FRANCE 1870 - 1940 : MINISTERS PART III
Ministers of Economic and Social Affairs
Ministers of National Economy
Ministres à l'Economie nationale
1930 - 1931 Louis Loucheur, also Minister of
Commerce and Industry 1872 - 1931
1931 - 1936 none
Under Secretaries of State of National Economy (at the Presidency
of the Council
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Economie nationale)
1930 André François-Poncet 1887 - 1978
1930 - 1931 none
1931 André François-Poncet (2x)
1931 - 1932 Charles Joseph Gignoux
1932 none
1932 - 1933 Raymond Patenôtre 1900 - 1951
1933 Maxence Bernard Pierre Émile
Bibié 1891 - 1950
1933 - 1934 Raymond Patenôtre (2x) (also
for Tourism)
1934 - 1940 none
1936 - 1937 Charles Marie André Spinasse 1893 - 1979
1937 - 1938 none
1938 - 1939 Raymond Patenôtre s.a.
1939 - 1940 none
Under Secretary of State for National Economy (at the Ministry of
Finances)
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à l'Economie nationale)
1940 René Hachette
Ministers in charge of Public Works
Ministers of Public Works
(Ministres aux Travaux publics)
[(Pt) = Ministers of Public Works, Posts and Telegraphs (Ministres aux Travaux
publics, aux Postes et Télégraphes) 1906 - 1913]
1870 - 1871 Pierre Frédéric Dorian 1814 - 1873
1871 - 1872 Charles Paulian Roger de Saubert,
Baron de Larcy 1805 - 1882
1872 - 1873 Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou 1836 - 1897
1873 René Bérenger 1830 - 1915
1873 Alfred Pierrot-Deseilligny 1828 - 1875
1873 - 1874 Charles Paulian Roger de Saubert,
Baron de Larcy (2x)
1874 - 1876 Alexandre Eugène Caillaux 1822 - 1896
1876 - 1877 Albert Christophe 1830 - 1904
1877 Auguste Joseph Paris 1826 - 1896
1877 Michel Graëff 1812 - 1884
1877 - 1879 Charles Louis Saulces de Freycinet 1828 - 1923
1879 - 1880 Henri Auguste Varroy 1826 - 1883
1880 - 1881 Marie François Sadi Carnot 1837 - 1894
1881 - 1882 David Raynal 1840 - 1903
1882 Henri Auguste Varroy (2x)
1882 Pierre Legrand* 1834 - 1895
1882 - 1883 Anne Charles Hérisson 1831 - 1893
1883 - 1885 David Raynal (2x)
1885 Marie François Sadi Carnot (2x)
1885 - 1886 Charles Étienne Émile Demôle 1828 - 1908
1886 Charles Baïhaut 1835 - 1917
1886 - 1887 Édouard Millaud 1834 - 1912
1887 Severiano de Hérédia 1836 - 1901
1887 - 1888 François Émile Loubet 1838 - 1929
1888 - 1889 Pierre Deluns-Montaud 1845 - 1907
1889 - 1892 Yves Guyot 1843 - 1928
1892 - 1893 Jules François Viette 1843 - 1894
1893 - 1894 Camille Célestin Charles Jonnart 1857 - 1927
1894 - 1895 Louis Barthou 1862 - 1934
1895 Ludovic Dupuy-Dutemps 1847 - 1938
1895 - 1896 Jean François Edmond Guyot-Dessaigne 1833 - 1907
1896 - 1898 Adolphe Jean Eugène Turrel 1856 - 1945
1898 Louis Charles Tillaye 1847 - 1913
1898 Jules Godin 1844 - 1925
1898 - 1899 VAdm. Charles Camille Julien Krantz 1848 - 1924
1899 Clément Jean Monestier 1855 - 1925
1899 - 1902 Pierre Baudin 1863 - 1917
1902 - 1905 Pierre Adolphe Émile Maréjouls 1837 - 1908
1905 - 1906 Armand Gauthier de l'Aude 1856 - 1926
1906 - 1909 Louis Barthou (Pt) s.a.
1909 - 1910 Étienne Alexandre Millerand (Pt) 1859 - 1943
1910 - 1911 Jean Louis Puech (Pt) 1851 - 1947
1911 Charles Émile Étuenne Dumont (Pt) 1867 - 1939
1911 - 1912 Victor Augagneur (Pt) 1855 - 1931
1912 - 1913 Jean Dupuy (Pt) 1944 - 1919
1913 Joseph Thierry 1857 - 1918
1913 - 1914 Fernand David 1869 - 1935
1914 Jean Dupuy s.a.
1914 René Renoult 1867 - 1946
1914 - 1916 Marcel Sembat 1862 - 1922
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1879 - 1880 Marie François Sadi Carnot s.a.
1880 - 1881 David Raynal s.a.
1881 - 1882 Désiré Jules Lesguillier 1825 - 1889
1882 René Armand Rousseau 1835 - 1896
1882 - 1885 Charles Baïhaut s.a.
1885 René Célestin Alfred Hérault 1837 - 1926
1885 - 1916 none
Under Secretaries of State of Posts and Telegraphs
1906 - 1913 See below
Ministers of Public Works and Transports
(Ministres aux Travaux publics et aux Transports)
1916 - 1917 Édouard Hérriot, also Minister of
Supply, also in charge of the Merchant
Marine 1872 - 1957
1917 Georges Maurice Dominique Desplas,
also in charge of the Merchant Marine 1856 - 1922
1917 - 1920 Albert Claveille, in 1919 - 1920
also Minister of the Merchant Marine 1865 - 1921
Under Secretaries of State of the Merchant Marine and of Maritime
Transports
1916 - 1917 See below
Under Secretary of State of Transports
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Transports)
1916 - 1917 Albert Claveille s.a.
