List of Foreign Ministers of France

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This list contains all French foreign ministers since 1589.

Ancien Régime

minister Beginning The End
Louis de Revol January 1, 1589 September 17, 1594
Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy December 30, 1594 August 9, 1616
Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu November 30, 1616 April 24, 1617
Pierre Brûlart April 24, 1617 March 11, 1626
Raymond Phélypeaux, seigneur d'Herbault March 11, 1626 May 2, 1629
Claude Bouthillier May 2, 1629 March 18, 1632
Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny March 18, 1632 June 23, 1643
Henri-Auguste de Loménie June 23, 1643 April 3, 1663
Hugues de Lionne April 3, 1663 September 1, 1671
Simon Arnauld de Pomponne September 1, 1671 November 18, 1679
Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy February 12, 1680 July 28, 1696
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy July 28, 1696 September 22, 1715
Nicolas Chalon du Blé September 23, 1715 September 1, 1718
Guillaume Dubois September 24, 1718 August 10, 1723
Charles Jean Baptiste Fleuriau de Morville August 16, 1723 August 19, 1727
Germain Louis Chauvelin August 23, 1727 February 20, 1737
Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou February 22, 1737 April 26, 1744
Adrien-Maurice de Noailles April 26, 1744 November 19, 1744
René Louis d'Argenson November 19, 1744 January 10, 1747
Louis Philogène Brûlart de Sillery January 27, 1747 September 9, 1751
François Dominique de Barberie September 11, 1751 July 24, 1754
Antoine Louis Rouillé July 24, 1754 June 28, 1757
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis June 28, 1757 October 9, 1758
Étienne-François de Choiseul December 3, 1758 October 13, 1761
César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin October 13, 1761 April 10, 1766
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul April 10, 1766 December 24, 1770
Louis Phélypeaux de Saint-Florentin December 24, 1770 June 6, 1771
Emmanuel-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon June 6, 1771 June 2, 1774
Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin June 2, 1774 July 21, 1774
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes July 21, 1774 February 13, 1787
Armand Marc de Montmorin Saint-Hérem February 14, 1787 July 13, 1789
Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon July 13, 1789 July 16, 1789
Armand Marc de Montmorin Saint-Hérem July 16, 1789 November 29, 1791

revolution

minister Beginning The End
Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart November 29, 1791 March 15, 1792
Charles-François Dumouriez March 15, 1792 June 13, 1792
Pierre-Paul de Méredieu June 13, 1792 June 18, 1792
Scipion Victor, marquis de Chambonas June 18, 1792 July 23, 1792
François Joseph de Gratet July 23, 1792 August 1, 1792
Claude Bigot de Sainte-Croix August 1, 1792 August 10, 1792
Pierre Henri Hélène Marie Lebrun-Tondu August 10, 1792 June 21, 1793
François Louis Michel Chemin Deforgues June 21, 1793 April 2, 1794
Jean Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon April 5, 1794 April 8, 1794
Martial Joseph Armand Herman April 8, 1794 April 20, 1794
unoccupied April 20, 1794 November 3, 1795
Charles Delacroix November 3, 1795 July 15, 1797
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord July 15, 1797 July 20, 1799

Consulate and First Empire

minister Beginning The End
Karl Friedrich Reinhard July 20, 1799 November 22, 1799
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord November 22, 1799 August 9, 1807
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny August 9, 1807 April 17, 1811
Hugues-Bernard Maret April 17, 1811 November 20, 1813
Armand de Caulaincourt November 20, 1813 April 1, 1814

restoration

minister Beginning The End
Antoine de Laforet April 3, 1814 May 13, 1814
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord May 13, 1814 March 20, 1815

Rule of the hundred days

minister Beginning The End
Armand de Caulaincourt March 20, 1815 June 22, 1815

restoration

minister Beginning The End
Louis Pierre Édouard Bignon June 22, 1815 July 7, 1815
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord July 9, 1815 September 26, 1815
Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de Richelieu September 26, 1815 December 29, 1818
Jean Joseph Paul Augustin Dessoles December 29, 1818 November 19, 1819
Étienne-Denis Pasquier November 19, 1819 December 14, 1821
Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval December 14, 1821 December 28, 1822
François-René de Chateaubriand December 28, 1822 4th August 1824
Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas 4th August 1824 January 4, 1828
Pierre-Louis-Auguste Ferron January 4, 1828 April 24, 1829
Anne Adrien Pierre de Montmorency-Laval April 24, 1829 May 14, 1829
Joseph-Marie Portalis May 14, 1829 August 8, 1829
Jules de Polignac August 8, 1829 July 29, 1830
Victor-Louis-Victurnien de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart July 29, 1830 July 29, 1830
Louis Pierre Édouard Bignon July 31, 1830 August 1, 1830
Jean-Baptiste de Jourdan August 1, 1830 August 11, 1830

