List of interior ministers of France explained

This is a list of ministers of the interior of France (French: Ministres de l'Intérieur).

Ministers of the interior (1790–present)

MinisterBeganEnded
François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest7 August 179025 January 1791
Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart25 January 179129 November 1791
Bon-Claude Cahier de Gerville29 November 179124 March 1792
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière24 March 179213 June 1792
Jacques Augustin Mourgue13 June 179218 June 1792
Antoine René, marquis de Terrier de Monciel18 June 179217 July 1792
Étienne Louis Hector Dejoly17 July 179221 July 1792
Clément Felix Champion de Villeneuve21 July 179210 August 1792
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière10 August 179223 January 1793
Dominique Joseph Garat23 January 179320 August 1793
Jules-François Paré20 August 17935 April 1794
Jean Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon5 April 17948 April 1794
Martial Joseph Armand Herman8 April 179420 April 1794
none20 April 17943 November 1795
Pierre Bénézech3 November 179515 July 1797
Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau15 July 179713 September 1797
François Sébastien Letourneux13 September 179717 June 1798
Nicolas-Louis François de Neufchâteau17 June 179822 June 1799
Nicolas Marie Quinette22 June 179910 November 1799
Pierre-Simon Laplace12 November 179925 December 1799
Lucien Bonaparte25 December 17997 November 1800
Jean-Antoine Chaptal7 November 18007 August 1804
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny7 August 18049 August 1807
Emmanuel Crétet, comte de Champmol9 August 180729 June 1809
Joseph Fouché, duc d'Otrante29 June 18091 October 1809
Jean-Pierre Bachasson, comte de Montalivet1 October 18091 April 1814
Jacques, comte Beugnot3 April 181413 May 1814
François Xavier de Montesquiou-Fezensac13 May 181420 March 1815
Lazare, comte Carnot20 March 181522 June 1815
Claude Carnot-Feulin22 June 18157 July 1815
Étienne-Denis, baron Pasquier7 July 181526 September 1815
Vincent-Marie Viénot, comte de Vaublanc26 September 18157 May 1816
Joseph, vicomte Lainé7 May 181629 December 1818
Élie, comte Decazes29 December 181820 February 1820
Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon20 February 182014 December 1821
Jacques Joseph Guillaume Pierre, comte de Corbière14 December 18214 January 1828
Jean-Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac4 January 18288 August 1829
François Régis de La Bourdonnaye, comte de La Bretèche8 August 182918 November 1829
Guillaume-Isidore Baron de Montbel18 November 182919 May 1830
Pierre-Denis, Comte de Peyronnet19 May 183031 July 1830
Victor, duc de Broglie31 July 18301 August 1830
François Guizot1 August 18302 November 1830
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet2 November 183013 March 1831
Casimir Pierre Perier13 March 183127 April 1832
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet27 April 183211 October 1832
Adolphe Thiers11 October 183231 December 1832
Antoine, comte d'Argout31 December 18324 April 1834
Adolphe Thiers4 April 183410 November 1834
Hugues Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano10 November 183418 November 1834
Adolphe Thiers18 November 183422 February 1836
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet22 February 18366 September 1836
Adrien de Gasparin6 September 183615 April 1837
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet15 April 183731 March 1839
Adrien de Gasparin31 March 183912 May 1839
Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel12 May 18391 March 1840
Charles, comte de Rémusat1 March 184029 October 1840
Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel29 October 184024 February 1848
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin24 February 184811 May 1848
Adrien Recurt11 May 184828 June 1848
Antoine Sénard28 June 184813 October 1848
Jules Armand Dufaure13 October 184820 December 1848