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1918 - 1920 Jules Cels-Couybes 1885 - 1938
Ministers of Public Works
(Ministres aux Travaux publics)
1920 - 1924 Yves Le Trocquer, also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones and of Ports,
the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. In 1924
also Minister of Ports and the Merchant
Marine 1877 - 1938
1924 - 1925 Victor Louis Peytral
"Victor-Peytral" 1874 - 1964
1925 Pierre Laval, also in charge of Ports,
the Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1883 - 1945
1925 - 1926 Anatole de Monzie, also in charge of Ports,
the Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1876 - 1947
1926 Charles Augustin Daniel-Vincent, also in
charge of Ports, the Merchant Marine and
Fisheries 1874 - 1960
1926 Orly André Hesse, also in charge of Ports,
the Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1874 - 1940
1926 - 1928 André Tardieu 1876 - 1945
1928 - 1929 Pierre Forgeot 1888 - 1956
1929 - 1930 Georges Pernot 1879 - 1962
1930 Édouard Daladier 1884 - 1970
1930 Georges Pernot (2x)
1930 - 1931 Édouard Daladier (2x)
1931 - 1932 Maurice Charles Désiré Deligne 1861 - 1939
1932 Charles Joseph Eugène Marie
Guernier, also Minister of
the Merchant Marine 1870 - 1943
1932 Édouard Daladier (3x)
1932 - 1933 Georges Étienne Bonnet 1889 - 1973
1933 - 1934 Joseph Paganon 1880 - 1937
1934 Pierre Étienne Flandin 1889 - 1958
1934 - 1935 Henri Roy 1873 - 1950
1935 Joseph Paganon (2x)
1935 - 1936 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac" 1886 - 1970
1936 Camille Chautemps 1885 - 1963
1936 - 1937 Albert Bedouce, also in charge of the
Merchant Marine 1869 - 1947
1937 - 1938 Henri Queuille, also in charge of the
Merchant Marine 1884 - 1970
1938 Jules Moch, also in charge of the Merchant
Marine 1893 - 1985
1938 Ludovic Oscar Frossard 1889 - 1946
1938 - 1940 Anatole de Monzie (2x)
1940 Ludovic Oscar Frosard (2x), also
Minister of Transmissions
Under Secretary of State of Mines and Hydraulic Powers
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Mines et Forces hydrauliques)
1920 - 1921 Antoine Borrel 1878 - 1961
Under Secretaries of State of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones
1920 - 1924 See below
Under Secretaries of State of Aeronautics and Air Transports
1920 - 1924
and
1924 - 1926 See here
Under Secretaries of State of Ports, Merchant Marine and Fisheries
1920 - 1924
and
1925 - 1926 See below
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1929 - 1930 André Mallarmé 1877 - 1956
1930 Étienne Chablot
1930 Henri Falcoz 1884 - 1936
1930 - 1932 none
1932 -Gaston Gérard 1878 - 1969
-Charles Péchin 1871 - 1949
1932 - 1936 none
1936 Pierre Mazé 1893 - 1946
1936 - 1938 none
1938 Alexis Jaubert 1879 - 1961
1938 - 1940 none
1940 Fabien Joseph Albertin 1879 - 1950
1940 none
1940 André Février 1885 - 1961
1940 none
Under Secretary of State of Public Works and Tourism
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Travaux publics et au Tourisme)
1930 - 1931 Gaston Gourdeau 1883 - 1957
1931 - 1932 Gaston Gérard s.a.
Under Secretary of State of Public Works
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Travaux publics
1932 Alfred Margaine
1932 - 1937 none
1937 - 1938 Paul Ramadier 1888 - 1961
Under Secretary of State of Tourism
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Tourisme)
1932 Gaston Gourdeau s.a.
1932 - 1933 none
1933 Pierre Hubert Alexandre Appell 1887 - 1957
Under Secretary of State of Mines, Electricity and Liquid Fuels
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Mines, à l'Electricité et aux
Combustibles liquides)
1936 - 1937 Paul Ramadier s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Merchant Marine
1936 - 1938 See below
Ministers in charge of Agriculture, Supply, Commerce and Industry
Ministers of Agriculture and of Commerce
(Ministres à l'Agriculture et au Commerce)
1870 - 1871 Pierre Joseph Magnin 1824 - 1910
1871 Félix Edmond Hyacinthe Lambrecht 1819 - 1871
1871 - 1872 Victor Lefranc 1809 - 1883
1872 Marie Thomas Eugène de Goulard 1808 - 1874
1872 - 1873 Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort 1814 - 1892
1873 Marie Joseph Roullet de la Bouillerie 1822 - 1894
1873 - 1874 Alfred Pierrot-Deseilligny s.a.
1874 - 1875 Louis Grivart 1839 - 1901
1875 - 1876 Camille Marie Alfred, Vicomte de Meaux 1830 - 1907
1876 - 1877 Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (2x)
1877 Camille Marie Alfred, Vicomte de Meaux (2x)
1877 Jules Antoine Ste Marie Ozenne 1809 - 1889
1877 - 1879 Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (3x)
1879 Edme Charles Philippe Lepère 1823 - 1885
1879 - 1881 Pierre Emmanuel Tirard 1827 - 1893
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1877 - 1881 Cyprien Jean-Jacques Girard 1832 - 1916
1881 : Ministry of Agriculture and of Commerce divided into :
- the Ministry of Agriculture
- the Ministry of Commerce, renamed Commerce and Industry in 1886.
1916 : Ministry of Supply established (briefly renamed General Supply in 1917)
1920 : Ministry of Supply abolished. What remained of its tasks was taken over by
an Under Secretariat at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (s.b.)
1940 : Ministry of Supply briefly re-established
Ministers of Agriculture
(Ministres à l'Agriculture)
1881 - 1882 Pierre Paul Devès 1837 - 1909
1882 - 1883 François de Mahy 1830 - 1906
1883 - 1885 Félix Jules Méline 1838 - 1925
1885 Charles François Hervé Mangon 1821 - 1898
1885 - 1886 Pierre Auguste Hippolyte Gomot 1838 - 1927
1882 - 1887 Jules Paul Develle 1845 - 1919
1887 François Paul Barbé 1836 - 1890
1887 - 1889 Jules François Viette s.a.
1889 - 1890 Étienne Léopold Faye 1828 - 1900
1890 - 1893 Jules Paul Develle (2x)
1893 - 1895 Albert Viger 1843 - 1926
1895 Antoine Elie Gadaud 1841 - 1897
1895 - 1896 Albert Viger (2x)
1896 - 1898 Félix Jules Méline (2x)
1898 - 1899 Albert Viger (3x)
1899 - 1902 Jean Dupuy s.a.
1902 - 1905 Léon Gabriel Mougeot 1858 - 1929
1905 - 1910 Joseph Ruau 1865 - 1925
1910 - 1911 Maurice Raynaud 1860 - 1927
1911 - 1913 Jules Pams 1852 - 1930
1913 Fernand David s.a.
1913 Étienne Clémentel 1864 - 1936
1913 - 1914 Maurice Raynaud (2x)
1914 Adrien Louis Dariac 1868 - 1949
1914 - 1915 Fernand David (2x)
1915 - 1916 Félix Jules Méline (3x)
1916 - 1917 Étienne Clémentel (2x), also Minister
of Commerce, Industry, Posts and
Telegraphs and of Labour
1917 Fernand David (3x)
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1881 - 1882 Edmond Marie Justin Caze 1839 - 1907
Minister of Supply
(Ministre au Ravitaillement)
1916 - 1917 Édouard Hérriot, also Minister
of Public Works and Transports s.a.
Ministers of General Supply
(Ministres au Ravitaillement général)
1917 Maurice Violette, also Minister
of Maritime Transports 1870 - 1960
1917 Maurice Long 1866 - 1923
Ministers of Agriculture and Supply
(Ministres à l'Agriculture et au Ravitaillement)
1917 - 1919 Victor Boret 1872 - 1952
1919 - 1920 Joseph Noulens 1864 - 1944
Under Secretary of State of Supply
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Ravitaillement)
1917 - 1920 Ernest Vilgrain
Ministers of Agriculture
(Ministres à l'Agriculture)
1920 - 1921 José Honoré Ricard 1880 - 1948
1921 - 1922 Edmond Lefebvre du Prey 1866 - 1955
1922 - 1924 Henri Chéron 1867 - 1947
1924 Joseph Marie Capus 1867 - 1947
1924 - 1925 Henri Queuille s.a.
1925 - 1926 Jean Durand 1865 - 1935
1926 François Binet 1880 - 1930
1926 - 1928 Henri Queuille (2x)
1928 - 1930 Jean Patrick Hennessy 1874 - 1944
1930 Henri Queuille (3x)
1930 Fernand David (4x)
1930 - 1931 Victor Boret (2x)
1931 - 1932 André Tardieu s.a.
