Rulers of France

HEAD OF STATE/GOVERNMENT

REIGN/OFFICE

Carolingian Dynasty
Pepin the Short	751-768
Charlemagne	768-814
Louis I	814-840
Charles I	840-877
Louis II	877-879
Louis III	879-882*
Carloman	879-884*
Charles II	884-887
Eudes (Odo), Count of Paris	888-898
Charles III	898-923
Robert I	922-923
Rudolf (Raoul), Duke of Burgundy	923-936
Louis IV	936-954
Lothair	954-986
Louis V	986-987
Capetian Dynasty
Hugh Capet	987-996
Robert II	996-1031
Henry I	1031-1060
Philip I	1060-1108
Louis VI	1108-1137
Louis VII	1137-1180
Philip II	1180-1223
Louis VIII	1223-1226
Louis IX	1226-1270
Philip III	1270-1285
Philip IV	1285-1314
Louis X	1314-1316
John I	1316
Philip V	1317-1322
Charles IV	1322-1328
House of Valois
Philip VI	1328-1350
John II	1350-1364
Charles V	1364-1380
Charles VI	1380-1422
Charles VII	1422-1461
Louis XI	1461-1483
Charles VIII	1483-1498
Louis XII	1498-1515
Francis I	1515-1547
Henry II	1547-1559
Francis II	1559-1560
Charles IX	1560-1574
Henry III	1574-1589
House of Bourbon
Henry IV	1589-1610
Louis XIII	1610-1643
Louis XIV	1643-1715
Louis XV	1715-1774
Louis XVI	1774-1792
Louis XVII (Louis Charles de France)	1793-1795
First Republic
National Convention	1792-1795
Directory	1795-1799
Consulate
Napoleon Bonaparte	1799-1804
First Empire
Napoleon I	1804-1815
House of Bourbon (Restored)
Louis XVIII	1814-1815, 1815-1824
Charles X	1824-1830
Bourbon-Orleans Line
Louis Philippe	1830-1848
Second Republic
Louis Napoleon	1848-1852
Second Empire
Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon)	1852-1870
Third Republic
Adolphe Thiers	1871-1873
Comte de MacMahon	1873-1879
Jules Grévy	1879-1887
Marie Sadi Carnot	1887-1894
Jean Casimir-Perier	1894-1895
François Félix Faure	1895-1899
Émile Loubet	1899-1906
Armand Fallières	1906-1913
Raymond Poincaré	1913-1920
Paul Deschanel	1920
Étienne Millerand	1920-1924
Gaston Doumergue	1924-1931
Paul Doumer	1931-1932
Albert Lebrun	1932-1940
Vichy Government
Henri Philippe Pétain	1940-1944
Provisional Government
Charles de Gaulle	1944-1946
Félix Gouin	1946
Georges Bidault	1946-1947
Fourth Republic
Vincent Auriol	1947-1954
René Coty	1954-1959
Fifth Republic
Charles de Gaulle	1959-1969
Georges Pompidou	1969-1974
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	1974-1981
François Mitterrand	1981-1995
Jacques Chirac	1995-2007
Nicolas Sarkozy	2007-
* simultaneous reign