The military governor of Paris is a post within the

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. He commands the garrison of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

and represents all the military based in Paris at high state occasions. He is also responsible (subordinate to the

President of France The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the po ...

) for organizing major national ceremonies such as the

Bastille Day military parade The Bastille Day military parade, also known as the 14 July military parade, translation of the French name of , is a French military parade that has been held on the morning of Bastille Day, 14 July, each year in Paris since 1880, almost with ...

down the

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. The foundation of the post is blurred, but it has subsequently evolved in two phases. Under the

Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for " ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virelai ancien ** Ancien Régime ** Ancien Régime in France {{disambig ...

, its role was limited in comparison to his colleagues in the

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, who represented the

King of France France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Fra ...

in his absence, whereas in Paris the King was present. The post was dispensed with at the time of the French Revolution before being re-established by

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

in 1804, when it was reinforced by becoming a military-command role.

List of governors

Governors of Paris under the Ancien Régime

* Louis I d'Anjou: 1356–1357 *

Jean de Berry John of Berry or John the Magnificent (French language, French: ''Jean de Berry'', ; 30 November 1340 – 15 June 1416) was Duke of Berry and Rulers of Auvergne, Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. His brothers were King Charles ...

: 1411 * Waléran III de Luxembourg: 1411–1413 * Jean II de Luxembourg: 1418–1420 * Marshal Jean de La Baume: 1422–142. *

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: 1429–14.. * Philippe de Ternant: 14..–14.. * Jacques de Villiers: 1461 *

Charles d'Artois Charles d'Artois (; 1300 – September 1346) was a Neapolitan nobleman and court official. Charles was born in 1300 as the illegitimate son of Robert, heir apparent to the throne of Naples. His mother waCantelma Cantelmo lady of the bedchamber t ...

, Count of Eu: 1465 * Charles de Melun, Baron of the Landes and of Normanville: 1465–1467 * Charles I d'Amboise, Count of Brienne: 1467–1470 * Charles de Gaucourt, Viscount of Aix: 14..–1472 *

Antoine de Chabannes Antoine de Chabannes (1408–1488), from 1439 Counts of Dammartin, Count of Dammartin (with a gap in 1463–1465), was a significant military and political figure of 15th-century France. An indefatigable fighter, during his long career he joined ...

, Count of Dammartin: 1472–147. * Guillaume de Poitiers: 1478–14.. * Louis d'Orléans: 1483–1485 *

, Count of Dammartin: 1485–1488 * Gilbert de Montpensier: 14..–1494 *

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: 1493–1496 *

Antoine de La Rochefoucauld Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, Seigneur de Chaumont-sur-Loire, served Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé as a knight (''chevalier de l'ordre du Roi'') and his chamberlain. On 7 October 1552, he married Cécile de Montmirail, daughter of Étienne ...

, Lord of Barbezieux: 15..–15.. * Marshal

Paul de Thermes Paul de La Barthe de Thermes or de Termes (1482–1562), also Paul de Terme or Maréchal de Thermes, was a French army Marshal ("Maréchal"). Reign of Henri II Rough Wooing In June 1549, de Thermes was sent to Scotland to help in the war against ...

: 1559–1562 * Marshal Charles de Cossé: 1562–1563 * Marshal

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: 15..–1572 *

René de Villequier René de Villequier, baron de Clervaux, d'Aubigny et d'Ivry-le-Château ( –1586) was a French governor and favourite of king Henri III during the French Wars of Religion. Rising to prominence early in the reign of Charles IX, he gravitated ...

, Viscount of La Guerche: 1580 *

François d'O François d'O, seigneur de Fresne et de Maillebois (1545/50-) was a French soldier, statesman and favourite of Henri III of France, Henri III. Rising to prominence through his association with the dauphin Henri, he served with the prince at the Si ...

: 158.–1589 * Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie: 1589–1590 * Jean-Francois de Faudoas: 1590–1594 *

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, Marshal of the league: 1594 *

: 1594 * Charles du Plessis: 1616 *

Hercule de Rohan Hercule de Rohan (27 August 1568 – 16 October 1654) was a member of the princely House of Rohan. The second Duke of Montbazon, he is an ancestor of the present Princes of Guéméné. His daughter was the famous Frondeur the '' duchesse de ...

, Duke of Montbazon: 1643–16.. * Marshal

François de L'Hospital François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1 ...

: 1648–1657 * Maréchal de Camp Ambroise-François de Bournonville: 1657–1662 * Marshal Antoine d'Aumont, Marquis of Villequier: 1662–1669 * Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart: 1669–1675 *

Charles III de Créquy Charles III de Blanchefort-Créquy, sieur de Blanchefort, prince de Poix, duc de Créquy (24 March 1624 – 13 February 1687) was a French peer and soldier, who also served Louis XIV as diplomat and advisor. Life Charles III was the eldest of ...