1932 Achille Armand Fould 1890 - 1969
1932 Claude Chauveau 1861 - 1940
1932 Abel Gardey 1882 - 1957
1932 - 1934 Henri Queuille (4x)
1934 - 1935 Émile Cassez 1871 - 1948
1935 Paul Maurice Jacquier 1879 - 1961
1935 - 1936 Pierre Cathala 1888 - 1947
1936 Paul Thellier 1899 - 1944
1936 - 1938 Georges Monnet 1898 - 1980
1938 Fernand Chapsal 1862 - 1939
1938 Georges Monnet (2x)
1938 - 1940 Henri Queueile (5x)
1940 Paule Thellier (2x)
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1920 - 1921 Henri Queuille s.a.
1921 - 1922 Auguste Puis 1873 - 1950
1922 - 1929 none
1929 - 1930 Robert Sérot 1885 - 1953
1930 Louis Marie Michel, Vicomte de
Chappedelaine 1876 - 1939
1930 Robert Sérot (2x)
1930 Camille Cautru 1879 - 1969
1930 - 1931 Étienne Charlot 1865 - 1946
1931 - 1932 Achille Armand Fould s.a.
1932 none
1932 - 1933 Alexis Jaubert s.a.
1933 - 1936 none
1936 - 1938 André Liautey
1938 - 1940 none
Minister of Supply
(Ministre au Ravitaillement)
1940 Henri Queuille s.a.
Minister of Agriculture and Supply
(Ministre à l'Agriculture et au Ravitaillement)
1940 Albert Chichery 1888 - 1944
Ministers of Commerce
(Ministres au Commerce)
[(Col) = Minister of Commerce and Colonies (Ministre au Commerce et aux Colonies)
in charge of most Oversea Dependencies 1881 - 1882]
1881 - 1882 Maurice Rouvier (Col) 1842 - 1911
1882 Pierre Emmanuel Tirard s.a.
1882 - 1883 Pierre Legrand s.a.
1883 - 1884 Anne Charles Hérisson s.a.
1884 - 1885 Maurice Rouvier (2x)
1885 Pierre Legrand (2x)
1885 - 1886 Auguste Lucien Dautresme 1826 - 1892
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1881 - 1882 François Félix Faure 1841 - 1899
Director of the Colonies
1881 - 1882 See below
Ministers of Commerce and Industry
(Ministres au Commerce et à l'Industrie)
[(Col) = Ministers of Commerce, Industry and Colonies (Ministres au Commerce, à L'
Industrie et aux Colonies) also in charge of most Oversea Dependencies 1889 - 1892
and 1893 - 1894]
[(Pt) = Ministers of Commerce, Industry, Post and Telegraphs (Ministres au Commerce,
à l'Industrie, aux Postes et Télégraphes) 1894 - 1906, 1913 - 1920, 1924 and 1928]
1886 - 1887 Édouard Étienne Antoine Simon "Lockroy" 1840 - 1913
1887 - 1888 Auguste Lucien Dautresme s.a.
1888 - 1889 Pierre Legrand s.a.
1889 - 1890 Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (Col) s.a.
1890 - 1892 Jules Roche (Col) 1841 - 1923
1892 - 1893 Jules Siegfried (Col since 1893) 1857 - 1922
1893 Louis Jean Jacques Terrier (Col) 1854 - 1895
1893 - 1894 Jean Antoine Marty (Col, then Pt
in 1894) 1838 - 1916
1894 - 1895 Victor Christophe Gabriel Lourties (Pt) 1844 - 1922
1895 André Lebon (Pt) 1858 - 1938
1895 - 1896 Gustave Mesurier (Pt) 1847 - 1925
1896 - 1898 Henri Boucher (Pt) 1847 - 1927
1898 Pierre Adolphe Émile Maruéjouls (Pt) 1838 - 1908
1898 - 1899 Paul Delombre (Pt) 1848 - 1933
1899 - 1902 Étienne Alexandre Millerand (Pt) s.a.
1902 - 1905 Georges Trouillot (Pt) 1851 - 1916
1905 Fernand Dubief (Pt) 1850 - 1916
1905 - 1906 Georges Trouillot (Pt) (2x)
1906 - 1908 Gaston Doumergue, also Minister of
Labour in 1906 1863 - 1937
1908 - 1909 Jean Cruppi 1855 - 1933
1909 - 1911 Jean Dupuy s.a.
1911 Alfred Massé 1870 - 1951
1911 - 1912 Charles Maurice Couyba 1866 - 1931
1912 - 1913 Fernand David s.a.
1913 Gabriel Henri Guist'hau 1863 - 1931
1913 Alfred Massé (Pt) (2x) s.a.
1913 - 1914 Louis Malvy (Pt) 1875 - 1949
1914 Raoul Péret (Pt) 1870 - 1942
1914 Marc Réville (Pt) 1863 - 1920
1914 - 1915 Gaston Thomson (Pt) 1848 - 1932
1915 - 1919 Étienne Clémentel (Pt),
also Minister of Agriculture and of
Labour 1916 - 1917, also in charge of
the Merchant Marine and Maritime
Transports 1917, also Minister of the
Merchant Marine and Maritima Transports
1917 - 1919 s.a.
1919 - 1920 Louis Dubois (Pt) 1859 - 1946
1920 - 1921 Auguste Isaac 1849 - 1938
1921 - 1924 Lucien Dior 1867 - 1932
1924 Louis Loucheur (Pt) 1872 - 1931
1924 Pierre Étienne Flandin (Pt) s.a.
1924 - 1925 Eugène Raynaldy, also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones and of Ports,
the Merchant Marine and Fisheries 1869 - 1938
1925 Charles Chaumet, also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones 1866 - 1932
1925 - 1926 Charles Augustin Daniel-Vincent, also in
charge of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones s.a.
1926 Fernand Chapsal also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones s.a.
1926 Louis Loucheur (2x), also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones
1926 - 1928 Maurice Bokanowski, also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones 1879 - 1928
1928 Henri Chéron (Pt) s.a.
1928 - 1929 Georges Bonnefous, also in charge of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephones 1867 - 1956
1929 - 1930 Pierre Étienne Flandin s.a.
1930 Georges Étienne Bonnet s.a.
1930 Pierre Etienne Flandin (2x)
1930 - 1931 Louis Loucheur, also Minister of National
Economy s.a.
1931 - 1932 Louis Rollin 1879 - 1952
Under Secretaries of State of the Colonies
1889 - 1892
and
1893 - 1894 See below
Under Secretaries of State of Posts, Telegraphs (and Telephones)
1896 - 1906,
1917,
1919 - 1920
1924 - 1925
and
1928 - 1929 See below
Under Secretary of State of Commerce
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Commerce)
1905 - 1906 Alexandre Octave Bérard 1859 - 1923
Under Secretary of State of Commerce and Industry
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Commerce et à l'Industrie)
1917 Paul Jean Morel 1869 - 1933
Under Secretaries of State of Maritime Transports and Merchant
Marine (Ports and Fisheries)
1917 - 1918
and
1924 - 1925 See below
Under Secretary of State of Supply
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Ravitaillement)
1920 - 1921 Robert Thoumyre 1883 - 1947
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1930 Alfred Oberkirch 1876 - 1947
1930 - 1931 Léon Meyer
1931 - 1932 Charles Frey 1888 - 1955
Minister of Commerce
(Ministre au Commerce)
1932 Louis Rollin, also Minister of Posts,
Telegraphs and Telephons s.a.
Ministers of Commerce and Industry
(Ministres au Commerce et à l'Industrie
1932 - 1933 Julien Durand 1874 - 1973
1933 Louis Serre 1873 - 1939
1933 - 1934 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac" s.a.