July Monarchy

minister Beginning The End
Louis-Mathieu Molé August 11, 1830 November 2, 1830
Nicolas-Joseph Maison November 2, 1830 November 17, 1830
Horace-François Sébastiani November 17, 1830 October 11, 1832
Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie October 11, 1832 April 4, 1834
Henri Gauthier de Rigny April 4, 1834 November 10, 1834
Charles-Joseph Bresson November 10, 1834 November 18, 1834
Henri Gauthier de Rigny November 18, 1834 March 12, 1835
Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie March 12, 1835 February 22, 1836
Adolphe Thiers February 22, 1836 September 6, 1836
Louis-Mathieu Molé September 6, 1836 March 31, 1839
Louis Napoléon Lannes March 31, 1839 May 12, 1839
Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult May 12, 1839 March 1, 1840
Adolphe Thiers March 1, 1840 October 29, 1840
François Guizot October 29, 1840 February 23, 1848

Second republic

minister Beginning The End
Alphonse de Lamartine February 24, 1848 May 11, 1848
Jules Bastide May 11, 1848 June 29, 1848
Marie-Alphonse Bedeau June 29, 1848 July 17, 1848
Jules Bastide July 17, 1848 December 20, 1848
Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys December 20, 1848 June 2, 1849
Alexis de Tocqueville June 2, 1849 October 31, 1849
Alphonse de Rayneval October 31, 1849 November 17, 1849
Jean Ernest Ducos de Lahitte November 17, 1849 January 9, 1851
Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys January 9, 1851 January 24, 1851
Anatole Brénier de Renaudière January 24, 1851 April 10, 1851
Jules Baroche April 10, 1851 October 26, 1851
Louis Félix Etienne, marquis de Turgot October 26, 1851 July 28, 1852

Second empire

minister Beginning The End
Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys July 28, 1852 May 7, 1855
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski May 7, 1855 January 4, 1860
Jules Baroche January 4, 1860 January 24, 1860
Edouard Thouvenel January 24, 1860 October 15, 1862
Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys October 15, 1862 September 1, 1866
Charles de La Valette September 1, 1866 October 2, 1866
Lionel de Moustier October 2, 1866 December 17, 1868
Charles de La Valette December 17, 1868 July 17, 1869
Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne July 17, 1869 January 2, 1870
Napoleon Daru January 2, 1870 April 14, 1870
Émile Ollivier April 14, 1870 May 15, 1870
Antoine Alfred Agénor de Gramont May 15, 1870 August 10, 1870
Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne August 10, 1870 September 4, 1870

