List of Presidents of the National Assembly of France

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This page lists Presidents of the French parliament (or, as the case may be, of its lower Chamber).

The National Constituent Assembly was created in 1789 out of the Estates-General. It, and the revolutionary legislative assemblies that followed – the Legislative Assembly (1791–1792) and the National Convention (1792–1795), had a quickly rotating Presidency. With the establishment of the Directory in 1795, there were two chambers of the French legislature. The lower, the Council of Five Hundred, also had a quickly rotating chairmanship. Under Napoleon I, the Legislative Corps had all authority to actually enact laws, but was essentially a rubberstamp body, lacking the power to debate legislation. With the restoration of the monarchy, a bicameral system was restored, with a Chamber of Peers and a Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies, for the first time, had presidents elected for a substantial period of time.

With the revolution of 1848, the monarchical assemblies were dissolved and replaced again with a unicameral National Assembly, which Napoleon III replaced with a new version of his uncle's Legislative Corps. With the establishment of the Third Republic, the name of Chamber of Deputies was restored, and after 1876 was joined by a Senate as an upper house. The Chamber of Deputies was renamed the National Assembly in the constitution of the Fourth Republic, and is still known as that.

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly (1789–1791)

Presidents of the Legislative Assembly (1791–1792)

Presidents of the National Convention, 1792–1795

Bold indicates second term as President.

CoPS refers to Committee of Public Safety

CoGS refers to Committee of General Security

Presidents of the Legislative Corps (1800–1814)

Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1814–1815

Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives (1814–1815)

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of the Departments (1815–1830)

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1830–1848)

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly (1848–1849)

Presidents of the National Legislative Assembly (1849–1852)

Presidents of the Legislative Corps (1852–1870)

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1871–1840)

Presidents of the Consultative Assembly (1943–1945)

List of Presidents of the Constituent National Assembly (1945–1946)

Presidents of the National Assembly (1946–present)

Name		Took office	Left office	Political Party	Legislature (Election)
1	Vincent Auriol	3 December 1946	21 January 1947	SFIO	I (Nov.1946)
2	Édouard Herriot	21 January 1947	12 January 1954	Radical
					II (1951)
3	André Le Troquer	12 January 1954	11 January 1955	SFIO
4	Pierre Schneiter	11 January 1955	24 January 1956	MRP
5	André Le Troquer	24 January 1956	9 December 1958	SFIO	III (1956)
6	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	9 December 1958	25 June 1969	UNR	I · II · III · IV[1]
7	Achille Peretti	25 June 1969	2 April 1973	UDR	IV (1968)
8	Edgar Faure	2 April 1973	3 April 1978	UDR	V (1973)
9	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	3 April 1978	2 July 1981	RPR	VI (1978)
10	Louis Mermaz	2 July 1981	2 April 1986	PS	VII (1981)
11	Jacques Chaban-Delmas	2 April 1986	23 June 1988	RPR	VIII (1986)
12	Laurent Fabius	23 June 1988	22 January 1992	PS	IX (1988)
13	Henri Emmanuelli	22 January 1992	2 April 1993	PS
14	Philippe Séguin	2 April 1993	12 June 1997	RPR	X (1993)
15	Laurent Fabius	12 June 1997	29 March 2000	PS	XI (1997)
16	Raymond Forni	29 March 2000	25 June 2002	PS
17	Jean-Louis Debré	25 June 2002	2 March 2007	UMP	XII (2002)
18	Patrick Ollier	7 March 2007	19 June 2007	UMP
19	Bernard Accoyer	26 June 2007	19 June 2012	UMP	XIII (2007)
20	Claude Bartolone	26 June 2012	Present	PS	XIV (2012)

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