This is a list of ministers of finance of France, including the equivalent positions of Superintendent of Finances and Controller-General of Finances during the Ancien Régime. The position of Superintendent of Finances was abolished following the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet; his powers were transferred to First Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who would become ex officio Controller-General of Finances four years later after the elevation of the office.
Superintendents of Finances, 1518–1661 Superintendent Term start Term endJacques de Beaune, lord de Semblançay15181524Philibert Babou15241544Jean du Thiers, lord de Beauregard15441546Claude d'Annebault15461552André Guillart15521556Jean d'Avançon15561559Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine15591560Artus de Cossé-Brissac and Louis d'Ongnyes, comte de Chaulnes15611567René de Birague15681570Pomponne de Bellièvre15741588François d'O15881594Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully15981611Pierre Jeannin16141619Henri de Schomberg, comte de Nanteuil16191622Charles, marquis de La Vieuville16231624Jean Bochart de Champigny and Michel de Marillac16241626Antoine Coëffier de Ruzé, marquis d'Effiat16261632Claude de Bullion and Claude Bouthillier16321640Claude Bouthillier16401643Nicolas de Bailleul and Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux16431647Michel Particelli d'Émery16471648Armand-Charles de La Porte, maréchal-duc de La Meilleraye16481649Michel Particelli d'Émery and Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux16491650René de Longueil, marquis de Maisons16501651Charles, duc de La Vieuville16511653Abel Servien and Nicolas Fouquet3 February 165316 February 1659Nicolas Fouquet16 February 16594 May 1661
Controller-General of Finances, 1661–1791 Controller-General Term start Term endJean-Baptiste Colbert12 December 16656 September 1683Claude Le Pelletier16831689Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain20 September 16891699Michel Chamillart5 September 169920 February 1708Nicolas Desmarets20 February 170815 September 1715Adrien Maurice, duc de Noailles (President of the Finances Council)1 October 171528 January 1718Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force (vice-president of the Finances Council)28 January 17185 January 1720Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721) (President of the Finances Council)28 January 17185 January 1720John Law5 January 172028 May 1720Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts (Commissioner of Finance)28 May 172011 December 1720Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye11 December 172021 April 1722Charles Gaspard Dodun21 April 172214 June 1726Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts14 June 172619 March 1730Philibert Orry19 March 17305 December 1745Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville6 December 174530 July 1754Jean Moreau de Séchelles30 July 175424 April 1756François Marie Peyrenc de Moras24 April 175625 August 1757Jean de Boullonges25 August 17574 March 1759Étienne de Silhouette4 March 175921 November 1759Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin23 November 175914 December 1763Clément Charles François de Laverdy14 December 176320 September 1768Étienne Maynon d'Invault22 September 176819 December 1769Joseph Marie Terray22 December 176924 August 1774Anne Robert Jacques Turgot24 August 177412 May 1776Jean Étienne Bernard Clugny de Nuits21 May 177618 October 1776Louis-Gabriel Taboureau des Réaux21 October 177629 June 1777Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)29 June 177719 May 1781Jean-François Joly de Fleury21 May 178129 March 1783Henri François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson29 March 17831 November 1783Charles Alexandre de Calonne3 November 17839 April 1787Michel Bouvard de Fourqueux10 April 17871 May 1787Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (President of the Royal Council of Finances)1 May 178725 August 1788Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)26 August 178811 July 1789Joseph Foullon de Doué13 July 178916 July 1789Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)16 July 17894 September 1790Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert4 September 17904 December 1790Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart4 December 179027 April 1791
Ministers of Finance, 1791–1944 Minister Term start Term endClaude Antoine Valdec de Lessart27 April 179129 May 1791Louis Hardouin Tarbé29 May 179124 March 1792Étienne Clavière24 March 179213 June 1792Antoine Duranthon13 June 179218 June 1792Jules Émile François Hervé de Beaulieu18 June 179229 July 1792Joseph Delaville-Leroulx29 July 179210 August 1792Étienne Clavière10 August 179213 June 1793Louis Grégoire Des Champs des Tournelles13 June 179320 April 179420 April 17948 November 1795Guillaume-Charles Faipoult8 November 179514 February 1796Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret14 February 179620 July 1799Robert Lindet20 July 179910 November 1799Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, duc de Gaète10 November 17991 April 1814Joseph Dominique, baron Louis3 April 181420 March 1815Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, duc de Gaète20 March 18157 July 1815Joseph Dominique, baron Louis9 July 181526 September 1815Louis Emmanuel, comte Corvetto26 September 18157 December 1818Antoine Roy7 December 181829 December 1818Joseph Dominique, baron Louis29 December 181819 November 1819Antoine Roy19 November 181914 December 1821Jean-Baptiste de Villèle14 December 18214 January 1828Antoine, comte Roy4 January 18288 August 1829Christophe, comte