List of General Secretaries of the Elysée Palace

The Élysée Palace , seat of the French President

Various ministerial officials served as heads of administration ( general secretaries ) of the Élysée Palace , i.e. the authority of the French President , from 1912 . Two of them were then Prime Ministers: Balladur (1993 to 1995) and de Villepin (2005 to 2007).

Secretary General	president	Period
Henri Collignon	Armand Fallières	1912-1913
Félix Decori	Raymond Poincaré	1913-1915
Olivier Sainsère		1915-1920
vacant	Paul Deschanel	1920-1920
vacant	Alexandre Millerand	1920-1924
vacant	Gaston Doumergue	1924-1931
Georges Huisman	Paul Doumer	1931-1932
vacant	Albert Lebrun	1932-1940
Jean Forgeot	Vincent Auriol	1947-1954
Charles Merveilleux du Vignaux	René Coty	1954-1959
Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel	Charles de Gaulle	1959-1962
Étienne Burin des Roziers		1962-1967
Bernard Tricot		1967-1969
Bernard Beck	acting under Alain Poher	1969
Michel Jobert	Georges Pompidou	1969-1973
Édouard Balladur		1973-1974
Bernard Beck	acting under Alain Poher	1974
Claude Pierre-Brossolette	Valery Giscard d'Estaing	1974-1976
Jean François-Poncet		1976-1988
Jacques choice		1978-1981
Pierre Bérégovoy	François Mitterrand	1981-1982
Jean-Louis Bianco		1982-1991
Hubert Védrine		1991-1995
Dominique de Villepin	Jacques Chirac	1995-2002
Philippe Bas		2002-2005
Frédéric Salat-Baroux		2005-2007
Claude Guéant	Nicolas Sarkozy	2007-2011
Xavier Musca		2011–2012
Pierre-René Lemas	François Hollande	2012-2014
Jean-Pierre Jouyet		2014–