, Duke of Poix: 1676–1687 *

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, Duke of Gesvres: 1687–1704 * Duc de Tresmes: 1704–1739 * Bernard Potier, Duke of Gesvres: 1739–1757 * Charles Louis d'Albert, Duke of Chevreuse and of Luynes: 1757–1771 * Marshal Jean de Cossé-Brissac: 1771–1780 * Maréchal de Camp Louis de Cossé-Brissac: 1780–1791

General commanders of the Armed Forces in Paris

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* General Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry: 1791–1792 * General Jacques-François de Menou: 1792–1794 * General Jean Thierry: 1794–1795 * General Jacques-François de Menou: 1795 * General Paul de Barras: 1795 * General

Napoléon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

: 1795–1796 * General

Jacques Maurice Hatry Jacques Maurice Hatry (; Strasbourg, 12 February 1742 – Paris, 30 November 1802) was a French general. A colonel on the outbreak of the French Revolution, he rose to général de division in 1794 and fought with distinction in the armée du ...

: 1796–1797 * General

Pierre Augereau Charles Pierre François Augereau, duc de Castiglione (; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. After serving in the ...

: 1797 * General

Louis Lemoine Louis Lemoine (23 November 1764 – 23 January 1842) commanded a French infantry division during the French Revolutionary Wars. He enlisted in the French Royal Army in 1783 and rose to the rank of sous-officer. Elected lieutenant colonel of a ...

: 1797 * General Jean-François Moulin: 1797–1798 * General Joseph Gilot: 1798–1799 * General

Barthélemy Catherine Joubert Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (, 14 April 1769 – 15 August 1799) was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars. Recognizing his talents, Napoleon Bonaparte gave him increased responsibilities. Joubert was killed while co ...

: 1799 * General

Jean-Antoine Marbot Jean-Antoine Marbot ( , ; 7 December 1754 – 19 April 1800), also known to contemporaries as Antoine Marbot, was a French general and politician. He belongs to a family that has distinguished itself particularly in the career of arms, giving t ...

: 1799 * General

François Joseph Lefebvre François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig ( , ; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820) was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by N ...

: 1799–1800 * General

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: 1800–1803 * General

Jean-Andoche Junot Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes (; 25 September 1771 – 29 July 1813) was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for leading the French invasion of Portugal in 1807. ...

: 1803–1804

Military governors of Paris after the French Revolution

* General

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also ; ; ; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French Army officer and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the ...

: 1804–1805Tulard, Jean. Murat: Du maréchal d'Empire au roi de Naples. Paris: Marabout, 1983, 68–69. * Prince

Louis Bonaparte Louis Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French c ...

: 1805–1806 * Marshal

: 1806 * General

: 1806–1807 * General

Pierre-Augustin Hulin Pierre-Augustin Hulin (; 6 September 1758 – 9 January 1841) was a French general under Napoleon Bonaparte who took part in the storming of the Bastille, the trial of the Duke d'Enghien, and the foiling of the Malet coup. Early life P ...

: 1807–1814 * General Louis de Rochechouart: 1814 * General Louis Sébastien Grundler: May 1814–January 1815 * General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1815 * General

: 1815 (

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) * Marshal

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: July 1815 * General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: July–September 1815 * General Hyacinthe Despinoy: 1815–1816 * Marshal

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: 1816–1818 * General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1819–1821 * Marshal

Auguste de Marmont Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse (; 20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title (). In the Peninsular War Marmont succeeded th ...

: 1821–1830 * General Pierre-Claude Pajol: 1830–1842 * General

Tiburce Sébastiani Jean André Tiburce, viscount Sébastiani de La Porta, was a French General officer, general and politician. He was born on 21 March 1786 in La Porta (Haute-Corse) and died on 16 September 1871 in Bastia (Haute-Corse). Deputy of Corsica from 1828 ...

: 1842–1848 * General

Nicolas Changarnier Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier (; 26 April 1793 – 14 February 1877), French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Educated at Saint-Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and entered the line as a lieu ...

: 1848–1851 * General

Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers Louis-Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers (6 September 1795 – 6 June 1878), 1st Comte Baraguey d'Hilliers, was a Marshal of France and politician. Baraguey d'Hilliers was born in Paris, the son of the French revolutionary general Louis Baraguey d'Hil ...

