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Prime Minister of France

head of government and of the Council of Ministers of France

26 dated entries naming Prime Minister of France, drawn from 22 separate years between 1560 CE and 2019 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as French Prime Minister, Prime Minister of the French Republic, Prime minister of France in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 1560December 13 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (died 1641)source
  • 1585September 9 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman and 4th Prime Minister of France (died 1642)source
  • 1585September 9 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Politician and 4th Prime Minister of France (died 1642)source

17th century

  • 1641December 22 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (born 1560)source

18th century

  • 1726June 11 – André-Hercule de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France (his former pupil), forces banishment of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, the Prime Minister, and the Duke's mistress Madame de Prie from court. Financier Jean Pâris de Monmartel is also removed from his position as Guard of the Royal Treasury.source
  • 1740January 27 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (born 1692)source

19th century

  • 1828January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, succeeds the Comte de Villèle as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1829August 8 – The Prince de Polignac succeeds the Vicomte de Martignac as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1830August 13 – The Duc de Broglie is appointed Prime Minister of France by Louis Philippe.source
  • 1830November 2 – Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1848February 23 – French Revolution of 1848: François Guizot, Prime Minister of France, resigns; 52 people from the Paris mob are killed by soldiers guarding public buildings.source
  • 1872April 9 – Léon Blum, French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1950)source
  • 1883June 28 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (died 1945)source
  • 1899February 18 – The National Assembly of France elects a new President to serve the remainder of the late President Faure's term. Senate president Émile Loubet wins the vote against prime minister Jules Méline.source

20th century

  • 1929November 24 – Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, leader during World War I (born 1841)source
  • 1930March 2 – André Tardieu begins his second term as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1940June 16 – The Churchill war ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union (inspired by Jean Monnet) to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to an armistice with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to accept it.source
  • 1940June 17 – Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France, and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.source
  • 1940July 11 – Vichy France begins with a constitutional law which only eighty members of the parliament vote against. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1947November 20 – Paul Ramadier resigns as Prime Minister of France. He is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls in 80,000 army reservists to quell rioting miners in France.source
  • 1950March 30 – Léon Blum, French statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of France (born 1872)source
  • 1951July 23 – Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France, 78th Prime Minister of France (born 1856)source
  • 1970November 9 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (born 1890)source
  • 1976August 25 – Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre.source
  • 1993March 28 – 1993 French legislative election: Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.source

21st century

  • 2019September 26 – Jacques Chirac, 86, French politician, President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra (1995–2007), Prime Minister (1974–1976, 1986–1988) and Mayor of Paris (1977–1995).source

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