1934 Jean Mistler 1897 - 1988
1934 Lucien Lamoureux 1888 - 1970
1934 - 1935 Paul Marchandeau 1882 - 1968
1935 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac"
(2x)
1935 - 1936 Georges Étienne Bonnet (2x)
Ministers of Commerce
(Ministres au Commerce
1936 - 1937 Paul Bastid 1892 - 1974
1937 - 1938 Fernand Chapsal (2x)
1938 Pierre Cot 1895 - 1977
1938 - 1940 Fernand Gentin 1876 - 1946
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1937 - 1938 Max Hymans
1938 Maxence Bernard Pierre Bibié s.a.
1938 Gaston Manent
1938 - 1940 none
Ministers of Commerce and Industry
(Ministres au Commerce et à l'Industrie)
1940 Louis Rollin (2x)
1940 Léon Baréty 1883 - 1971
1940 Albert Chichery s.a.
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1940 Amaury de La Grange
1940 none
Minister of Commerce
(Ministre du Commerce)
1940 Yves Bouthillier, also Minister of
Finances 1901 - 1977
Minister of Industrial Reconstruction
(Ministre de la Reconstruction industrielle)
1918 - 1920 Louis Loucheur s.a.
Ministers in charge of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephons
1879 : Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs created by the merger of the :
- General Administration of Posts at the Ministry of Finances
- Administration of Telegraphs at the Ministry of the Interior.
Ministers of Posts and Telegraphs
(Ministres aux Postes et Télégraphes)
1879 - 1885 Louis Adolphe Cochery 1819 - 1900
1885 Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien 1840 - 1915
1885 - 1887 Étienne Armand Félix Granet 1849 - 1936
1887 : Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs replaced by the General Direction of Posts
and Telegraphs, an independent agency.
Directors General of Posts and Telegraphs
(Directeurs généraux des Postes et Télégraphes)
1887 - 1889 Georges Coulon 1838 - 1912
1890 - 1894 Justin Germain Casimir de Selves 1848 - 1934
1894 : Thee General Direction of Posts and Telegraphs was abolished.
1894 - 1906 the Ministers of Commerce, Industry,
Posts and Telegraphs s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Posts and Telegraphs
(Sous-Secrétaires d'Etat des Postes et Télégraphes)
1894 - 1896 none
1896 - 1898 Édouard Delpeuch 1860 - 1930
1898 - 1902 Léon Gabriel Mougeot s.a.
1902 - 1906 Alexandre Octave Bérard 1859 - 1923
1906 - 1913 the Ministers of Public Works, Posts and
Telegraphs s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Posts and Telegraphs
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Postes et Télégraphes)
1906 Alexandre Octave Bérard s.a.
1906 - 1909 Jean Simyan 1820 - 1826
1909 - 1911 none
1911 - 1913 Charles Jean Charles Chaumet 1866 - 1932
1913 - 1920 the Ministers of Commerce, Industry,
Posts and Telegraphs s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Posts and Telegraphs
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Postes et Télégraphes)
1917 Paul Jean Morel 1869 - 1933
1917 - 1919 none
1919 - 1920 Louis Deschamps 1878 - 1925
1920 - 1924 the Minister of Public Works (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretaries of State for Posts, Telegraphs and Telephons
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones)
1920 - 1921 Louis Deschamps s.a.
1921 - 1924 Paul Laffont 1885 - 1944
1924 the Ministers of Commerce, Industry,
Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones s.a.
1924 - 1928 the Ministers of Commerce and Industry
(in charge) s.a.
Under Secretaries of State for Posts, Telegraphs and Telephons
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones)
1924 - 1925 Pierre Robert
1925 - 1928 none
1928 the Minister of Commerce, Industry,
Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones s.a.
1928 - 1929 the Minister of Commerce and Industry
(in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State for Posts, Telegraphs and Telephons
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones)
1928 - 1929 Louis Germain Germain-Martin 1872 - 1948
Ministers of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephons
(Ministres aux Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones)
1929 - 1930 Louis Germain Germain-Martin s.a.
1930 Julien Durand s.a.
1930 André Mallarmé s.a.
1930 - 1931 Georges Étienne Bonnet s.a.
1931 - 1932 Charles Joseph Eugène Marie
Guernier s.a.
1932 Louis Rollin, also Minister of Commerce s.a.
1932 Henri Queuille s.a.
1932 - 1933 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac" s.a.
1933 - 1934 Jean Mistler s.a.
1934 Paul Bernier 1868 - 1957
1934 André Mallarmé (2x)
1934 - 1936 Jéroboam Rotschild "Georges Mandel" 1885 - 1944
1936 - 1937 Robert Jardillier 1890 - 1945
1937 - 1938 Jean-Baptiste Lebas 1878 - 1944
1938 - 1940 Alfred Jules-Julien, in 1940 also
Minister of Transmissions 1882 - 1977
Ministers of Transmissions
(Ministres aux Transmissions)
1940 Ludovic Oscar Frosard, also
Minister of Public Works s.a.
1940 André Février s.a.
Ministers in charge of the Merchant Marine
1870 - 1916 the Ministers of the Navy (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of the Merchant Marine
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à la Marine marchande)
1913 Anatole de Monzie s.a.
1913 - 1914 Pierre Louis Maurice Ajam 1861 - 1944
1914 Charles Joseph Eugène Marie
Guernier 1870 - 1943
1914 Pierre Louis Maurice Ajam (2x)
1914 - 1915 none
1915 Georges Allyre Marie Médéric
Bureau 1870 - 1940
1915 - 1916 Louis Léon Jules Nail 1864 - 1920
1916 - 1917 the Ministers of Public Works and Transports
(in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Merchant Marine
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à la Marine marchande)
1916 - 1917 Louis Léon Jules Nail s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Merchant Marine and of Maritime
Transports
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à la Marine marchande et aux Transports
maritimes)
1917 Anatole de Monzie 1876 - 1937
Minister of Maritime Transports
(Ministre aux Transports maritimes)
1917 Maurice Violette, also Minister
of General Supply (department
degraded to the rank of an Under
Secretariat - s.a.) s.a.
1917 the Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts
and Telegraphs (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Merchant Marine and of Maritime
Transports
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à la Marine marchande et aux Transports
maritimes)
1917 Anatole de Monzie s.a.
Minister of Maritime Transports and of the Merchant Marine
(Ministre aux Transports maritimes et à la Marine marchande)
1917 - 1919 Étienne Clémentel, also Minister of
Commerce, Industry, Posts and Telegraphs s.a.
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1917 - 1919 Henri Leméry
Minister of the Mercahant Marine
(Ministre à la Marine marchande)
1919 - 1920 Albert Claveille, also Minister
of Public Works and Transports s.a.
1920 - 1924 the Ministers of Public Works (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Ports, Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Ports, à la Marine marchande et aux
Pêches)
1920 - 1921 Paul Émile Bignon 1858 - 1932
1921 - 1924 Alphonse Rio 1873 - 1949
Minister of Ports and of the Merchant Marine
(Ministre aux Ports et à la Marine marchande)
1924 Yves Le Troquer, also Minister of
Public Works s.a.
