List of Presidents of France

This is a list of Presidents of France. The first President of France is considered to be

President of the Provisional Government of the Republic

 * Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (24 February 1848 – 9 May 1848)

Executive Commission
Members of the Executive Commission (10 May 1848 – 24 June 1848):
 * François Arago (President of the Executive Commission)
 * Alphonse de Lamartine
 * Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès
 * Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
 * Pierre Marie (de Saint-Georges)

Chief of the Executive Power

 * Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (28 June 1848 – 20 December 1848)

President of the Republic

 * Political parties

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor of the French in 1852, reigning as Emperor Napoleon III 1852–1870 (Second French Empire).

President of the Government of National Defense

 * Louis Jules Trochu (4 September 1870 – 13 February 1871)

Chief of the Executive Power

 * Adolphe Thiers (17 February 1871 – 30 August 1871) (became President on 31 August 1871)

Presidents of the Republic

 * Political parties

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

Chief of State

 * Maréchal Philippe Pétain (11 July 1940 – 19 August 1944)

Chairmen of the Provisional Government

 * Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle (3 June 1944 – 26 January 1946)
 * Félix Gouin (26 January 1946 – 24 June 1946)
 * Georges Bidault (24 June 1946 – 28 November 1946)
 * Vincent Auriol (interim) (28 November 1946 – 16 December 1946)
 * Léon Blum (16 December 1946 – 16 January 1947)

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