List of Presidents of the French National Assembly

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This page lists Presidents of the Lower Chamber (or only chamber, as the case may be) of the French parliament. The National Constituent Assembly was created in 1789 out of the Estates-General. It, and the revolutionary legislative assemblies that followed - the Legislative Assembly (1791-1792) and the National Convention (1792-1795), had a quickly rotating Presidency. With the establishment of the Directory in 1795, there were two chambers of the French legislature. The lower, the Council of Five Hundred, also had a quickly rotating chairmanship. Under Napoleon I, the Legislative Corps had all authority to actually enact laws, but was essentially a rubberstamp body, lacking the power to debate legislation. With the restoration of the monarchy, a bicameral system was restored, with a Chamber of Peers and a Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies, for the first time, had presidents elected for a substantial period of time.

With the revolution of 1848, the monarchical assemblies were dissolved and replaced again with a unicameral National Assembly, which Napoleon III replaced with a new version of his uncle's Legislative Corps. With the establishment of the Third Republic, the name of Chamber of Deputies was restored, and after 1876 was joined by a Senate as an upper house. The Chamber of Deputies was renamed the National Assembly in the constitution of the Fourth Republic, and is still known as that.

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Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, 1789-1791

PresidentBeganEnded
Jean-Sylvain Bailly17 June 17893 July 1789
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans3 July 17893 July 1789
Jean-Georges Lefranc de Pompignan3 July 178918 July 1789
François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt18 July 17893 August 1789
Jacques Guillaume Thouret3 August 17893 August 1789
Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier3 August 178917 August 1789
Stanislas, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre17 August 178931 August 1789
César Guillaume de La Luzerne31 August 17899 September 1789
Stanislas, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre9 September 178928 September 1789
Jean-Joseph Mounier28 September 178910 October 1789
Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just10 October 178928 October 1789
Armand Gaston Camus28 October 178912 November 1789
Jacques Guillaume Thouret12 November 178923 November 1789
Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé23 November 17895 December 1789
Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just5 December 178922 December 1789
Jean-Nicolas Démeunier22 December 17894 January 1790
François Xavier de Montesquiou-Fezensac4 January 179018 January 1790
Guy Jean Baptiste Target18 January 17902 February 1790
Jean Xavier Bureaux de Puzy2 February 179016 February 1790
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord16 February 179028 February 1790
François Xavier de Montesquiou-Fezensac28 February 179015 March 1790
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne15 March 179027 March 1790
Jean-François, baron de Menou27 March 179012 April 1790
Charles François, marquis de Bonnay12 April 179027 April 1790
François Henri, comte de Virieu27 April 179029 April 1790
Jean-Louis Gouttes29 April 17908 May 1790
Jacques Guillaume Thouret8 May 179027 May 1790
Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumetz27 May 17908 June 1790
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès8 June 179021 June 1790
Le Pelletier Saint-Fargeau21 June 17905 July 1790
Marquis de Bonnay5 July 179020 July 1790
Jean-Baptiste Treilhard20 July 17901 August 1790
D'André1 August 179016 August 1790
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours16 August 179030 August 1790
Jessé30 August 179012 September 1790
Bureaux de Pusy12 September 179026 September 1790
Emmery26 September 17909 October 1790
Philippe-Antoine Merlin9 October 179025 October 1790
Antoine-Pierre-Joseph-Marie Barnave25 October 17908 November 1790
Chasset8 November 179021 November 1790
Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth21 November 17905 December 1790
Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve5 December 179022 December 1790
D'André22 December 17904 January 1791
Emmery4 January 179118 January 1791
Henri-Baptiste Grégoire18 January 179130 January 1791
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau30 January 179115 February 1791
Adrien-Jean-François Duport15 February 179127 February 1791
Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles27 February 179114 March 1791
Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac14 March 179130 March 1791
Tronchet30 March 179110 April 1791
Chabroud10 April 179125 April 1791
Jean-François Reubell25 April 179110 May 1791
D'André10 May 179127 May 1791
Bureaux de Pusy27 May 17916 June 1791
Dauchy6 June 179119 June 1791
Alexandre-François-Marie, vicomte de Beauharnais19 June 17913 July 1791
Charles-Malo-François, comte de Lameth3 July 179119 July 1791
Joseph-Jacques Defermon19 July 179131 July 1791
Alexandre-François-Marie, vicomte de Beauharnais31 July 179114 August 1791
Charles-Louis-Victor, prince de Broglie14 August 179128 August 1791
Théodore Vernier28 August 179111 September 1791
Jacques-Guillaume Thouret11 September 179130 September 1791