1924 - 1925 the Ministers of Commerce and Industry
(in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State of Ports, Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Ports, à la Marine marchande et aux
Pêches)
1924 - 1925 Léon Meyer 1868 - 1948
1925 - 1926 the Ministers of Public Works (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Ports, Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Ports, à la Marine marchande et aux
Pêches)
1925 - 1926 Charles Léon Claude Daniélou 1878 - 1953
1926 Mario Roustan 1860 - 1942
1926 Pierre Valude 1891 - 1930
1926 André Mallarmé s.a.
1926 - 1929 the Ministers of the Colonies (in charge) s.b.
Ministers of the Merchant Marine
(Ministres à la Marine marchande)
1929 - 1930 Louis Rollin s.a.
1930 Charles Léon Claude Daniélou s.a.
1930 Louis Rollin (2x)
1930 - 1931 Charles Léon Claude Daniélou (2x)
1931 - 1932 Louis Marie Michel, Vicomte de Chappedelaine s.a.
1932 Charles Joseph Eugène Marie
Guernier, also Minister of
Public Works s.a.
1932 - 1933 Léon Mayer s.a.
1933 Eugène Frot 1893 - 1983
1933 Jacques Léon Stern 1887 - 1949
1933 - 1934 Eugène Frot (2x)
1934 William Bertrand 1881 - 1961
1934 Guy La Chambre 1898 - 1975
1934 - 1935 William Bertrand (2x)
1935 François Piétri* 1182 - 1966
1935 Mario Roustan s.a.
1935 - 1936 William Bertrand (3x)
1936 Louis Marie Michel, Vicomte de Chappedelaine
(2x)
1936 - 1938 the Ministers of Public Works (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Mercahnt Navy
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État de la Marine marchande)
1936 - 1938 Henri Tasso 1882 - 1955
Minister of the Merchant Marine
(Ministre à la Marine marchande)
1938 Paul Elbel 1875 - 1940
1938 the Minister of Public Works (in charge) s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Mercahnt Navy
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État de la Marine marchande)
1936 - 1938 Henri Tasso (2x)
Ministers of the Merchant Marine
(Ministres à la Marine marchande)
1938 - 1939 Louis Marie Michel, Vicomte de Chappedelaine
(3x)
1939 - 1940 Alpphonse Rio s.a.
1940 FleetAdm. Jean Louis Xavier François
Darlan, also Minister of the Navy 1881 - 1942
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1938 - 1940 none
1940 Noël Pinelli 1881 -
1940 none
Miniters in charge of Labour, Social Security, Health, etc
1906 : Ministry of Labour created by the regrouping of several pre-existing offices
concerned with labour legislation and social security - the Directions of
Labour and of Insurances and Social Security at the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, the Direction of Mutual Insurance at the Ministry of the Interior
and part of the Office of Mines at the Ministry of Public Works - into one
department.
Minister of Labour
(Ministre au Travail)
1906 Gaston Doumergue, also Minister of
Commerce and Industry s.a.
Ministers of Labour and Social Security
(Ministres au Travail et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1906 - 1910 René Viviani 1863 - 1925
1910 - 1911 Antonin Baptiste Louis Lafferre 1861 - 1929
1911 Joseph Paul-Boncour 1873 - 1972
1911 - 1912 René Renoult s.a.
1912 - 1913 Léon Bourgeois 1851 - 1925
1913 René Henri Besnard 1879 - 1952
1913 Henri Chéron s.a.
1913 - 1914 Albert Métin 1871 - 1918
1914 Jean Baptiste Eugène Abel 1863 - 1921
1914 Charles Maurice Couyba s.a.
1914 - 1915 Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin 1847 - 1943
1915 - 1916 Albert Métin (2x)
Minister of Labour
(Ministre au Travail)
1916 - 1917 Étienne Clémentel, also Minister of
Commerce and Industry, Posts and
Telegraphs and of Agriculture s.a.
Under Secretary of State of Labour and Social Security
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État au Travail et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1916 - 1917 Constant Roden 1852 -
Ministers of Labour and Social Security
(Ministres au Travail et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1917 Léon Bougeois (2x)
1917 André Renard 1860 - 1944
1917 - 1919 Pierre Colliard 1852 - 1925
1919 - 1920 Paul Léon Jourdain 1878 - 1948
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1917 Constant Roden s.a.
1920 : Creation of a Ministry of Hygiene, Assistance and Social Security out of
the hygiene offices of the Ministry of the Interior and of most offices of
the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
What remained of this ministry (again named Ministry of Labour), was mainly
concerned with the retirement allocations.
In the course of the following years both departments were reunited or/and
reorganized several times.
Ministers of Hygiene, Assistance and Social Security
(Ministres à l'Hygiène, à l'Assistance et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1920 - 1921 Jean Louis Breton 1872 - 1940
1921 - 1922 Georges Leredu 1860 - 1943
1922 - 1924 Paul Strauss 1852 - 1942
Ministers of Labour
(Ministres au Travail)
1920 - 1921 Paul Léon Jourdain s.a.
1921 - 1922 Charles Augustin Daniel-Vincent s.a.
1922 - 1924 Albert Peyronnet 1862 - 1958
1924 : Ministries united
Ministers of Labour and Hygiene
(Ministres au Travail et à l'Hygiène)
1924 Charles Augustin Daniel-Vincent s.a.
1924 Paul Léon Jourdain s.a.
Ministers of Labour, Hygiene, Assistance and Social Security
(Ministres au Travail, à l'Hygiène, à l'Assistance et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1924 - 1925 Justin Godart 1871 - 1956
1925 - 1926 Antoine Durafour 1872 - 1932
1926 Louis Pasquet 1867 - 1931
1926 - 1928 André Fallières 1875 - 1968
1928 - 1930 Louis Loucheur
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1928 - 1930 Alfred Oberkirch s.a.
Under Secretary of State of Hygiene
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à l'Hygiène)
1930 Mario Roustan s.a.
1930 : Ministry divided into :
- the Ministry of Labour and Social Security
- the Ministry of Public Health
Ministers of Labour and Social Security
(Ministres au Travail et à la Prévoyance sociale)
1930 Pierre Laval s.a.
1930 - 1931 Édouard Joseph Auguste Grinda 1866 - 1959
1931 - 1932 Adolphe Landry 1874 - 1956
1932 - 1933 Pierre Laval (2x)
1932 - 1933 Albert Dalimier 1875 - 1936
1933 François Albert "François-Albert" 1877 - 1933
1933 Eugène Frot s.a.
1933 - 1934 Lucien Lamoureux s.a.
1934 Eugène Frot (2x)
1934 Jean Marie Albin Valadier 1878 - 1959
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1930 Pierre Cathala 1888 - 1947
1930 - 1931 Auguste Mounié
1931 - 1932 Maurice Foulon 1886 - 1968
1932 none
1932 - 1933 François de Tessan 1883 - 1944
1933 - 1934 none
Ministers of Public Health
(Ministres à la Santé publique)
1930 Désiré Ferry 1886 - 1940
1930 - 1931 Henri Queuille s.a.
1931 - 1932 Camille Blaisot 1881 - 1945
1932 Jules Godart s.a.
1932 - 1933 Charles Léon Claude Daniélou s.a.
1933 Émile Lisbonne 1876 - 1947
1933 - 1934 Alexandre Israel 1868 - 1937
1934 Émile Lisbonne (2x)
1934 : New reorganization of the Ministries
Ministers of Labour
(Ministres au Travail)
1934 André Théodore Ernest Marquet 1884 - 1955
1934 - 1935 Paul Maurice Jacquier s.a.
1935 - 1936 Ludovic-Oscar Frossard 1889 - 1946
1936 - 1937 Jean Baptiste Lebas s.a.