Third Republic

minister Beginning The End
Jules Favre September 4, 1870 August 2, 1871
Charles de Rémusat August 2, 1871 May 25, 1873
Albert de Broglie May 25, 1873 November 26, 1873
Louis Decazes November 29, 1873 November 23, 1877
Gaston de Banneville November 23, 1877 December 13, 1877
William Henry Waddington December 13, 1877 December 28, 1879
Charles de Freycinet December 28, 1879 September 23, 1880
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire September 23, 1880 November 14, 1881
Léon Gambetta November 14, 1881 January 30, 1882
Charles de Freycinet January 30, 1882 August 7, 1882
Charles Duclerc August 7, 1882 January 29, 1883
Armand Fallières January 29, 1883 February 21, 1883
Paul Challemel-Lacour February 21, 1883 November 20, 1883
Jules Ferry November 20, 1883 April 6, 1885
Charles de Freycinet April 6, 1885 December 11, 1886
Émile Flourens December 11, 1886 April 3, 1888
René Goblet April 3, 1888 February 22, 1889
Eugène Spuller February 22, 1889 March 17, 1890
Alexandre Ribot March 17, 1890 January 11, 1893
Jules Develle January 11, 1893 December 3, 1893
Jean Casimir-Perier December 3, 1893 May 30, 1894
Gabriel Hanotaux May 30, 1894 November 1, 1895
Marcellin Berthelot November 1, 1895 March 28, 1896
Léon Bourgeois March 28, 1896 April 29, 1896
Gabriel Hanotaux April 29, 1896 June 28, 1898
Théophile Delcassé June 28, 1898 June 6, 1905
Maurice Rouvier June 6, 1905 March 13, 1906
Léon Bourgeois March 14, 1906 October 25, 1906
Stéphen Pichon October 25, 1906 March 2, 1911
Jean Cruppi March 2, 1911 June 27, 1911
Justin de Selves June 27, 1911 January 9, 1912
Raymond Poincaré January 14, 1912 January 22, 1913
Charles Jonnart January 22, 1913 March 22, 1913
Stéphen Pichon March 22, 1913 December 9, 1913
Gaston Doumergue December 9, 1913 June 9, 1914
Léon Bourgeois June 9, 1914 June 13, 1914
René Viviani June 13, 1914 August 3, 1914
Gaston Doumergue August 3, 1914 August 26, 1914
Théophile Delcassé August 26, 1914 October 13, 1915
René Viviani October 13, 1915 October 29, 1915
Aristide Briand October 29, 1915 March 20, 1917
Alexandre Ribot March 20, 1917 October 23, 1917
Louis Barthou October 23, 1917 November 16, 1917
Stéphen Pichon November 16, 1917 January 20, 1920
Alexandre Millerand January 20, 1920 September 24, 1920
Georges Leygues September 24, 1920 January 16, 1921
Aristide Briand January 16, 1921 January 15, 1922
Raymond Poincaré January 15, 1922 June 9, 1924
Edmond Lefebvre du Prey June 9, 1924 June 14, 1924
Edouard Herriot June 14, 1924 April 17, 1925
Aristide Briand April 17, 1925 July 19, 1926
Edouard Herriot July 19, 1926 July 23, 1926
Aristide Briand July 23, 1926 January 14, 1932
Pierre Laval January 14, 1932 February 20, 1932
André Tardieu February 20, 1932 June 3, 1932
Edouard Herriot June 3, 1932 December 18, 1932
Joseph Paul-Boncour December 18, 1932 January 30, 1934
Edouard Daladier January 30, 1934 February 9, 1934
Louis Barthou February 9, 1934 October 9, 1934
Pierre Laval October 13, 1934 January 24, 1936
Pierre-Etienne Flandin January 24, 1936 June 4, 1936
Yvon Delbos June 4, 1936 March 13, 1938
Joseph Paul-Boncour March 13, 1938 April 10, 1938
Georges Bonnet April 10, 1938 September 13, 1939
Edouard Daladier September 13, 1939 March 21, 1940
Paul Reynaud March 21, 1940 May 18, 1940
Edouard Daladier May 18, 1940 June 5, 1940
Paul Reynaud June 5, 1940 June 16, 1940
Paul Baudouin June 16, 1940 October 28, 1940
Pierre Laval October 28, 1940 December 13, 1940
Pierre-Etienne Flandin December 13, 1940 February 9, 1941
François Darlan February 10, 1941 April 18, 1942
Pierre Laval April 18, 1942 August 20, 1944
Free commissioners
Maurice Dejean September 24, 1941 October 17, 1942
René Pleven October 17, 1942 February 5, 1943
René Massigli February 5, 1943 September 10, 1944

Fourth republic

minister Beginning The End
Georges Bidault September 10, 1944 December 16, 1946
Léon Blum December 16, 1946 January 22, 1947
Georges Bidault January 22, 1947 July 26, 1948
Robert Schuman July 26, 1948 January 8, 1953
Georges Bidault January 8, 1953 June 19, 1954
Pierre Mendès France June 19, 1954 January 20, 1955
Edgar Faure January 20, 1955 February 23, 1955
Antoine Pinay February 23, 1955 February 1, 1956
Christian Pineau February 1, 1956 May 14, 1958
René Pleven May 14, 1958 June 1, 1958

Fifth Republic

minister Beginning The End
Maurice Couve de Murville June 1, 1958 May 30, 1968
Michel Debre May 30, 1968 June 22, 1969
Maurice Schumann June 22, 1969 March 15, 1973
André Bettencourt March 15, 1973 April 4th 1973
Michel Jobert April 4th 1973 May 28, 1974
Jean Sauvagnargues May 28, 1974 August 27, 1976
Louis de Guiringaud August 27, 1976 November 29, 1978
Jean François-Poncet November 29, 1978 May 22, 1981
Claude Cheysson May 22, 1981 7th December 1984
Roland Dumas 7th December 1984 March 20, 1986
Jean-Bernard Raimond March 20, 1986 May 12, 1988
Roland Dumas May 12, 1988 March 29, 1993
Alain Juppé March 29, 1993 May 18, 1995
Hervé de Charette May 18, 1995 June 4th 1997
Hubert Védrine June 4th 1997 May 7, 2002
Dominique de Villepin May 7, 2002 March 31, 2004
Michel Barnier March 31, 2004 June 2, 2005
Philippe Douste-Blazy June 2, 2005 May 18, 2007
Bernard Kouchner May 18, 2007 November 14, 2010
Michèle Alliot-Marie November 14, 2010 February 27, 2011
Alain Juppé February 27, 2011 May 15, 2012
Laurent Fabius May 16, 2012 February 11, 2016
Jean-Marc Ayrault February 11, 2016 17th May 2017
Jean-Yves Le Drian 17th May 2017

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