: 1851 * Marshal

Bernard Pierre Magnan Bernard Pierre Magnan (7 December 1791 in Paris – 29 May 1865 in Paris) was a Marshal of France. Magnan started his career as an enlisted soldier of the 66th Line in 1809. Promoted to sergeant in 1810, the next year he entered the officer ...

: 1851–1865 * Marshal

François Certain de Canrobert François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (; born François Certain Canrobert; 27 June 1809 – 28 January 1895) was a French Marshal of France, Marshal. He demonstrated ability during the Second French Empire while participating in the Battle of ...

: 1865–1870 * Marshal

: 1870 * General

Louis-Jules Trochu Louis-Jules Trochu (; 12 March 18157 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense—France's ''de facto'' head of state—from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on ...

: 1870–1871 * General

Joseph Vinoy Joseph Vinoy (; 10 August 1803 – 27 April 1880) was a French soldier, who commanded the French capital's defenses during the siege of Paris in the course of the Franco-Prussian War. Biography He originally intended to join the Church, but, ...

: 1871 * General

Paul de Ladmirault Paul de Ladmirault (17 February 1808, in Montmorillon – 1 February 1898, in Sillars) was a French general active in the French conquest of Algeria and during the wars of the Second French Empire. Life Ladmirault was born on 17 February 1808 a ...

: 1871–1878 * General Édouard Aymard: 1878–1880 * General

Justin Clinchant Justin Clinchant (; 24 December 1820, Thiaucourt-Regniéville – 20 March 1881) was a French Army general of the 19th century. Biography Clinchant entered the army from St Cyr in 1841. From 1847 to 1852 Clinchant was employed in the Algerian ...

: 1880–1881 * General Alphonse-Théodore Lecointe: 1882–1884 * Divisional general Félix-Gustave Saussier: 1884–1898 * General

Émile Zurlinden Émile Auguste François Thomas Zurlinden (3 November 1837 – 9 March 1929) was a French Army general and politician. An Alsatian by birth, he distinguished himself on the battlefield during the Franco-Prussian War, and participated in the suppre ...

: 1898–1899 * General

Joseph Brugère Henri Joseph Brugère (Uzerche, 27 June 1841 – Lautaret, 31 August 1918) was a French divisional general. Career On 4 October 1914, German attacks by the II Cavalry Corps (General Georg von der Marwitz) and the XIV Reserve Corps drove the ...

: 1899–1900 * Divisional general Georges-Auguste Florentin: 1900–1901 * General Paul-Vincent Faure-Biguet: 1901–1903 * General

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: 1903–1906 * General Jean-Baptiste Dalstein: 1906–1910 * General

Michel-Joseph Maunoury Michel-Joseph Maunoury (; 17 December 1847 – 28 March 1923) was a commander of the French forces in the early days of World War I who was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France. Initially commanding in Lorraine, as the ...

: 1910–1912 * General

Victor-Constant Michel Général Victor-Constant Michel (30 January 1850 – 8 November 1937) was a French General officer. He led the French Army in 1911, but following his opposition to the French strategy for war with Germany was replaced by General Joseph Joffre in J ...

: 1912–1914 * Général de division

Joseph Gallieni Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 – 27 May 1916) was a French military officer, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies where he wrote several books on colonial affairs. He was rec ...

: 1914–1915 * General

: 1915–1916 * General

Augustin Dubail Augustin Yvon Edmond Dubail (15 April 1851 – 7 January 1934) was a French Army general. He commanded the First Army and Army Group East during World War I. Biography Augustin Dubail was born in Belfort on April 15, 1851. He graduated fr ...

: 1916–1918 * General

Adolphe Guillaumat Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat (4 January 1863 – 18 May 1940) was a French Army general during World War I. Early years Adolphe Guillaumat was born in Bourgneuf, Charente-Maritime. He graduated first from his class of 1884 at the Saint-Cyr ...

: 1918 * General Charles Emile Moinier: 1918–1919 * General

Pierre Berdoulat Pierre Émile Berdoulat (July 29, 1861 – November 24, 1930) was a French Divisional General who participated in World War I. He participated in the battles of the Second Battle of Champagne, 2nd Champagne and Battle of the Somme, the Somme befo ...

: 1919–1923 * General

Henri Gouraud Henri Gouraud (17 November 1867 - 16 September 1946) was a French army general. He played a central role in the colonization of French Africa and the Levant. During World War I, he fought in major battles such as those of the Argonne, the Dard ...

: 1923–1937 * General

Gaston Billotte Gaston-Henri Billotte (10 February 1875 – 23 May 1940) was a French military officer, remembered chiefly for his central role in the failure of the French Army to defeat the German invasion of France in May 1940. He was killed in a car acciden ...