1937 - 1938 André Février s.a.
1938 Paul Ramadier s.a.
1938 Albert Sérol 1877 - 1961
1938 Paul Ramadier (2x)
1938 - 1940 Charles Pomaret 1897 - 1984
1940 Albert Février (2x)
1940 Charles Pomaret (2x)
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1936 Maxence Bernard Pierre Bibié s.a.
1936 - 1937 none
1937 - 1938 Philipe Serre 1901 - 1991
1938 Gabriel Lafaye 1888 - 1959
1938 - 1940 none
Ministers of Public Health and Physical Education
(Ministres à la Santé publique et à l'Éducation physique)
1934 Louis Marin 1871 - 1960
1934 - 1935 Henri Queuille s.a.
1935 - 1936 Louis Ernest Lafont 1879 - 1946
1936 Louis Nicolle 1871 - 1942
Ministers of Public Health
(Ministres à la Santé publique)
1936 - 1937 Henri Charles Sellier 1883 - 1942
1937 - 1938 Marc Rucart 1893 - 1964
1938 Fernand Pierre Gentin 1876 - 1946
1938 - 1940 Marc Rucart (2x)
1940 Marcel Héraud 1883 - 1960
1940 none
Under Secretary of State of Physical Education
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à l'Éducation physique)
1936 - 1937 Pierre Dézarnaulds 1879 - 1975
Under Secretary of State for the Organization of Leisures and Sports
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à l'Organisation des Loisirs et Sports)
1936 - 1937 Léo Lagrange 1900 - 1940
Under Secretary of State for the Protection of Childhood
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à la Protection de l'Enfance)
1936 - 1937 Suzanne Lacore° 1875 - 1975
Ministers of the French Family
(Ministres à la Famille française) (1)
1940 Georges Pernot s.a.
1940 Jean Ybernégaray, also Minister
of War Veterans. 1883 - 1956
(1) This ministry formally was the successor of the department of Public Health.
In fact it was also concerned with the organization of the return to so-
called "traditional familial values", promoted by the French government since
1938 in a attempt to "revitalise the French nation in the face of foreign
ennemies" and including measures such as the general interdiction of abortion,
the strict limitation of women's labour, etc.
Ministers of Cultural Affairs
Ministers of Worships
Ministres aux Cultes
Except for two brief periods when there were separate ministers [may 1873 : Marie
François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou (s.a.)] and feb - mar 1879 : Émile Louis Gustave
Dehayes de Marcère* (1828 - 1916)] this department always was united with one of
the other ministries :
- of Public Instruction and Fine Arts (see below) : 1870 - 1873, 1873 - 1876, 1877
- 1879, 1885 - 1886 , 1887 - 1888, 1892 - 1894, 1895 - 1896 and 1905 - 1908
- of Justice : 1876 - 1877, 1882, 1883 - 1885, 1888 - 1892 and 1896 - 1898
- of the Interior : 1879 - 1881, 1882 - 1883, 1886 - 1887, 1894 - 1895, 1898 - 1905
and 1909 - 1912 when the department was abolished.
- of Public Instruction (see below) : 1881 - 1882
[(W) = also Minister of Worships]
Ministers of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Ministres à l'Instruction publique et aux Beaux Arts
1870 - 1873 Jules François Suisse Simon "Jules Simon" (W) 1814 - 1896
1873 William Henry Waddington 1826 - 1894
1873 Anselme Polycarpe Batbie (W) 1838 - 1887
1873 - 1874 Marie François Oscar Bardy de Fourtou (W) s.a.
1874 - 1875 Arthur Timothée Antoine, Vicomte
de Cumont (W) 1818 - 1902
1875 - 1876 Henri Alexandre Wallon (W) 1812 - 1904
1876 - 1877 William Henry Waddington (2x)
1877 Joseph Brunet (W) 1829 - 1891
1877 Hervé Auguste Faye (W) 1814 - 1902
1877 - 1879 Agénor Benjamin Joseph Bardoux (W) 1829 - 1897
1879 - 1881 Jules Ferry 1832 - 1893
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1873 - 1875 Albert Michel Desjardins 1838 -
1875 - 1877 none
1877 - 1879 Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Périer 1847 - 1907
Under Secretary of State for Fine Arts
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Beaux Arts)
1879 - 1881 Edmond Turquet 1836 - 1914
1881 : Ministry divided into the Ministries of Public Instruction and of Arts
Minister of Public Instruction
Ministre à l'Instruction publique
1881 - 1882 Paul Bert (W) 1833 - 1886
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1881 - 1882 Arthur Jean Marie Chalamet 1822 - 1895
Minister of the Arts
Ministre aux Arts
1881 - 1882 Antonin Proust 1822 - 1905
1882 : Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts restored
Ministers of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Ministres à l'Instruction publique et aux Beaux Arts
1882 Jules Ferry (2x)
1882 - 1883 Jules Duvaux 1827 - 1902
1883 Jules Ferry (3x)
1883 - 1885 Armand Fallières 1841 - 1931
1885 - 1886 René Goblet (W) 1828 - 1905
1886 - 1887 Pierre Eugène Marcelin Berthelot 1827 - 1907
1887 Jacques Eugène Spuller (W) 1835 - 1896
1887 - 1888 Étienne Léopold Faye (w) 1828 - 1900
1888 - 1889 Édouard Étienne Antoine Simon "Lockroy" s.a.
1889 - 1890 Armand Fallières (2x)
1890 - 1892 Léon Bourgeois s.a.
1892 - 1893 Charles Alexandre Dupuy (W) 1851 - 1923
1893 Raymond Poincaré (W) 1860 - 1934
1893 - 1894 Jacques Eugène Spuller (2x) (W)
1894 - 1895 Georges Leygues 1858 - 1933
1895 Raymond Poincaré (2x) (W)
1895 - 1896 Émile Combes (W) 1835 - 1921
1896 - 1898 Alfred Rambaud (W in 1896) 1842 - 1905
1898 Léon Bourgeois (2x)
1898 - 1902 Georges Leygues (2x)
1902 - 1905 Jacques Chaumié 1849 - 1919
1905 - 1906 Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin (W) s.a.
1905 - 1908 Aristide Briand (W) 1862 - 1932
1908 - 1910 Gaston Doumergue s.a.
1910 - 1911 Maurice Faure 1850 - 1919
1911 - 1912 Théodore Steeg 1858 - 1950
1912 - 1913 Gabriel Henri Gust'hau s.a.
1913 Théodore Steeg (2x)
1913 Louis Barthou s.a.
1913 - 1914 René Viviani s.a.
1914 Arthur Dessoyé 1854 - 1927
1914 Victor Augagneur 1855 - 1931
1914 - 1915 Albert Maurics Sarraut 1872 - 1962
1915 - 1916 Paul Painlevé, also Minister of Inventions
related to the National Defence 1863 - 1933
1916 - 1917 René Viviani (2x)
1917 Théodore Steeg (3x)
1917 Charles Augustin Daniel-Vincent s.a.
1917 - 1919 Antonin Baptiste Louis Lafferre s.a.
1919 - 1920 Léon Félix Joseph Bérard 1876 - 1960
1920 - 1921 André Honnorat 1868 - 1950
1921 - 1924 Léon Félix Joseph Bérard (2x)
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1882 Jules Duvaux s.a.
