay and as such belonged to the Physiocratic school of economic thought...

24 August 1774 12 May 1776
Jean Étienne Bernard Ogier de Clugny 21 May 1776 18 October 1776
Louis-Gabriel Taboureau des Réaux 21 October 1776 29 June 1777
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.-Early life:...


(Director-General of Finances)
29 June 1777 19 May 1781
Jean-François Joly de Fleury 21 May 1781 29 March 1783
Henri François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson 29 March 1783 1 November 1783
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.-Rise to prominence:...

3 November 1783 9 April 1787
Michel Bouvard de Fourqueux 10 April 1787 1 May 1787
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne
Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne was a French churchman, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI.-Life:...


(President of the Royal Council of Finances)
1 May 1787 25 August 1788
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.-Early life:...


(Director-General of Finances)
26 August 1788 11 July 1789
Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil
(President of the Royal Council of Finances)
13 July 1789 16 July 1789
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789.-Early life:...


(Director-General of Finances)
16 July 1789 4 September 1790
Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert 4 September 1790 4 December 1790
Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart 4 December 1790 27 April 1791

Ministers of Finance, 1791–1944

Minister Term start Term end
Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart 27 April 1791 29 May 1791
Louis Hardouin Tarbé 29 May 1791 24 March 1792
Étienne Clavière
Étienne Clavière
Étienne Clavière was a Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.-Geneva and London:...

24 March 1792 13 June 1792
Antoine Duranthon 13 June 1792 18 June 1792
Jules Émile François Hervé de Beaulieu 18 June 1792 29 July 1792
Joseph Delaville-Leroulx 29 July 1792 10 August 1792
Étienne Clavière
Étienne Clavière
Étienne Clavière was a Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.-Geneva and London:...

10 August 1792 13 June 1793
Louis Grégoire Des Champs des Tournelles 13 June 1793 20 April 1794
none 20 April 1794 8 November 1795
Guillaume-Charles Faipoult 8 November 1795 14 February 1796
Jacques Ramel de Nogaret 14 February 1796 20 July 1799
Robert Lindet 20 July 1799 10 November 1799
Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, duc de Gaète 10 November 1799 1 April 1814
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis , French statesman and financier, was born at Toul .At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis had already some reputation as a financial expert...

3 April 1814 20 March 1815
Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, duc de Gaète 20 March 1815 7 July 1815
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis , French statesman and financier, was born at Toul .At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis had already some reputation as a financial expert...

9 July 1815 26 September 1815
Louis Emmanuel, comte Corvetto 26 September 1815 7 December 1818
Antoine Roy 7 December 1818 29 December 1818
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis , French statesman and financier, was born at Toul .At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis had already some reputation as a financial expert...

29 December 1818 19 November 1819
Antoine Roy 19 November 1819 14 December 1821
Jean-Baptiste de Villèle 14 December 1821 4 January 1828
Antoine, comte Roy 4 January 1828 8 August 1829
Christophe, comte de Chabrol de Crouzol 8 August 1829 19 May 1830
Guillaume Isidore, comte de Montbel 19 May 1830 31 July 1830
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis , French statesman and financier, was born at Toul .At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis had already some reputation as a financial expert...

31 July 1830 2 November 1830
Jacques Laffitte
Jacques Laffitte
Jacques Laffitte was a French banker and politician.-Biography:Laffitte was born at Bayonne, one of the ten children of a carpenter....

2 November 1830 13 March 1831
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis
Joseph Dominique, baron Louis , French statesman and financier, was born at Toul .At the outbreak of the Revolution the abbé Louis had already some reputation as a financial expert...

13 March 1831 11 October 1832
Jean-Georges Humann 11 October 1832 10 November 1834
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy was a French economist. He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of France.-References:...

10 November 1834 18 November 1834
Jean-Georges Humann 18 November 1834 18 January 1836
Antoine, comte d'Argout 18 January 1836 6 September 1836
Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel 6 September 1836 15 April 1837
Jean Pierre Joseph Lacave-Laplagne 15 April 1837 31 March 1839
Jean-Élie Gautier 31 March 1839 12 May 1839
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy was a French economist. He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of France.-References:...

