LIST OF NAVAL MINISTERS OF FRANCE

One of ancien régime France's 'Secretaries of State' was entrusted with control of the French Navy (Secretary of State of the Navy (France). In 1791, this title was changed to 'Minister of Marine'. Before the 1890s, this position also usually had responsibility for France's colonies, and was usually known as 'Minister of Marine and Colonies'.

Contents
Secretaries of State for the Navy, 1683-1790
Ministers of Marine and the Colonies, 1790-1893
Ministers of Marine, 1893-1947

Secretaries of State for the Navy, 1683-1790


'Secretary''Began''Ended'
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de SeignelaySeptember 16833 November 1690
Louis Phélypeaux, comte de PontchartrainNovember 1683?
Jérôme Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain6 September 16991 October 1715
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse and Victor Marie d'Estrées (Presidents of the Council of Marine)1 October 171524 September 1718
Joseph Jean Baptiste Fleuriau d'Armenonville24 September 171828 February 1722
Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de Morville28 February 172216 August 1723
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas16 August 172323 April 1749
Antoine Louis Rouillé30 April 174924 July 1754
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnovuille24 July 17541 February 1757
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras1 February 175731 May 1758
Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac31 May 175831 October 1758
Nicolas René Berryer31 October 175813 October 1761
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul13 October 176110 April 1766
César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny, duc de Praslin10 April 176624 December 1770
Joseph Marie Terray24 December 17709 April 1771
Pierre Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes9 April 177120 July 1774
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot20 July 177424 August 1774
Antoine de Sartine24 August 177413 October 1780
Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries13 October 178024 August 1787
Armand Marc, comte de Montmorin Saint-Hérem25 August 178724 December 1787
César Henri, comte de La Luzerne24 December 178713 July 1789
Arnaud de Laporte13 July 178916 July 1789
César Henri, comte de La Luzerne16 July 178926 October 1790

Ministers of Marine and the Colonies, 1790-1893


'Minister''Began''Ended'
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleuriau26 October 179017 May 1791
Antoine Jean Marie Thévenard17 May 179118 September 1791
Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart18 September 17917 October 1791
Antoine François, comte Bertrand de Molleville7 October 179116 March 1792
Jean de Lacoste16 March 179221 July 1792
François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage21 July 179210 August 1792
Gaspard Monge10 August 179210 April 1793
Jean Dalbarade (commissioner from 20 April 1794)10 April 17932 July 1795
Jean-Claude Redon de Beaupréau (commissioner)2 July 17954 November 1795
Laurent Jean François Truguet4 November 179515 July 1797
Georges René Le Peley de Pléville15 July 179727 April 1798
Eustache Bruix27 April 17984 March 1799
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord7 March 17992 July 1799
Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry2 July 179922 November 1799
Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait22 November 17993 October 1801
Denis Decrès3 October 18011 April 1814
Pierre-Victor, baron Malouet3 April 18147 September 1814
Jacques, comte Beugnot7 September 181420 March 1815
Denis, duc Decrès20 March 18157 July 1815
François Arnail, comte de Jaucourt9 July 181526 September 1815
François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage26 September 181523 June 1817
Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr23 June 181712 September 1817
Mathieu Louis, comte Molé12 September 181729 December 1818
Pierre Barthélemy, baron Portal29 December 181814 December 1821
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre14 December 18214 August 1824
Christophe, comte de Chabrol de Crouzol4 August 18243 March 1828
Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville3 March 18288 August 1829
Henri Gauthier, comte de Rigny8 August 182923 August 1829
Charles Lemercier de Longpré, baron d'Haussez23 August 182931 July 1830
Henri Gauthier, comte de Rigny31 July 183011 August 1830
Horace François Bastien, baron Sébastiani11 August 183017 November 1830
Antoine, comte d'Argout17 November 183013 March 1831
Henri Gauthier, comte de Rigny13 March 18314 April 1834
Albin Reine, baron Roussin4 April 183419 May 1834
Louis Léon, comte Jacob19 May 183410 November 1834
Charles, baron Dupin10 November 183418 November 1834
Victor Guy, baron Duperré18 November 18346 September 1836
Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel6 September 183631 March 1839
Jean Marguerite Tupinier31 March 183912 May 1839
Victor Guy, baron Duperré12 May 18391 March 1840
Albin Reine, baron Roussin1 March 184029 October 1840
Victor Guy, baron Duperré29 October 18407 February 1843
Albin Reine, baron Roussin7 February 184324 July 1843
Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau24 July 18439 May 1847
Napoléon Auguste Lannes, duc de Montebello9 May 184724 February 1848
François Arago24 February 184811 May 1848
Joseph Grégoire Cazy11 May 184828 June 1848
Jules Bastide28 June 184817 July 1848
Raymond Verninac de Saint-Maur17 July 184820 December 1848
Alexandre César Victor Charles Destutt de Tracy20 December 184831 October 1849
Joseph Romain-Desfossés31 October 18499 January 1851
Théodore Ducos9 January 185124 January 1851
Auguste Nicolas Vaillant24 January 185110 April 1851
Justin de Chasseloup-Laubat10 April 185126 October 1851
Hippolyte Fortoul26 October 18513 December 1851
Théodore Ducos3 December 185117 April 1855
Ferdinand Hamelin19 April 185524 November 1860
Justin de Chasseloup-Laubat24 November 186020 January 1867
Charles Rigault de Genouilly20 January 18674 September 1870
Maurice Fourichon
Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau
Charles Dompierre d'Hormoy
Louis Raymond de Montaignac de Chauvance
Martin Fourichon
Albert Gicquel des Touches
Albert Roussin
Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry
Georges Charles Cloué
Auguste Gougeard (Marine only)
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry
François de Mahy
Charles Brun
Alexandre Louis François Peyron
Charles Eugène Galiber
Théophile Aube
Édouard Barbey
François de Mahy
Jules François Émile Krantz
Benjamin Jaurès
Jules François Émile Krantz (Marine only)
Édouard Barbey (Marine only)
Godefroy Cavaignac (Marine only to 8 March 1892)
Auguste Burdeau

Ministers of Marine, 1893-1947


'Minister''Began''Ended'
Adrien Barthélemy Louis Henri Rieunier
Auguste Alfred Lefèvre
Félix Faure
Armand Louis Charles Gustave Besnard
Édouard Locroy
Armand Louis Charles Gustave Besnard
Édouard Locroy
Jean-Marie de Lanessan
Charles Camille Pelletan7 June 190224 January 1905
Gaston Thomson
Alfred Picard
Auguste Boué de Lapeyrère
Théophile Delcassé
Pierre Baudin
Ernest Monis
Armand Gauthier de l'Aude
Émile Chautemps
Armand Gauthier de l'Aude
Victor Augagneur
Lucien LacazeOctober 19151917
Charles Chaumet
Georges Leygues
Adolphe Landry
Gabriel Guist'hau
Flaminius Raiberti
Maurice Bokanowski
Désiré Ferry
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
Émile Borel
Georges Leygues
René Renoult
Georges Leygues
Albert Sarraut
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
Albert Sarraut
Charles Dumont
Georges Leygues
Albert Sarraut
Louis de Chappedelaine
François Piétri
Alphonse Gasnier-Duparc
César Campinchi
William Bertrand
César Campinchi
François Darlan
Gabriel Auphan18 November 1942
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
Henri Bléhaut
Louis Jacquinot


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