: 1937–1939 * General

Pierre Héring Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

: 1939–1940 * General

Henri Dentz Henri Fernand Dentz (; 16 December 1881 – 13 December 1945) was a general in the French Army (''Armée de Terre'') who served with the Vichy French Army after France surrendered during the Second World War. He was tried as a collaborator aft ...

: June 1940

Military governors of Paris under the German occupation

Under the

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, Paris had at least three German military governors: * General

Otto von Stülpnagel Otto Edwin von Stülpnagel (16 June 1878 – 6 February 1948) was a German military commander of occupied France during the Second World War. Arrested by Allied authorities after the war, he committed suicide in prison in 1948. Career Otto von ...

* General

Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (2 January 1886 – 30 August 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was an army level commander. While serving as military commander of German-occupied France and as com ...

, cousin of the former * General

Dietrich von Choltitz Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (; 9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was a German general. Sometimes referred to as the Saviour of Paris, he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving i ...

Military governors of Paris since 1944

* General

Philippe Leclerc Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as or just Leclerc. ...

: 1944 * General

Marie-Pierre Kœnig Marie Joseph Pierre François Kœnig or Koenig (10 October 1898 – 2 September 1970) was a French general during World War II during which he commanded a Free French Brigade at the Battle of Bir Hakeim in North Africa in 1942. He started a poli ...

: 1944–1945 * General

Paul Legentilhomme Paul Louis Legentilhomme (March 26, 1884 – May 23, 1975) was an officer in the French Army during World War I and World War II. After the fall of France in 1940, he joined the forces of the Free French. Legentilhomme was a recipient of the ...

: 1945–1947 * Army general René Chouteau: 16 January 1947–March 1953 * Army general

Henri Zeller Henri Zeller (born 18 March 1896, Besançon, France – died 16 April 1971, Paris, France) was a French Army general and member of the Resistance organization of the French Army during World War II. Biography In the last days of July 1914, aged ...

: 1953–1957 * General Louis-Constant Morlière: 1957–1958 * General Pierre Garbay: 1958–1959 * General

Raoul Salan Raoul Albin Louis Salan (; 10 June 1899 – 3 July 1984) was a French Army general and the founder of the Organisation armée secrète, a clandestine terrorist organisation that sought to maintain French Algeria by preventing Algerian indepen ...

: 1959–1960 * Army general Maurice Gazin: 1960 * Army general

André Demetz André Demetz (1902–1977) was a French general, who fought in World War II and later rose to high rank after the war. Demetz was the first commander of the 25th Airborne Division during a period in which the French Army was redefining itself fo ...

: 1960–1962 * General Louis Dodelier: 1962–1965 * General Philippe de Camas: 1965–1968 * General

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: 1968–1971 * Army general Bernard Usureau: 1971–1974 * Army corps general Philippe Clave: 1974–1975 * General Jean Favreau: 1975–1977 * Army corps general Jacques de Barry: 1977–1980 * Army general Jeannou Lacaze: 15 September 1980–1981 * Army corps general

Roger Périer Roger is a masculine given name, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic languages">Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") ...

: 1981–1982 * Army general Alban Barthez: 1 September 1982 * Army corps general Michel Fennebresque: 1984 * Army general

Hervé Navereau Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''Charivius''. Anglicized ...

: 14 March 1987 * Army general

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: 1 September 1991 * Army general Michel Guignon: 1 August 1992 * Army corps general Michel Billot: 28 October 1996 * Army general Pierre Costedoat: 1 August 2000 * Army general

Marcel Valentin Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian ...

: 1 November 2002 * Army corps general Xavier de Zuchowicz: 1 August 2005 * Army general

Bruno Dary Bruno Dary (born 21 December 1952 in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) is a former Général d'armée of the French Army and commandant of the Foreign Legion.

: 1 August 2007 * Army general Hervé Charpentier: 1 August 2012 * Army corps general Bruno Le Ray: 31 July 2015 * Army corps general Christophe Abad: 31 July 2020 * Army corps general Loïc Mizon: 1 October 2024

Citations

Bibliography

* Colonel Gérard Bieuville, sous-lieutenant Pierre Perrier, ''Les Gouverneurs militaires de Paris'', Connaissances et mémoires européennes, Gouvernement militaire de Paris, 1999. * Tulard, Jean. ''Murat: Du maréchal d'Empire au roi de Naples.'' Paris: Marabout, 1983.

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Governors of Paris under the Ancien Régime

General commanders of the Armed Forces in Paris

Military governors of Paris after the French Revolution

Military governors of Paris under the German occupation

Military governors of Paris since 1944

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