12 May 1839 1 March 1840
Privat Joseph Claramont, comte Pelet de la Lozère 1 March 1840 29 October 1840
Jean-Georges Humann 29 October 1840 25 April 1842
Jean Pierre Joseph Lacave-Laplagne 25 April 1842 9 May 1847
Pierre Sylvain Dumon 9 May 1847 24 February 1848
Michel Goudchaux 24 February 1848 5 March 1848
Louis Antoine Garnier-Pagès 5 March 1848 11 May 1848
Charles Duclerc
Charles Duclerc
Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc was a French journalist and politician of the Third Republic. He was a member of the editorial board of the National newspaper. Duclerc served as Minister of Finance from May through June in the Provisional government of France...

11 May 1848 28 June 1848
Michel Gouchaux 28 June 1848 25 October 1848
Ariste Jacques Trouvé-Chauvel 25 October 1848 20 December 1848
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy
Hippolyte Passy was a French economist. He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of France.-References:...

20 December 1848 31 October 1849
Achille Fould
Achille Fould
Achille Fould was a French financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business. As early as 1842 he entered political life, having been elected in that year as a deputy for the...

31 October 1849 24 January 1851
Charles Lebègue, comte de Germiny 24 January 1851 10 April 1851
Achille Fould
Achille Fould
Achille Fould was a French financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business. As early as 1842 he entered political life, having been elected in that year as a deputy for the...

10 April 1851 26 October 1851
Antoine Blondel 26 October 1851 23 November 1851
François, comte de Casabianca 23 November 1851 3 December 1851
Achille Fould
Achille Fould
Achille Fould was a French financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business. As early as 1842 he entered political life, having been elected in that year as a deputy for the...

3 December 1851 22 January 1852
Jean Bineau 22 January 1852 3 February 1855
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne was a French professional road bicycle racer. Magne won one stage in the 1928 Tour de France, and finished 6th in the 1930 Tour de France. Pierre Magne was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Antonin Magne.- Palmarès :1927...

3 February 1855 26 November 1860
Adolphe Forcade La Roquette 26 November 1860 14 November 1861
Achille Fould
Achille Fould
Achille Fould was a French financier and politician.Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business. As early as 1842 he entered political life, having been elected in that year as a deputy for the...

14 November 1861 20 January 1867
Eugène Rouher
Eugène Rouher
Eugène Rouher was a French statesman of the Second Empire.He was born at Riom , where he practised law after taking his degree in Paris in 1835. In 1846 he sought election to the Chamber of Deputies as an official candidate of the Guizot ministry...

20 January 1867 13 November 1867
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne was a French professional road bicycle racer. Magne won one stage in the 1928 Tour de France, and finished 6th in the 1930 Tour de France. Pierre Magne was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Antonin Magne.- Palmarès :1927...

13 November 1867 2 January 1870
Louis Buffet
Louis Buffet
Louis Joseph Buffet was a French statesman.He was born at Mirecourt, Vosges. After the revolution of February 1848 he was elected deputy for the department of the Vosges, and in the Assembly sat on the right, pronouncing for the repression of the insurrection of June 1848 and for Louis Napoleon...

2 January 1870 14 April 1870
Émile Alexis Segris 14 April 1870 10 August 1870
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne was a French professional road bicycle racer. Magne won one stage in the 1928 Tour de France, and finished 6th in the 1930 Tour de France. Pierre Magne was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Antonin Magne.- Palmarès :1927...

10 August 1870 4 September 1870
Ernest Picard
Ernest Picard
Louis Joseph Ernest Picard was a French politician.He was born in Paris. After taking his doctorate in law in 1846 he joined the Parisian bar. Elected to the corps législatif in 1858, he became a follower of Émile Ollivier...

4 September 1870 19 February 1871
Louis Buffet
Louis Buffet
Louis Joseph Buffet was a French statesman.He was born at Mirecourt, Vosges. After the revolution of February 1848 he was elected deputy for the department of the Vosges, and in the Assembly sat on the right, pronouncing for the repression of the insurrection of June 1848 and for Louis Napoleon...