Presidents of the Legislative Assembly, 1791-1792

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Presidents of the National Convention, 1792-1795

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Presidents of the Council of Five Hundred, 1795-1799

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Presidents of the Legislative Corps, 1800-1814

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Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1814-1815

PresidentBeganEnded
Joseph, Vicomte Lainé11 June 181420 March 1815

Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives, 1815

PresidentBeganEnded
Jean-Denis, Comte Lanjuinais4 June 181513 July 1815

Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1815-1830

PresidentBeganEnded
Joseph, Vicomte Lainé12 October 18155 September 1816
Étienne, Duc Pasquier12 November 181613 November 1817
Pierre François Hercule, Comte de Serre13 November 181711 December 1818
Auguste Ravez11 December 18185 November 1827
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard25 February 182816 May 1830

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1830-1848

PresidentBeganEnded
Casimir Pierre Périer6 August 183021 August 1830
Jacques Laffitte21 August 183011 November 1830
Casimir Pierre Périer11 November 183031 May 1831
Louis Gaspard Amédéee, Baron Girod de l'Ain1 August 183128 April 1832
André Marie Dupin29 April 18322 February 1839
Hippolyte Passy16 April 183912 May 1839
Paul Sauzet24 December 183924 February 1848

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, 1848-1849

PresidentBeganEnded
Philippe Joseph Benjamin Buchez5 May 18485 June 1848
Antoine Marie Jules Sénard5 June 184829 June 1848
Alexandre Marie29 June 184819 July 1848
Armand Marrast19 July 184826 May 1849

Presidents of the National Legislative Assembly, 1849-1852

PresidentBeganEnded
André Marie Dupin1 June 18492 December 1851

Presidents of the Legislative Corps, 1852-1870

PresidentBeganEnded
Adolphe Billault9 March 185212 November 1854
Charles Auguste, Duc de Morny12 November 185410 March 1865
Alexandre Colonna, Comte Walewski1 September 186529 March 1867
Eugène Schneider2 April 18674 September 1870

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1871-1940

PresidentBeganEnded
Denis Emmanuel, Comte Benoist d'Azy13 February 187116 February 1871
Jules Grévy16 February 18714 April 1873
Louis Buffet4 April 187315 March 1875
Edmé-Armand-Gaston, Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier15 March 187513 March 1876
Jules Grévy13 March 187631 January 1879
Léon Gambetta31 January 18793 November 1881
Henri Brisson3 November 18818 April 1885
Charles Floquet8 April 18854 April 1888
Jules Méline4 April 188816 November 1889
Charles Floquet16 November 188916 January 1893
Jean Casimir-Périer16 January 18935 December 1895
Charles Dupuy5 December 18932 June 1894
Jean Casimir-Périer2 June 18945 July 1894
Auguste Burdeau5 July 189412 December 1894
Henri Brisson18 December 18949 June 1898
Paul Deschanel9 June 189810 June 1902
Léon Bourgeois10 June 190210 January 1905
Paul Doumer10 January 19058 June 1906
Henri Brisson8 June 190623 May 1912
Paul Deschanel23 May 191212 February 1920
Raoul Péret12 February 19209 June 1924
Paul Painlevé9 June 192422 April 1925
Edouard Herriot22 April 192522 July 1926
Raoul Péret22 July 192611 January 1927
Fernand Bouisson11 January 19274 June 1936
Edouard Herriot4 June 19369 July 1940

Presidents of the Consultative Assembly (Free French), 1943-1945

PresidentBeganEnded
Félix Gouin9 November 19438 November 1945

List of Presidents of the Constituent National Assembly, 1945-1946

PresidentBeganEnded
Félix Gouin8 November 194522 January 1946
Vincent Auriol31 January 194627 November 1946

Presidents of the National Assembly, 1946-present

PresidentBeganEnded
Vincent Auriol3 December 194621 January 1947
Edouard Herriot21 January 194712 January 1954
André Le Troquer12 January 195411 January 1955
Pierre Schneiter11 January 195524 January 1956
André Le Troquer24 January 19569 December 1958
Jacques Chaban-Delmas9 December 195825 June 1969
Achille Peretti25 June 19692 April 1973
Edgar Faure2 April 19733 April 1978
Jacques Chaban-Delmas3 April 19782 July 1981
Louis Mermaz2 July 19812 April 1986
Jacques Chaban-Delmas2 April 198623 June 1988
Laurent Fabius23 June 198822 January 1992
Henri Emmanuelli22 January 19922 April 1993
Philippe Séguin2 April 199312 June 1997
Laurent Fabius12 June 199729 March 2000
Raymond Forni29 March 200025 June 2002
Jean-Louis Debré25 June 2002
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