List of Presidents of the French National Assembly

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This page lists Presidents of the Lower Chamber (or only chamber, as the case may be) of the French parliament. The National Constituent Assembly was created in 1789 out of the Estates-General. It, and the revolutionary legislative assemblies that followed - the Legislative Assembly (1791-1792) and the National Convention (1792-1795), had a quickly rotating Presidency. With the establishment of the Directory in 1795, there were two chambers of the French legislature. The lower, the Council of Five Hundred, also had a quickly rotating chairmanship. Under Napoleon I, the Legislative Corps had all authority to actually enact laws, but was essentially a rubberstamp body, lacking the power to debate legislation. With the restoration of the monarchy, a bicameral system was restored, with a Chamber of Peers and a Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies, for the first time, had presidents elected for a substantial period of time.

With the revolution of 1848, the monarchical assemblies were dissolved and replaced again with a unicameral National Assembly, which Napoleon III replaced with a new version of his uncle's Legislative Corps. With the establishment of the Third Republic, the name of Chamber of Deputies was restored, and after 1876 was joined by a Senate as an upper house. The Chamber of Deputies was renamed the National Assembly in the constitution of the Fourth Republic, and is still known as that.

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, 1789-1791

Presidents of the Legislative Assembly, 1791-1792

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Presidents of the National Convention, 1792-1795

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Presidents of the Council of Five Hundred, 1795-1799

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Presidents of the Legislative Corps, 1800-1814

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Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1814-1815

Presidents of the Chamber of Representatives, 1815

Presidents of the Chamber of Départements' Deputies, 1815-1830

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1830-1848

Presidents of the National Constituent Assembly, 1848-1849

Presidents of the National Legislative Assembly, 1849-1852

Presidents of the Legislative Corps, 1852-1870

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, 1871-1940

Presidents of the Consultative Assembly (Free French), 1943-1945

List of Presidents of the Constituent National Assembly, 1945-1946

Presidents of the National Assembly, 1946-present