19 February 1871 25 February 1871
Augustin Pouver-Quertier 25 February 1871 23 April 1872
Eugène de Goulard 23 April 1872 7 December 1872
Léon Say
Léon Say
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say , French statesman and economist, was born in Paris.-Biography:The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. His brother Louis Auguste Say , director of a sugar refinery at Nantes, wrote several books against his theories...

7 December 1872 25 May 1873
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne
Pierre Magne was a French professional road bicycle racer. Magne won one stage in the 1928 Tour de France, and finished 6th in the 1930 Tour de France. Pierre Magne was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Antonin Magne.- Palmarès :1927...

25 May 1873 20 July 1874
Pierre Mathieu-Bodet 20 July 1874 10 March 1875
Léon Say
Léon Say
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say , French statesman and economist, was born in Paris.-Biography:The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. His brother Louis Auguste Say , director of a sugar refinery at Nantes, wrote several books against his theories...

10 March 1875 17 May 1877
Eugène Caillaux 17 May 1877 23 November 1877
François Dutilleul 23 November 1877 13 December 1877
Léon Say
Léon Say
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say , French statesman and economist, was born in Paris.-Biography:The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. His brother Louis Auguste Say , director of a sugar refinery at Nantes, wrote several books against his theories...

13 December 1877 28 December 1879
Pierre Magnin 28 December 1879 14 November 1881
François Allain-Targé 14 November 1881 30 January 1882
Léon Say
Léon Say
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say , French statesman and economist, was born in Paris.-Biography:The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. His brother Louis Auguste Say , director of a sugar refinery at Nantes, wrote several books against his theories...

30 January 1882 7 August 1882
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...

7 August 1882 6 April 1885
Jean Clamageran 6 April 1885 16 April 1885
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman and the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.-Early life:...

16 April 1885 11 December 1886
Albert Dauphin 11 December 1886 30 May 1887
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...

30 May 1887 12 December 1887
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...

12 December 1887 3 April 1888
Paul Peytral 3 April 1888 22 February 1889
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...

22 February 1889 12 December 1892
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Tirard
Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...

13 December 1892 4 April 1893
Paul Peytral 4 April 1893 3 December 1893
Auguste Burdeau
Auguste Burdeau
Auguste-Laurent Burdeau was a French politician.He was the son of a laborer at Lyon. Forced from childhood to earn his own living, he was enabled to secure an education by bursarships at the Lycée at Lyon and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.In 1870 he was at the École Normale Supérieure in...

3 December 1893 30 May 1894
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Poincaré was a conservative leader primarily committed to political and social stability...

30 May 1894 26 January 1895
Alexandre Ribot
Alexandre Ribot
Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.-Biography:He was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais.After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where he was lauréat of the faculty of law, he rapidly made his mark at the bar...

26 January 1895 1 November 1895
Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer
Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination.-Biography:...

1 November 1895 29 April 1896
Georges Cochery
Georges Cochery
Georges Charles Paul Cochery was the son of Louis-Adolphe Cochery.He was deputy of his father's département of the Loiret from 1879 till 1885, deputy from 1885, five times president of the Budget Commission, minister of finance and vice-president of the chamber , and again finance minister in the...

29 April 1896 28 June 1898
Paul Peytral 28 June 1898 22 June 1899
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

22 June 1899 7 June 1902
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier
Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...

7 June 1902 17 June 1905
Pierre Merlou 17 June 1905 14 March 1906
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Poincaré was a conservative leader primarily committed to political and social stability...

14 March 1906 25 October 1906
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

25 October 1906 24 July 1909
Georges Cochery
Georges Cochery
Georges Charles Paul Cochery was the son of Louis-Adolphe Cochery.He was deputy of his father's département of the Loiret from 1879 till 1885, deputy from 1885, five times president of the Budget Commission, minister of finance and vice-president of the chamber , and again finance minister in the...

24 July 1909 3 November 1910
Louis Lucien Klotz 3 November 1910 2 March 1911
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

2 March 1911 27 June 1911
Louis Lucien Klotz 27 June 1911 22 March 1913
Charles Dumont 22 March 1913 9 December 1913
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

9 December 1913 17 March 1914
René Renoult
René Renoult
René Renoult was a French Minister and lawyer.Renoult is the son of Étienne and Élisa Geranger, a female day laborer. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1888...