1882 - 1883 Jules Benoît Logerotte 1823 - 1884
1883 - 1885 Eugène Durand 1838 - 1917
1885 - 1886 Edmond Turquet s.a.
Under Secretaries of State for Fine Arts
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Beaux-Arts)
1905 - 1908 Henri Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz 1852 - 1913
1908 - 1910 none
1910 - 1912 Henri Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz
(2x)
1912 - 1913 Léon Félix Joseph Bérard s.a.
1913 - 1914 Paul Maurice Jacquier s.a.
1914 none
1914 - 1917 Albert Dalimier s.a.
1917 - 1924 none
Under Secretaries of State for Technical Teaching
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Enseignement technique)
1920 - 1921 Pierre Coupat
1921 - 1924 Gaston Vidal 1888 - 1949
1924 : Ministry briefly styled Ministry of Public Instruuction, Fine Arts and
Technical Teaching
Ministers of Public Instruuction, Fine Arts and Technical Teaching
Ministres à l'Instruction Publique, aux Beaux-Arts et à l'Enseignement
technique
1924 Henri de Jouvenel 1876 - 1935
1924 Adolphe Landry s.a.
1924 : former style of Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts restored
Ministers of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Ministres à l'Instruction publique et aux Beaux Arts
1924 - 1925 François Albert "François-Albert" s.a.
1925 Anatole de Monzie s.a.
1925 Yvon Delbos 1885 - 1956
1925 - 1926 Édouard Daladier s.a.
1926 Lucien Lamoureux s.a.
1926 Pierre Bertrand Nogaro 1880 - 1950
1926 Édouard Daladier (2x)
1926 - 1928 Édouard Hérriot s.a.
1928 - 1930 Pierre Marraud 1861 - 1958
1930 Jean Durand s.a.
1930 Pierre Marraud (2x)
1930 - 1931 Camille Chautemps s.a.
1931 - 1932 Mario Roustan s.a.
Under Secretaries of State for Technical Teaching
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Enseignement technique)
1924 - 1925 Vincent de Moro-Gafferri 1878 - 1956
1925 Yvon Delbos (also US of Fine
Arts) s.a.
1925 - 1926 Paul Bénazet (in 1925 also US
of Professional Teaching and
Continuation Teaching, of
Physical Education and of the
Preparation for the Military
Service) 1876 - 1948
1926 Pierre Ramell (also US of
Fine Arts)
1926 Gaston Bazile 1883 - 1952
1926 - 1928 none
1928 - 1929 André François-Poncet 1887 - 1978
1929 - 1930 Léon Jean Jacques Baréty 1883 - 1971
1930 César Hippolyte Joseph Chabrun 1880 - 1934
1930 Henri Lillaz 1881 - 1949
1930 - 1931 Frédéric Antoine Brunet 1868 - 1932
1931 - 1932 Charles Pomaret s.a.
1932 none
Under Secretaries of State for Physical Education
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Éducation physique)
1928 - 1930 Henry Paté 1878 - 1942
1930 Émile Morinaud 1865 - 1952
1930 - 1931 Pierre Tricard-Graveron 1901 - 1948
1931 - 1932 Émile Morinaud (2x)
1932 none
Under Secretaries of State for Fine Arts
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Beaux-Arts)
1928 - 1930 André François-Poncet s.a.
1930 Léo Pierre Joseph Bouyssou 1872 - 1935
1930 Eugène Lautier 1867 - 1935
1930 - 1931 Adrien Maxime Aimé Berthod 1878 - 1944
1931 - 1932 Maurice Petsche 1895 - 1951
1932 none
1932 : Ministry renamed Ministry of National Education.
Ministers of National Education
Ministres à l'Éducation nationale
1932 - 1934 Anatole de Monzie s.a.
1934 Adrien Maxime Aimé Berthod s.a.
1934 - 1935 André Mallarmé s.a.
1935 Mario Roustan s.a.
1935 Philippe Marcombes 1877 - 1935
1935 - 1936 Mario Roustan (2x)
1936 Henri Guernut 1876 - 1943
1936 - 1939 Jean Zay 1904 - 1944
1939 - 1940 Yvon Delbos s.a.
1940 Albert Maurice Sarraut s.a.
1940 Yvon Delbos (2x)
1940 Albert Rivaud 1876 - 1956
Under Secretaries of State of Physical Education
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Éducation physique)
1932 - 1933 Philippe Marcombes s.a.
1933 none
1933 Victor Le Gorgeu
1933 - 1934 Adolphe François Chéron 1873 - 1951
1934 André Lorgeré 1891 - 1973
1934 - 1937 none
1937 - 1938 Léon Lagrange (also US for
Sports and Leisures) s.a.
1938 Léon Courson 1883 - 1950
1938 Léon Lagrange (also US for
Sports and Leisures) (2x)
Under Secretaries of State of Technical Teaching
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à l'Enseignement technique)
1932 - 1933 Hippolyte Roc Aristide Ducos 1881 - 1970
1933 none
1933 Philippe Marcombes s.a.
1933 - 1934 Victor Le Gorgeu s.a.
1934 Gustave Doussain 1872 - 1945
1934 - 1936 none
1936 - 1938 Alfred Jules-Julien s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of Fine Arts
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Beaux-Arts)
1932 - 1933 Jean Mistler s.a.
1933 - 1934 none
1934 André Paul Bardon 1901 - 1965
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1933 Hippolyte Roc Aristide Ducos s.a.
Under Secretary of State of National Education
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État à l'Éducation nationale)
1936 Cécile Bruschvig° 1875 - 1946
Under Secretaries of State of Scientific Research
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État à la Recherche scientifique)
1936 Irène Jolliot-Curie° 1897 - 1956
1936 Paul Perrin 1891 - 1950
1936 - 1938 none
1938 Paul Perrin (2x)
Ministers of Oversea Dependencies
(In charge of most French dependencies. Major exceptions were Algeria, Morocco,
Tunesia and the Mandated territories in the Levant)
1870 - 1881 The Ministers of the Navy
1881 - 1882 The Ministers of Commerce s.a.
Directors of the Colonies (at the Navy and Commerce Ministries)
Directeurs des Colonies
1860 - 1871 ... Zoepffel (Navy)
1871 - 1878 Augustin, Baron Benoîst d'Azy
(Navy)
1878 - 1882 ... Michaux (Navy and Commerce)
1882 - 1889 The Ministers of the Navy
Under Secretary of State of the Colonies
Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies
1882 Albert Ernest Edmond Berlet 1837 - 1886
1882 - 1883 none. Direction of the
Colonies briefly restored.
Director of the Colonies
Directeur des Colonies
1882 - 1883 Paul Dislère
Under Secretaries of State of the Colonies
Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Colonies
1883 - 1885 François Félix Faure s.a.
1885 - 1886 Paul Armand Rousseau 1835 - 1896
1886 - 1887 Jean de La Porte 1848 -
1887 Eugène Étienne 1844 - 1921
1887 - 1888 none
1888 - 1889 Jean de La Porte (2x)
1889 none
1889 - 1892 The Ministers of Commerce and Industry s.a.
Under Secretary of State of the Colonies
Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies
1889 - 1892 Eugène Étienne (2x)
1892 none
1892 - 1893 The Ministers of the Navy
Under Secretary of State of the Colonies
Sous-Secrétaire d'État aux Colonies
1892 - 1893 Émile François Jamais 1856 - 1893
1893 - 1894 The Ministers of Commerce and Industry s.a.