Léon de Malleville20 December 184829 December 1848
Léon Faucher29 December 18482 June 1849
Jules Armand Dufaure2 June 184931 October 1849
Ferdinand Barrot31 October 184915 March 1850
Jules Baroche15 March 185024 January 1851
Claude-Marius Vaïsse24 January 185110 April 1851
Léon Faucher10 April 185126 October 1851
René de Thorigny26 October 18512 December 1851
Charles Auguste, duc de Morny2 December 185122 January 1852
Victor Fialin, comte de Persigny22 January 185223 June 1854
Adolphe Billault23 June 18547 February 1858
Charles Esprit Espinasse7 February 185814 June 1858
Claude Alphonse Delangle14 June 18585 May 1859
Ernest Arrighi de Casanova5 May 18591 November 1859
Adolphe Billault1 November 18595 December 1860
Victor Fialin, comte de Persigny5 December 186023 June 1863
Paul Boudet23 June 186328 March 1865
Charles, marquis de La Valette28 March 186513 November 1867
Ernest Pinard13 November 186717 December 1868
Adolphe Forcade La Roquette17 December 18682 January 1870
Jean-Pierre Napoléon Eugène Chevandier de Valdrôme2 January 187018 August 1870
Julien-Théophile-Henri Chevreau18 August 18704 September 1870
Léon Gambetta4 September 18706 February 1871
Emmanuel Arago6 February 187119 February 1871
Ernest Picard19 February 18715 June 1871
Félix Lambrecht5 June 18718 October 1871
Auguste Casimir-Perier11 October 18716 February 1872
Victor Lefranc6 February 18727 December 1872
Eugène de Goulard7 December 187218 May 1873
Auguste Casimir-Perier18 May 187325 May 1873
Charles Beulé25 May 187326 November 1873
Albert, duc de Broglie26 November 187322 May 1874
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou22 May 187420 July 1874
François, baron de Chabaud-Latour20 July 187410 March 1875
Louis Buffet10 March 187523 February 1876
Jules Armand Dufaure23 February 18769 March 1876
Amable Richard9 March 187611 May 1876
Émile de Marcère15 May 187612 December 1876
Jules Simon12 December 187617 May 1877
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou17 May 187723 November 1877
Charles Welche23 November 187713 December 1877
Émile de Marcère13 December 18774 March 1879
Charles Lepère4 March 187917 May 1880
Ernest Constans17 May 188014 November 1881
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau14 November 188130 January 1882
René Goblet30 January 18827 August 1882
Armand Fallières7 August 188221 February 1883
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau21 February 18836 April 1885
François Allain-Targé6 April 18857 January 1886
Ferdinand Sarrien7 January 188611 December 1886
René Goblet11 December 188630 May 1877
Armand Fallières30 May 188712 December 1887
Ferdinand Sarrien12 December 18873 April 1888
Charles Floquet3 April 188822 February 1889
Ernest Constans22 February 18891 March 1890
Léon Bourgeois1 March 189017 March 1890
Ernest Constans17 March 189027 February 1892
Émile Loubet27 February 189211 January 1893
Alexandre Ribot11 January 18934 April 1893
Charles Dupuy4 April 18933 December 1893
David Raynal3 December 189330 May 1894
Charles Dupuy30 May 189426 January 1895
Georges Leygues26 January 18951 November 1895
Léon Bourgeois1 November 189528 March 1896
Ferdinand Sarrien30 March 189629 April 1896
Louis Barthou29 April 189628 June 1898
Henri Brisson28 June 18981 November 1898
Charles Dupuy1 November 189822 June 1899
René Waldeck-Rousseau22 June 18997 June 1902
Émile Combes7 June 190224 January 1905
Eugène Étienne24 January 190512 November 1905
Fernand Dubief12 November 190514 March 1906
Georges Clemenceau14 March 190624 July 1909
Aristide Briand24 July 19092 March 1911
Ernest Monis2 March 191127 June 1911
Joseph Caillaux27 June 191114 January 1912
Théodore Steeg14 January 191221 January 1913
Aristide Briand21 January 191322 March 1913
Louis Lucien Klotz22 March 19139 December 1913
René Renoult9 December 191317 March 1914
Louis Malvy17 March 19149 June 1914
Paul Peytral9 June 191413 June 1914
Louis Malvy13 June 191431 August 1917
Théodore Steeg1 September 191716 November 1917