17 March 1914 9 June 1914
Étienne Clémentel 9 June 1914 13 June 1914
Joseph Noullens 13 June 1914 26 August 1914
Alexandre Ribot
Alexandre Ribot
Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.-Biography:He was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais.After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where he was lauréat of the faculty of law, he rapidly made his mark at the bar...

26 August 1914 20 March 1917
Joseph Thierry 20 March 1917 12 September 1917
Louis Lucien Klotz 12 September 1917 20 January 1920
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal was a French Politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924. Due to his premiership he also served for two days as the Acting President of the French Republic between resignation of Alexandre Millerand and election of Gaston...

20 January 1920 16 January 1921
Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer
Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination.-Biography:...

16 January 1921 15 January 1922
Charles de Lasteyrie 15 January 1922 29 March 1924
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal
Frédéric François-Marsal was a French Politician of the Third Republic, who served briefly as Prime Minister in 1924. Due to his premiership he also served for two days as the Acting President of the French Republic between resignation of Alexandre Millerand and election of Gaston...

29 March 1924 14 June 1924
Étienne Clementel 14 June 1924 3 April 1925
Anatole de Monzie
Anatole de Monzie
Anatole de Monzie was a French administrator, encyclopaedist , political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde where Anatole - a name he disliked from an early age - was born in 1876...

3 April 1925 17 April 1925
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

17 April 1925 29 October 1925
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....

29 October 1925 28 November 1925
Louis Loucheur
Louis Loucheur
Louis Loucheur was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.-Life:Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Munitions in...

28 November 1925 16 December 1925
Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer
Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer was the President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination.-Biography:...

16 December 1925 9 March 1926
Raoul Péret
Raoul Péret
Raoul Adolphe Péret was a French lawyer and politician.-Biography:Raoul Péret was born in Châtellerault , son of a magistrate. He followed his father into the law, becoming an advocate at the Court of Cassation in Paris. In 1893 he served as an aide to Justice Minister Eugène Guérin...

9 March 1926 23 June 1926
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

23 June 1926 19 July 1926
Anatole de Monzie
Anatole de Monzie
Anatole de Monzie was a French administrator, encyclopaedist , political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas, Gironde where Anatole - a name he disliked from an early age - was born in 1876...

19 July 1926 23 July 1926
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Poincaré was a conservative leader primarily committed to political and social stability...

23 July 1926 11 November 1928
Henry Chéron 11 November 1928 21 February 1930
Charles Dumont 21 February 1930 2 March 1930
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Democratic Republican Alliance center-right...

2 March 1930 13 December 1930
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930's....

13 December 1930 27 January 1931
Pierre Étienne Flandin
Pierre Étienne Flandin
Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance , and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935....

27 January 1931 3 June 1932
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930's....

3 June 1932 18 December 1932
Henry Chéron 18 December 1932 31 January 1933
Georges Bonnet
Georges Bonnet
Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...

31 January 1933 30 January 1934
François Piétri
François Piétri
François Piétri was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime....

30 January 1934 4 February 1934
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau was a French politician. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur, for his actions during World War I. From 1925 until 1942, he was the mayor of Reims...

4 February 1934 9 February 1934
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin
Louis Germain-Martin was an Independent Radical French politician. He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the government of André Tardieu, and later a Budget Minister, before serving three times as Finance minister for much of the first half of the 1930's....

9 February 1934 1 June 1935
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph Caillaux
Joseph-Marie–Auguste Caillaux was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the Radicals, he favored a policy of conciliation with Germany during his premiership from 1911 to 1912, which led to the maintenance of the peace during the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911...

1 June 1935 7 June 1935
Marcel Régnier 7 June 1935 4 June 1936
Vincent Auriol
Vincent Auriol
Vincent Jules Auriol was a French politician who served as the first President of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954. He also served as interim President of the Provisional Government from November to December 1946, making him one of only three people who were heads of state of the French...

4 June 1936 22 June 1937
Georges Bonnet
Georges Bonnet
Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...

22 June 1937 18 January 1938
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau was a French politician. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur, for his actions during World War I. From 1925 until 1942, he was the mayor of Reims...

