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
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
| President | Began | Ended |
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| Joseph, Vicomte Lainé | 11 June 1814 | 20 March 1815 |
Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives, 1815
| President | Began | Ended |
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| Jean-Denis, Comte Lanjuinais | 4 June 1815 | 13 July 1815 |
Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1815-1830
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1830-1848
Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, 1848-1849
Presidents of the National Legislative Assembly, 1849-1852
| President | Began | Ended |
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| André Marie Dupin | 1 June 1849 | 2 December 1851 |
Presidents of the Legislative Corps, 1852-1870
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1871-1940
Presidents of the Consultative Assembly (Free French), 1943-1945
| President | Began | Ended |
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| Félix Gouin | 9 November 1943 | 8 November 1945 |
List of Presidents of the Constituent National Assembly, 1945-1946
| President | Began | Ended |
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| Félix Gouin | 8 November 1945 | 22 January 1946 |
| Vincent Auriol | 31 January 1946 | 27 November 1946 |