The military governor of Paris is a post within the French Army. He commands the garrison of Paris and represents all the military based in Paris at high state occasions. He is also responsible (subordinate to the President of France) for organizing major national ceremonies such as the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Élysées.

The foundation of the post is blurred, but it has subsequently evolved in two phases. Under the Ancien Régime, its role was limited in comparison to his colleagues in the provinces, who represented the King of France 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 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: 1411 Waléran III de Luxembourg: 1411–1413 Jean II de Luxembourg: 1418–1420 Marshal Jean de La Baume: 1422–142. Jean de Villiers: 1429–14.. Philippe de Ternant: 14..–14.. Jacques de Villiers: 1461 Charles d'Artois, 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, Count of Dammartin: 1472–147. , Seigneur de Clérieux: 1478–14.. Louis d'Orléans: 1483–1485 Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin: 1485–1488 Gilbert de Montpensier: 14..–1494 Charles II d'Amboise: 1493–1496 Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, Lord of Barbezieux: 15..–15.. Marshal Paul de Thermes: 1559–1562 Marshal Charles de Cossé: 1562–1563 Marshal François de Montmorency: 15..–1572 René de Villequier, Viscount of La Guerche: 1580 François d'O: 158.–1589 Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie: 1589–1590 Jean-Francois de Faudoas: 1590–1594 Charles II de Cossé, Marshal of the league: 1594 François d'O: 1594 Charles du Plessis: 1616 Hercule de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon: 1643–16.. Marshal François de L'Hospital: 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, Duke of Poix: 1676–1687 Léon Potier, Duke of Gesvres: 1687–1704 François-Bernard Potier, 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

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: 1795–1796 General Jacques Maurice Hatry: 1796–1797 General Pierre Augereau: 1797 General Louis Lemoine: 1797 General Jean-François Moulin: 1797–1798 General Joseph Gilot: 1798–1799 General Barthélemy Catherine Joubert: 1799 General Jean-Antoine Marbot: 1799 General François Joseph Lefebvre: 1799–1800 General Édouard Mortier: 1800–1803 General Jean-Andoche Junot: 1803–1804

Military governors of Paris after the French Revolution

General Joachim Murat: 1804–1805Tulard, Jean. Murat: Du maréchal d'Empire au roi de Naples. Paris: Marabout, 1983, 68–69. Prince Louis Bonaparte: 1805–1806 Marshal Joachim Murat: 1806 General Jean-Andoche Junot: 1806–1807 General Pierre-Augustin Hulin: 1807–1814 General Louis de Rochechouart: 1814 General Louis Sébastien Grundler: May 1814–January 1815 General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1815 General Pierre-Augustin Hulin: 1815 (Hundred Days) Marshal André Masséna: July 1815 General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: July–September 1815 General Hyacinthe Despinoy: 1815–1816 Marshal Catherine Dominique de Pérignon: 1816–1818 General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1819–1821 Marshal Auguste de Marmont: 1821–1830 General Pierre-Claude Pajol: 1830–1842 General Tiburce Sébastiani: 1842–1848 General Nicolas Changarnier: 1848–1851 General Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers: 1851 Marshal Bernard Pierre Magnan: 1851–1865 Marshal François Certain de Canrobert: 1865–1870 Marshal Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers: 1870 General Louis-Jules Trochu: 1870–1871 General Joseph Vinoy: 1871 General Paul de Ladmirault: 1871–1878 General Édouard Aymard: 1878–1880 General Justin Clinchant: 1880–1881 General Alphonse-Théodore Lecointe: 1882–1884 Divisional general Félix-Gustave Saussier: 1884–1898 General Émile Zurlinden: 1898–1899 General Joseph Brugère: 1899–1900 Divisional general Georges-Auguste Florentin: 1900–1901 General Paul-Vincent Faure-Biguet: 1901–1903 General Jean Dessirier: 1903–1906 General Jean-Baptiste Dalstein: 1906–1910 General Michel-Joseph Maunoury: 1910–1912 General Victor-Constant Michel: 1912–1914 Général de division Joseph Gallieni: 1914–1915 General Michel-Joseph Maunoury: 1915–1916 General Augustin Dubail: 1916–1918 General Adolphe Guillaumat: 1918 General Charles Emile Moinier: 1918–1919 General Pierre Berdoulat: 1919–1923 General Henri Gouraud: 1923–1937 General Gaston Billotte: 1937–1939 General Pierre Héring: 1939–1940 General Henri Dentz: June 1940

Military governors of Paris under the German occupation Under the German occupation of France, Paris had at least three German military governors:

General Otto von Stülpnagel General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, cousin of the former General Dietrich von Choltitz

Military governors of Paris since 1944

General Philippe Leclerc: 1944 General Marie-Pierre Kœnig: 1944–1945 General Paul Legentilhomme: 1945–1947 Army general René Chouteau: 16 January 1947–March 1953 Army general Henri Zeller: 1953–1957 General Louis-Constant Morlière: 1957–1958 General Pierre Garbay: 1958–1959 General Raoul Salan: 1959–1960 Army general Maurice Gazin: 1960 Army general André Demetz: 1960–1962 General Louis Dodelier: 1962–1965 General Philippe de Camas: 1965–1968 General André Meltz: 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: 1981–1982 Army general Alban Barthez: 1 September 1982 Army corps general Michel Fennebresque: 1984 Army general Hervé Navereau: 14 March 1987 Army general Daniel Valéry: 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: 1 November 2002 Army corps general Xavier de Zuchowicz: 1 August 2005 Army general Bruno Dary: 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

See also Governor of Les Invalides

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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