18 January 1938 13 March 1938
Léon Blum
Léon Blum
André Léon Blum was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.-First political experiences:...

13 March 1938 10 April 1938
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau
Paul Marchandeau was a French politician. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur, for his actions during World War I. From 1925 until 1942, he was the mayor of Reims...

10 April 1938 1 November 1938
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Democratic Republican Alliance center-right...

1 November 1938 21 March 1940
Lucien Lamoureux
Lucien Lamoureux
Lucien Lamoureux, PC, OC was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1966 to 1974...

21 March 1940 5 June 1940
Yves Bouthillier 5 June 1940 18 April 1942
Pierre Cathala 18 April 1942 20 August 1944

Free French Commissioners of Finance, 1941–1944

Commissioner Term start Term end
René Pleven
René Pleven
René Pléven was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance , a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement...

24 September 1941 17 October 1942
André Diethelm 17 October 1942 7 June 1943
Maurice Couve de Murville
Maurice Couve de Murville
Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle....

7 June 1943 9 November 1943
Pierre Mendès-France
Pierre Mendès-France
Pierre Mendès France was a French politician. He descended from a Portuguese Jewish family that moved to France in the sixteenth century.-Third Republic and World War II:...

9 November 1943 4 September 1944

Ministers of Finance, 1944–present

Minister Term start Term end
Aimé Lepercq
Aimé Lepercq
Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.Born in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, Rhône, as the eldest of nine children, he graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1911, and then the École des Mines.Lepercq fought in World War I, in which he was wounded three...

4 September 1944 9 November 1944
René Pleven
René Pleven
René Pléven was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance , a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement...

16 November 1944 26 January 1946
André Philip
André Philip
André Philip was an SFIO who served as an Interior Minister for the Free French during the war. He also served as a finance minister in 1946 and part of 1947....

26 January 1946 24 June 1946
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist...

24 June 1946 18 December 1946
André Philip
André Philip
André Philip was an SFIO who served as an Interior Minister for the Free French during the war. He also served as a finance minister in 1946 and part of 1947....

18 December 1946 22 January 1947
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist...

22 January 1947 24 November 1947
René Mayer
René Mayer
René Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.-Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953:*René Mayer – President of the Council...

24 November 1947 26 July 1948
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Democratic Republican Alliance center-right...

26 July 1948 5 September 1948
Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter.He was born in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France and died in Paris.His father-in-law was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother...

5 September 1948 11 September 1948
Henri Queuille
Henri Queuille
Henri Queuille was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister.He was the son of a noblewoman.-First ministry :...

11 September 1948 12 January 1949
Maurice Petsche 12 January 1949 11 August 1951
René Mayer
René Mayer
René Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958.-Mayer's Ministry, 8 January – 28 June 1953:*René Mayer – President of the Council...

11 August 1951 20 January 1952
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...

20 January 1952 8 March 1952
Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay |Rhône]], France – 13 December 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France in 1952.-Life:As a young man, Pinay fought in World War I and injured his arm so that it was paralyzed for the rest of his life....

8 March 1952 8 January 1953
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.He is famous, especially, for fulfilling prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis....

8 January 1953 28 June 1953
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...

28 June 1953 20 January 1955
Robert Buron
Robert Buron
Robert Buron was a French politician and Minister of Finance from 20 January 1955 to 23 February 1955 and Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism during Charles de Gaulle's third term from 9 June 1958 to 8 January 1959.Buron was born in Paris, where he also died. He was kidnapped during...

20 January 1955 23 February 1955
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...

23 February 1955 1 February 1956
Robert Lacoste
Robert Lacoste
Robert Lacoste was French politician. He was a socialist MP of the Dordogne from 1945 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1967, then senator from 1971 to 1980.- Biography :...

1 February 1956 14 February 1956
Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier
Paul Ramadier was a prominent French politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947. On 10 July 1940, he voted against the granting of the full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who...

14 February 1956 13 June 1957
Félix Gaillard
Félix Gaillard
Félix Gaillard d'Aimé was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958. He was the youngest head of a French government since Napoleon.-Career:...