de Chabrol de Crouzol8 August 182919 May 1830Guillaume Isidore, comte de Montbel19 May 183031 July 1830Joseph Dominique, baron Louis31 July 18302 November 1830Jacques Laffitte2 November 183013 March 1831Joseph Dominique, baron Louis13 March 183111 October 1832Jean-Georges Humann11 October 183210 November 1834Hippolyte Passy10 November 183418 November 1834Jean-Georges Humann18 November 183418 January 1836Antoine, comte d'Argout18 January 18366 September 1836Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel6 September 183615 April 1837Jean Pierre Joseph Lacave-Laplagne15 April 183731 March 1839Jean-Élie Gautier31 March 183912 May 1839Hippolyte Passy12 May 18391 March 1840Privat Joseph Claramont, comte Pelet de la Lozère1 March 184029 October 1840Jean-Georges Humann29 October 184025 April 1842Jean Pierre Joseph Lacave-Laplagne25 April 18429 May 1847Pierre Sylvain Dumon9 May 184724 February 1848Michel Goudchaux24 February 18485 March 1848Louis Antoine Garnier-Pagès5 March 184811 May 1848Charles Duclerc11 May 184828 June 1848Michel Goudchaux28 June 184825 October 1848Ariste Jacques Trouvé-Chauvel25 October 184820 December 1848Hippolyte Passy20 December 184831 October 1849Achille Fould31 October 184924 January 1851Charles Le Bègue de Germiny24 January 185110 April 1851Achille Fould10 April 185126 October 1851Antoine Blondel26 October 185123 November 1851François, comte de Casabianca23 November 18513 December 1851Achille Fould3 December 185122 January 1852Jean-Martial Bineau22 January 18523 February 1855Pierre Magne3 February 185526 November 1860Adolphe Forcade La Roquette26 November 186014 November 1861Achille Fould14 November 186120 January 1867Eugène Rouher20 January 186713 November 1867Pierre Magne13 November 18672 January 1870Louis Buffet2 January 187014 April 1870Émile Alexis Segris14 April 187010 August 1870Pierre Magne10 August 18704 September 1870Ernest Picard4 September 187019 February 1871Louis Buffet19 February 187125 February 1871Augustin Pouyer-Quertier25 February 187123 April 1872Eugène de Goulard23 April 18727 December 1872Léon Say7 December 187225 May 1873Pierre Magne25 May 187320 July 1874Pierre Mathieu-Bodet20 July 187410 March 1875Léon Say10 March 187517 May 1877Eugène Caillaux17 May 187723 November 1877François Dutilleul23 November 187713 December 1877Léon Say13 December 187728 December 1879Pierre Magnin28 December 187914 November 1881François Allain-Targé14 November 188130 January 1882Léon Say30 January 18827 August 1882Pierre Tirard7 August 18826 April 1885Jean Clamageran6 April 188516 April 1885Marie François Sadi Carnot16 April 188511 December 1886Albert Dauphin11 December 188630 May 1887Maurice Rouvier30 May 188712 December 1887Pierre Tirard12 December 18873 April 1888Paul Peytral3 April 188822 February 1889Maurice Rouvier22 February 188912 December 1892Pierre Tirard13 December 18924 April 1893Paul Peytral4 April 18933 December 1893Auguste Burdeau3 December 189330 May 1894Raymond Poincaré30 May 189426 January 1895Alexandre Ribot26 January 18951 November 1895Paul Doumer1 November 189529 April 1896Georges Cochery29 April 189628 June 1898Paul Peytral28 June 189822 June 1899Joseph Caillaux22 June 18997 June 1902Maurice Rouvier7 June 190217 June 1905Pierre Merlou17 June 190514 March 1906Raymond Poincaré14 March 190625 October 1906Joseph Caillaux25 October 190624 July 1909Georges Cochery24 July 19093 November 1910Louis Lucien Klotz3 November 19102 March 1911Joseph Caillaux2 March 191127 June 1911Louis Lucien Klotz27 June 191122 March 1913Charles Dumont22 March 19139 December 1913Joseph Caillaux9 December 191317 March 1914René Renoult17 March 19149 June 1914Étienne Clémentel9 June 191413 June 1914Joseph Noulens13 June 191426 August 1914Alexandre Ribot26 August 191420 March 1917Joseph Thierry20 March 191712 September 1917Louis Lucien Klotz12 September 191720 January 1920Frédéric François-Marsal20 January 192016 January 1921Paul Doumer16 January 192115 January 1922Charles de Lasteyrie15 January 192229 March 1924Frédéric François-Marsal29 March 192414 June 1924Étienne Clémentel14 June 19243 April 1925Anatole de Monzie3 April 192517 April 1925Joseph Caillaux17 April 192529 October 1925Paul Painlevé29 October 192528 November 1925Louis Loucheur28 November 192516 December 1925Paul Doumer16 December 19259 March 1926Raoul Péret9 March 192623 June 1926Joseph Caillaux23 June 192619 July 1926Anatole de Monzie19 July 192623 July 1926Raymond Poincaré23 July 192611 November 1928Henry Chéron11 November 192821 February 1930Charles Dumont21 February 19302 March 1930Paul Reynaud2 March 193013 December 1930Louis Germain-Martin13 December 193027 January 1931Pierre Étienne Flandin27 January 19313 June 1932Louis Germain-Martin3 June 193218 December 1932Henry Chéron18 December 193231 January 1933Georges Bonnet31 January 193330 January 1934François Piétri30 January 19344 February 1934Paul Marchandeau4 February 19349 February 1934Louis Germain-Martin9 February 19341 June 1935Joseph Caillaux1 June 19357 June 1935Marcel Régnier7 June 19354 June 1936Vincent Auriol4 June 193622 June 1937Georges Bonnet22 June 193718 January 1938Paul Marchandeau18 January 193813 March 1938Léon Blum13 March 193810 April 1938Paul Marchandeau10 April 19381 November 1938Paul Reynaud1 November 193821 March 1940Lucien Lamoureux21 March 19405 June 1940Yves Bouthillier5 June 194018 April 1942Pierre Cathala18 April 194219 August 1944
Free French Commissioners of Finance, 1941–1944 Commissioner Term start Term endRené Pleven24 September 194117 October 1942André Diethelm17 October 19427 June 1943Maurice Couve de Murville7 June 19439 November 1943Pierre Mendès-France9 November 19434 September 1944
Ministers of Finance, 1944–present