French Ministers of Finance

Georges-Étienne Bonnet (22/23 July 1889 – 18 June 1973) was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical Party.

Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, comte d'Arnouville, seigneur de Garge et de Gonesse, was born in Paris on December 13, 1701, and died on July 12, 1794 in a French Revolutionary prison.

Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (French pronunciation: ​[alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʁibo]; 7 February 1842 – 13 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.

Henri I de Montmorency (15 June 1534, Chantilly, Oise – 2 April 1614), Marshal of France, and Constable of France, seigneur of Damville, served as Governor of Languedoc from 1563 to 1614.

Jean-Jules Clamageran (March 29, 1827-June 4, 1903) was a French politician of the French Third Republic.

Michel Sapin (French pronunciation: ​[mi.ʃɛl sa.pɛ̃] ; born 9 April 1952) is a French politician who has served in the government of France as Minister of Finance since 2014.

Édouard Balladur (French: [e.dwaʁ ba.la.dyʁ]; born 2 May 1929) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.

Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (French: [ʃaʁl dyklɛʁ]; 7 August 1812, Bagnères-de-Bigorre – 29 January 1888) was a French journalist and politician of the Third Republic.

Paul Peytral (January 30, 1842 - November 30, 1919) was a French politician of the French Third Republic.

Raymond Poincaré (French pronunciation: ​[ʁɛmɔ̃ pwɛ̃kaʁe]; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as Prime Minister of France, and as President of France from 1913 to 1920.

Michel Chamillart or Chamillard (2 January 1652 – 14 April 1721) was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.

Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne (20 January 1734, Douai – 30 October 1802, Paris) was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.

Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (5 March 1675 – 20 July 1726) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen.

Étienne Clavière (27 January 1735 – 8 December 1793) was a Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.

Eugène Rouher (30 November 1814 – 3 February 1884) was a French statesman of the Second Empire.

Joseph Marie Terray (9 December 1715, Boën – 18 February 1778) was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France, an agent of fiscal reform.

Maurice Rouvier (French pronunciation: ​[moʁis ʁuvje]; 17 April 1842 – 7 June 1911) was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction.

Alain Madelin (born 26 March 1946, in Paris) is a French politician and a former minister of that country.

Christian Pineau (French pronunciation: ​[kʁistjɑ̃ pino]; 14 October 1904, in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France – 5 April 1995, in Paris) was a noted French Resistance fighter.

Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin (born March 24, 1720, Périgueux – September 16, 1792, Spa (Belgium)) was a French statesman, and controller general of finances of Louis XV (1759–1763).

René de Birague (original name: Renato Biragro; 2 February 1506 – 24 November 1583) was an Italian patrician who became a French cardinal and chancellor.

Philibert Orry, count of Vignory and lord of La Chapelle-Godefroy (born in Troyes on 22 January 1689 – died at La Chapelle-Godefroy on 9 November 1747), was a French statesman.

Étienne Clémentel (11 January 1864 – 25 December 1936) was a French politician.

François-Xavier Ortoli (16 February 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a French Gaullist politician and businessman.

Hervé Gaymard (born 31 May 1960 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Savoie) is a French politician and a member of UMP conservative party.

He was deputy of his father's département of the Loiret from 1879 till 1885, deputy from 1885, five times president of the Budget Commission, minister of finance (1895–1898) and vice-president of the chamber (1898–1902), and again finance minister in the Briand Cabinet, 1909.

Edmond Alphandéry (born 2 September 1943 in Avignon, Vaucluse) is a French politician.

Jean-Élie Gautier (6 October 1781 – 30 January 1858) was a French politician who was briefly Minister of Finance in 1839.

Jean Lacave-Laplagne (12 August 1795 – 14 May 1849) was a French magistrate and politician.

Joseph Dominique, baron Louis (13 November 1755 – 26 August 1837), French statesman and financier, was born at Toul (Meurthe).

Abel Servien was born at the château of Biviers, near Grenoble, the son of Antoine Servien, procurator-generalof the estates of Dauphiné.

Joseph Marie Philippe Thierry (2 March 1857 – 22 September 1918) was a French lawyer and politician.

Claude Bouthillier, Sieur de Fouilletourte (1581 – 13 March 1652), French statesman, began his professional life as an advocate.

Jean-Pierre Fourcade (born 18 October 1929 in Marmande, Lot-et-Garonne) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France.

Francis Mer (born 25 May 1939, in Pau) is a French businessman, industrialist and politician.

Jean du Thiers, seigneur de Beauvoir (died 1559) was Minister of Finance for Henry II of France, and a Secretary of State.

Louis-Lucien Klotz (11 January 1868 – 15 June 1930) was a French journalist and politician.

Pierre Cathala (1888 – 1947) was a French politician.

Yves Bouthillier (1901-1977) was a French politician.

Pierre Magne (3 December 1806 – 17 February 1879) was a lawyer and French politician.

Louis Loucheur (12 August 1872 in Roubaix, Nord – 22 November 1931 in Paris) was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.

Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq (2 September 1889 – 9 November 1944) was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.