13 June 1957 6 November 1957
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...

6 November 1957 14 May 1958
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...

14 May 1958 1 June 1958
Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay |Rhône]], France – 13 December 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France in 1952.-Life:As a young man, Pinay fought in World War I and injured his arm so that it was paralyzed for the rest of his life....

1 June 1958 13 January 1960
Wilfrid Baumgartner 13 January 1960 19 January 1962
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...

19 January 1962 8 January 1966
Michel Debré
Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré was a French Gaullist politician. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France, and was the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic...

8 January 1966 30 May 1968
Maurice Couve de Murville
Maurice Couve de Murville
Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle....

30 May 1968 10 July 1968
François-Xavier Ortoli
François-Xavier Ortoli
François-Xavier Ortoli was a French Gaullist politician and businessman. He served with the Free French Forces during World War II and was decorated with the Croix de guerre, Médaille militaire and Médaille de la Résistance...

10 July 1968 16 June 1969
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...

16 June 1969 28 May 1974
Jean-Pierre Fourcade
Jean-Pierre Fourcade
Jean-Pierre Fourcade is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Hauts-de-Seine department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party. He is former minister for Economics and Finance , and equipment .-References:*...

28 May 1974 27 August 1976
Raymond Barre
Raymond Barre
Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three Presidents and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981...

27 August 1976 5 April 1978
René Monory
René Monory
René Monory was a French centre-right politician.-Biography:René Monory was born in Loudun and began his career as the owner of a garage. He was the founder of the Poitiers Futuroscope.Monory first became a Senator in 1968...

5 April 1978 22 May 1981
Jacques Delors
Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...

22 May 1981 19 July 1984
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.-Early career:...

19 July 1984 20 March 1986
Édouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.-Biography:Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France...

20 March 1986 12 May 1988
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy was a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993.-Early career:...

12 May 1988 2 April 1992
Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Indre department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-Biography:...

2 April 1992 29 March 1993
Edmond Alphandéry
Edmond Alphandéry
Edmond Alphandéry is a French politician, born 2 September 1943 in Avignon, Vaucluse.-Education and early employment:* Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris – Fulbright Fellowship...

29 March 1993 18 May 1995
Alain Madelin
Alain Madelin
Alain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country.Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round...

18 May 1995 25 August 1995
Jean Arthuis
Jean Arthuis
Jean Arthuis is a French politician and member of the Senate of France. He has held various ministerial positions, especially regarding finances, and is now head of the Finance Commission of the French Senate.He is the President of the Centrist Alliance political party and is a member of the...

25 August 1995 4 June 1997
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...

4 June 1997 2 November 1999
Christian Sautter
Christian Sautter
Christian Sautter is a French politician. He served as Minister for Economics, Finance, and Industry from 1999 to 2000 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government.-External links:*...

2 November 1999 28 March 2000
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic.-Early life:...

28 March 2000 7 May 2002
Francis Mer
Francis Mer
Francis Mer is a French businessman, industrialist and politician. A former alumnus of the Ecole polytechnique, he was hired in 1970 by the Saint-Gobain group. In 1982, he became chairman of the board of Pont-à-Mousson SA...

7 May 2002 31 March 2004
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....

31 March 2004 28 November 2004
Hervé Gaymard
Hervé Gaymard
Hervé Gaymard is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party. He served as the country's Minister of Finances from 30 November 2004 until his resignation on 25 February 2005....

30 November 2004 25 February 2005
Thierry Breton
Thierry Breton
Thierry Breton is a French businessman and politician who is currently the CEO of the IT firm Atos. He was the French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin, Jacques Chirac being the President de la...

25 February 2005 18 May 2007
Jean-Louis Borloo
Jean-Louis Borloo
Jean-Louis Borloo is a French politician, and was the French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning between 2007 and 2010.-Professional résumé:Education...

18 May 2007 19 June 2007
Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund since July 5, 2011...

19 June 2007 29 June 2011
François Baroin
François Baroin
François Baroin is a French politician, recently appointed Finance Minister, following a stint as Minister of the Budget in the François Fillon III government...

29 June 2011 Incumbent
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