Jules Pams16 November 191720 January 1920
Théodore Steeg20 January 192016 January 1921
Pierre Marraud16 January 192115 January 1922
Maurice Maunoury15 January 192229 March 1924
Justin de Selves29 March 192414 June 1924
Camille Chautemps14 June 192417 April 1925
Abraham Schrameck17 April 192522 November 1925
Camille Chautemps28 November 19259 March 1926
Louis Malvy9 March 192610 April 1926
Jean Durand10 April 192619 July 1926
Camille Chautemps19 July 192623 July 1926
Albert Sarraut23 July 192611 November 1928
André Tardieu11 November 192821 February 1930
Camille Chautemps21 February 19302 March 1930
André Tardieu2 March 193013 December 1930
Georges Leygues13 December 193027 January 1931
Pierre Laval27 January 193114 January 1932
Pierre Cathala14 January 193220 February 1932
Albert Mahieu20 February 19323 June 1932
Camille Chautemps3 June 193230 January 1934
Eugène Frot30 January 19349 February 1934
Albert Sarraut9 February 193413 October 1934
Paul Marchandeau13 October 19348 November 1934
Marcel Régnier8 November 19341 June 1935
Fernand Bouisson1 June 19357 June 1935
Joseph Paganon7 June 193524 January 1936
Albert Sarraut24 January 19364 June 1936
Roger Salengro4 June 193618 November 1936
Marx Dormoy24 November 193618 January 1938
Albert Sarraut18 January 193813 March 1938
Marx Dormoy13 March 193810 April 1938
Albert Sarraut10 April 193821 March 1940
Henri Roy21 March 194018 May 1940
Georges Mandel18 May 194016 June 1940
Charles Pomaret16 June 194026 June 1940
Adrien Marquet27 June 19406 September 1940
Marcel Peyrouton6 September 194014 February 1941
François Darlan14 February 194118 July 1941
Pierre Pucheu18 July 194118 April 1942
Pierre Laval18 April 194219 August 1944
Free French Commissioners
André Diethelm24 September 194128 July 1942
André Philip28 July 19429 November 1943
Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie9 November 194310 September 1944
Ministers
Adrien Tixier10 September 194426 January 1946
André Le Troquer26 January 194624 June 1946
Édouard Depreux24 June 194624 November 1947
Jules Moch24 November 19477 February 1950
Henri Queuille7 February 195011 August 1951
Charles Brune11 August 195128 June 1953
Léon Martinaud-Deplat28 June 195319 June 1954
François Mitterrand19 June 195423 February 1955
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury23 February 19551 December 1955
Edgar Faure1 December 19551 February 1956
Jean Gilbert-Jules1 February 19566 November 1957
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury6 November 195714 May 1958
Maurice Faure14 May 195817 May 1958
Jules Moch17 May 19581 June 1958
Émile Pelletier1 June 19588 January 1959
Jean Berthoin8 January 195928 May 1959
Pierre Chatenet28 May 19596 May 1961
Roger Frey6 May 19616 April 1967
Christian Fouchet6 April 196730 May 1968
Raymond Marcellin30 May 196827 February 1974
Jacques Chirac27 February 197428 May 1974
Michel Poniatowski28 May 197430 March 1977
Christian Bonnet30 March 197722 May 1981
Gaston Defferre22 May 198119 July 1984
Pierre Joxe19 July 198420 March 1986
Charles Pasqua20 March 198612 May 1988
Pierre Joxe12 May 198829 January 1991
Philippe Marchand29 January 19912 April 1992
Paul Quilès2 April 199229 March 1993
Charles Pasqua29 March 199318 May 1995
Jean-Louis Debré18 May 19954 June 1997
Jean-Pierre Chevènement4 June 199729 August 2000
Daniel Vaillant29 August 20007 May 2002
Nicolas Sarkozy7 May 200231 March 2004
Dominique de Villepin31 March 200431 May 2005
Nicolas Sarkozy31 May 200526 March 2007
François Baroin26 March 200715 May 2007
Michèle Alliot-Marie18 May 200723 June 2009
Brice Hortefeux23 June 200927 February 2011
Claude Guéant27 February 201116 May 2012
Manuel Valls16 May 201231 March 2014
Bernard Cazeneuve31 March 20146 December 2016
Bruno Le Roux6 December 201621 March 2017
Matthias Fekl21 March 201717 May 2017
Gérard Collomb17 May 20173 October 2018
Édouard Philippe3 October 201816 October 2018
Christophe Castaner16 October 20186 July 2020
Gérald Darmanin6 July 2020Present

See also