The Rulers from years 840-2000 of France

France developed out of the Frankish Kingdoms, as well as even more out of the declining Carolingian Empire and Monarch’s

Later Carolingian Transition-
814 – 840 Louis I (not a king of ‘France’)
840 – 877 Charles II (the Bald)
877 – 879 Louis II (the Stammerer)
879 – 882 Louis III (joint with Carloman below)
879 – 884 Carloman (joint with Louis III above, until 882)
884 – 888 Charles the Fat
888 – 898 Eudes (also Odo) of Paris (non-Carolingian)
898 – 922 Charles III (the Simple)
922 – 923 Robert I (non-Carolingian)
923 – 936 Raoul (also Rudolf, non-Carolingian)
936 – 954 Louis IV (d’Outremer or The Foreigner)
954 – 986 Lothar (also Lothaire)
986 – 987 Louis V (the Do-Nothing)

Capetian Dynasty-
987 – 996 Hugh Capet
996 – 1031 Robert II (the Pious)
1031 – 1060 Henry I
1060 – 1108 Philip I
1108 – 1137 Louis VI (the Fat)
1137 – 1180 Louis VII (the Young)
1180 – 1223 Philip II Augustus
1223 – 1226 Louis VIII (the Lion)
1226 – 1270 Louis IX (St. Louis)
1270 – 1285 Philip III (the Bold)
1285 – 1314 Philip IV (the Fair)
1314 – 1316 Louis X (the Stubborn)
1316 – John I
1316 – 1322 Philip V (the Tall)
1322 – 1328 Charles IV (the Fair)

Valois Dynasty-
1328 – 1350 Philip VI
1350 – 1364 John II (the Good)
1364 – 1380 Charles V (the Wise)
1380 – 1422 Charles VI (the Mad, Well-Beloved, or Foolish)
1422 – 1461 Charles VII (the Well-Served or Victorious)
1461 – 1483 Louis XI (the Spider)
1483 – 1498 Charles VIII (Father of his People)
1498 – 1515 Louis XII
1515 – 1547 Francis I
1547 – 1559 Henry II
1559 – 1560 Francis II
1560 – 1574 Charles IX
1574 – 1589 Henry III

Bourbon Dynasty-
1589 – 1610 Henry IV
1610 – 1643 Louis XIII
1643 – 1715 Louis XIV (the Sun King)
1715 – 1774 Louis XV
1774 – 1792 Louis XVI

First Republic-
1792 – 1795 National Convention
1795 – 1799 Directory (Directors)
1795 – 99 Paul François Jean Nicolas de Barras
1795 – 99 Jean-François Reubell
1795 – 99 Louis Marie La Revellíere-Lépeaux
1795 – 97 Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot
1795 – 97 Etienne Le Tourneur
1797 François Marquis de Barthélemy
1797 – 99 Philippe Antoine Merlin de Douai
1797 – 98 François de Neufchâteau
1798 – 99 Jean Baptiste Comte de Treilhard
1799 Emmanuel Joseph Comte de Sieyés
1799 Roger Comte de Ducos
1799 Jean François Auguste Moulins
1799 Louis Gohier
1799 – 1804 Consulate
1st Consul: 1799 – 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte
2nd Consul: 1799 Emmanuel Joseph Comte de Sieyés,
1799 – 1804 Jean-Jacques Régis Cambacérès
3rd Consul: 1799 – 1799 Pierre-Roger Ducos
1799 – 1804 Charles François Lebrun

First Empire (Emperors)-
1804 – 1814 Napoleon I
1814 – 1815 Louis XVIII (king)
1815 – Napoleon I (2nd time)

Bourbons (Restored)-
1814 – 1824 Louis XVIII
1824 – 1830 Charles X

Orleans-
1830 – 1848 Louis Philippe

Second Republic (Presidents)
1848 – Louis Eugéne Cavaignac
1848 – 1852 Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III)

Second Empire (Emperors)
1852 – 1870 (Louis) Napoleon III

Third Republic (Presidents)-
1870 – 1871 Louis Jules Trochu (provisional)
1871 – 1873 Adolphe Thiers
1873 – 1879 Patrice de MacMahon
1879 – 1887 Jules Grévy
1887 – 1894 Sadi Carnot
1894 – 1895 Jean Casimir-Périer
1895 – 1899 Félix Faure
1899 – 1906 Emile Loubet
1906 – 1913 Armand Fallières
1913 – 1920 Raymond Poincaré
1920 – Paul Deschanel
1920 – 1924 Alexandre Millerand
1924 – 1931 Gaston Doumergue
1931 – 1932 Paul Doumer
1932 – 1940 Albert Lebrun

Vichy Government (Chief of State)-
1940 – 1944 Henri Philippe Petain

Provisional Government (Presidents)-
1944 – 1946 Charles de Gaulle
1946 – Félix Gouin
1946 – Georges Bidault
1946 – Leon Blum

Fourth Republic (Presidents)-
1947 – 1954 Vincent Auriol
1954 – 1959 René Coty

Fifth Republic (Presidents)-
1959 – 1969 Charles de Gaulle
1969 – 1974 Georges Pompidou
1974 – 1981 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
1981 – 1995 François Mitterand
1995 – Jacques Chirac