Henri de Schomberg, Comte de Nanteuil (1575 – 17 November 1632), was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIII.

Michel Goudchaux (18 March 1797 – 27 December 1862) was a French banker and politician who was twice Minister of Finance during the French Second Republic.

He was born in Paris.

Jean Moreau de Séchelles (10 May 1690 – 31 December 1761) was a French official and politician.

Anatole de Monzie (22 November 1876, Bazas, Gironde – 11 January 1947, Paris) was a French administrator, encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie française), political figure and scholar.

Ariste Jacques Trouvé-Chauvel (8 November 1805 – 14 October 1883) was a French businessman, banker and politician.

He was born in Étouteville-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime) and died in Rouen.

Étienne de Silhouette (5 July 1709 – 20 January 1767) was a French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.

Michel Particelli d'Émery, (6 June 1596 in Lyon – 25 May 1650 in Paris), was the son of a banker in Lyon, France, originally from an Italian family of Lucca, Italy, who was the counsellor of Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu.

Charles Emile Etienne Dumont (31 August 1867 – 22 April 1939) was a left-leaning French politician who was Minister of Public Works in 1911 and Minister of Finance in 1913.

Charles de La Porte (1602, Paris – 8 February 1664, Paris) was a French nobleman and general.

Charles de Lasteyrie (1877-1936) was a French banker and politician.

Christian Sautter (born 9 April 1940) is a French politician.

Christophe André Jean de Chabrol de Crouzol (16 November 1771 – 7 October 1836) was a French politician who served in the administration of Napoleon, then adhered to the Bourbon Restoration in 1814.

Antoine Claude Nicolas Valdec de Lessart (25 January 1741, Château de Mongenan, Portets, near Bordeaux – 9 September 1792, Versailles ) was a French politician.

Claude de Bullion (13 October 1569 – 22 December 1640) was a French aristocrat and politician who served as a Minister of Finance under Louis XIII from 1632 to 1640.

Clément Charles François de Laverdy (1723 – 24 November 1793) was a French statesman.

François-Xavier Joseph de Casabianca (27 June 1796 – 24 May 1881) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Minister of Finance and thenPresident of the Council of State in the government of Louis Napoleon.

François Marie Peyrenc de Moras (11 August 1718 – 3 May 1771) was a senior French politician.

Born in Bastia, Corsica to Antoine-Jourdan Piétri, a lawyer and préfecture councilman, and Clorinde Gavini, the daughter of a French National Assembly member.

Guillaume-Charles Faipoult (Formally Guillaume-Charles, chevalier Faipoult de Maisoncelle; 4 December 1752 – 8 October 1817) was a French aristocrat, soldier and politician who was Minister of Finance during the French Revolution.

Henry Frédéric Chéron (11 May 1867 – 14 April 1936) was a French lawyer and politician who became active in local politics in the Calvados department of Normandy while still a young man, and always maintained his roots in Normandy.

Louis-Emmanuel Corvetto (12 July 1756 – 21 May 1821) was a Genoese lawyer who supported the French Revolution, became a leading politician under the First French Empire and was a successful Minister of Finance at the start of the Bourbon Restoration.

Louis Germain-Martin (7 November 1872, Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire – 4 October 1948, Paris) was an Independent Radical French politician.

Louis Phélypeaux (29 March 1643 – 22 December 1727), marquis de Phélypeaux (1667), comte de Maurepas (1687), comte de Pontchartrain (1699), known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician.

Lucien Lamoureux (16 September 1888, Viplaix – 5 August 1970, Creuzier-le-Vieux) was a French politician.

André Philip (28 June 1902 – 5 July 1970) was a SFIO member who served as an Interior Minister for the Free French during the Second World War.

Michel de Marillac (October 1563 in Paris – 7 August 1632 in Château de Châteaudun) was a French jurist and counsellor at the court of Louis XIII of France, one of the leading dévots.

He was born at Autun.

Pierre Sylvain Dumon (14 February 1797 – 24 February 1870) was a French politician who was a deputy from 1831 to 1848, and Minister of Finance in the last years of the July Monarchy.

Pomponne de Bellièvre (1529 – 5 September 1607) was a French statesman, chancellor of France (1599–1605).

Achille Fould (17 November 1800 – 5 October 1867) was a French financier and politician.

Raoul Adolphe Péret (29 November 1870 – 22 July 1942) was a French lawyer and politician.

René Renoult (29 August 1867, Paris – 30 April 1946, Paris) was a French Minister and lawyer.

René de Longueil, marquis (1658) de Maisons (1596–1677), le président de Maisons, was Surintendant des Finances under Louis XIII.

Robert Buron (27 February 1910 – 28 April 1973) was a French politician and Minister of Finance from 20 January 1955 to 23 February 1955 and Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Tourism during Charles de Gaulle's third term from 9 June 1958 to 8 January 1959.

Robert Lacoste (5 July 1898 – 8 March 1989) was a French politician.

Jean Arthuis (born 7 October 1944 in Saint-Martin-du-Bois, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician and member of the Senate of France.