Under Secretaries of State of the Colonies
Sous-Secrétaires d'État aux Colonies
1893 Théophile Delcassé 1852 - 1923
1893 - 1894 Maurice Lebon 1849 - 1906
Ministers of the Colonies
Ministres aux Colonies
1894 Ernest Théophile Boulanger 1831 - 1907
1894 - 1895 Théophile Delcassé s.a.
1895 François Émile Chautemps 1850 - 1918
1895 - 1896 Pierre Guieysse 1841 - 1914
1896 - 1898 André Lebon s.a.
1898 Gabriel Hanoteaux* 1853 - 1944
1898 Georges Trouillot s.a.
1898 - 1899 Florent Antoine Guillain 1844 - 1915
1899 - 1902 Albert Pierre Louis Decrais 1838 - 1915
1902 - 1905 Gaston Doumergue s.a.
1905 - 1906 Étienne Clémentel s.a.
1906 Georges Leygues s.a.
1906 - 1909 Raphael Milliès-Lacroix 1850 - 1929
1909 - 1910 Georges Trouillot (2x)
1910 - 1911 Jean Morel 1854 - 1927
1911 Adolphe Messimy 1869 - 1935
1911 - 1913 Albert Lebrun 1871 - 1950
1913 René Henri Besnard s.a.
1913 Jean Morel (2x)
1913 - 1914 Albert Lebrun (2x)
1914 Jacques Maurice Maunoury 1863 - 1925
1914 Étienne Maurice Raynaud 1860 - 1927
1914 - 1917 Gaston Doumergue (2x)
1917 André Maginot 1877 - 1932
1917 René Henri Besnard (2x)
1917 - 1920 Henri Louis Simon 1874 - 1925
1920 - 1924 Albert Maurice Sarraut s.a.
1924 Jean Fabry 1876 - 1968
1924 - 1925 Édouard Daladier s.a.
1925 Orly André Hesse s.a.
1925 - 1926 Léon Perrier, since 1926 also
in charge of the Merchant Marine 1873 - 1948
1926 Adrien Louis Dariac, also
in charge of the Merchant Marine 1858 - 1949
1926 - 1928 Léon Perrier, also in charge of
the Merchant Marine (2x)
1928 - 1929 André Maginot, also in charge of
the Merchant Marine (2x)
1929 - 1930 François Piétri s.a.
1930 Lucien Lamoureux s.a.
1930 François Piétri (2x)
1930 - 1931 Théodore Steeg s.a.
1931 - 1932 Paul Reynaud 1878 - 1966
1932 Louis Marie Michel, Vicomte
de Chappedelaine s.a.
1932 - 1933 Albert Maurice Sarraut (2x)
1933 Albert Dalimier s.a.
1933 François Piétri (3x)
1933 - 1934 Albert Dalimier (2x)
1934 Lucien Lamoureux (2x)
Under Secretaries of State
(Sous-Secrétaires d'État)
1929 - 1930 Alcide Jean-Baptiste Saint-
Ange Delmont 1874 - 1959
1930 Léon Daniel Josué Archimbaud 1880 - 1944
1930 Alcide Jean-Baptiste Saint-
Ange Delmont (2x)
1930 - 1931 Auguste Charles Désiré Brunet 1878 - 1957
1931 - 1932 Blaise Diagne 1872 - 1934
1932 none
1932 - 1933 Gratien Candace 1873 - 1953
1933 none
1933 Auguste Charles Désiré Brunet (2x)
Minister of Oversea France
Ministres à la France d'outremer
1934 Henri de Jouvenel s.a.
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1934 Maxence Bernard Pierre Bibié s.a.
Ministers of the Colonies
Ministres aux Colonies
1934 Pierre Laval s.a.
1934 - 1936 Louis Rollin s.a.
1936 Jacques Léon Stern s.a.
1936 - 1938 Marius Moutet 1876 - 1968
1938 Théodore Steeg (2x)
1938 Marius Moutet (2x)
1938 - 1940 Jéroboam Rotschild "Georges Mandel" s.a.
1940 Louis Rollin (2x)
1940 Albert Rivière 1886 - 1953
Under Secretary of State
(Sous-Secrétaire d'État)
1937 - 1938 Gaston Monnerville 1897 - 1991
High Commissioners, etc
HIGH COMMISSIONERS
High Commissioner to the British Government for Interallied Maritime Affairs
Haut Commissaire auprès de Gouvernement britannique pour les affaires maritimes
interalliées
1917 Charles Joseph Eugène Marie
Guernier s.a.
High Commissioner to the Unites States
Haut Commissaire aux États-Unis
1917 - 1919 Ancré Tardieu s.a.
High Commissioner of Housing
Haut Commissaire à l'Habitation
1925 - 1926 Arthur Levasseur 1875 - 1955
High Commissioner of Public Works for the Aeronautic and Air Transports
Haut Commissaire aux Travaux publics pour l'Aéronautique et les Transports aériens
1925 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac" s.a.
High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon
Haut Commissaire en Syrie et au Liban
1925 - 1926 Henri de Jouvenel s.a.
High Commissioner of War
Haut Commissaire à la Guerre
1925 - 1926 Paul Bénazet s.a.
High Commissioner of Tourism
Haut Commissaire au Tourisme
1930 Gaston Gérard s.a.
High Commissioner of National Economy
Haut Commissaire à l'Economie nationale
1939 - 1940 Damiel Serruys
High Commissioner of French Propaganda
Haut Commissaire à la Propagande française
1940 Jean Prouvost 1885 - 1978
COMMISSIONERS GENERAL
Commissioners General of Gasolines and Fuels/Gasolines and Petroleum
Commissaires généraux aux Essences et Combusirbles/Essences et Pétrole
1918 - 1920 Henri Bérenger
1920 none
1920 Laurent André Victor Eynac "Laurent-Eynac" s.a.
Commissioner General in charge of the supervision of the French Troops of Colonial
origin and of the Indigenous Troopers and Workers of the African Possessions
subordinated to the Ministry of Colonies
Commissaire général chargé du controle des militaires français d'origine coloniale
et des militaires et travailleurs originaires des possessions africaines dépendent
du Ministère des Colonies
1918 - 1920 Blaise Diagne s.a.
Commissioner General of Alsace - Lorraine
Commissaire général de l'Alsace - Lorraine
1919 Étienne Alexandre Millerand s.a.
Commissioner General of the Black Troops
Commissaire général aux Troupes noires
1920 - 1921 Blaise Diagne s.a.
Commissioners Général of War for Physical Education
Commissaires généraux à la Guerre pour l'Éducation physique
1924 Henri Paté s.a.
1924 none
1924 - 1925 Paul Bénazet s.a.
Commissioner General of Information
Commissaire général à l'Information
1939 - 1940 Jean Giraudoux 1882 - 1944
Commissioner General of Supply
Commissaire général au Ravitaillement
1940 ... Bernard
Commissioner General of National Reconstruction
Commissaire général à la Reconstruction nationale
1940 MajGen. Joseph Édouard Aimé Doumenc 1880 - 1948
COMMISSIONERS
Commissioners of Maritime Transports and the Merchant Marine
Commissaires aux Transports maritimes et à la Marine marchande
1918 Fernand Bouisson 1874 - 1959
1918 - 1919 none
1919 Fernand Bouisson (2x)
1919 Pierre Dupuy 1876 - 1968
Commissioner of Supply
Commissaire au Ravitaillement
1919 - 1920 Henri Roy s.a.
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