Général Hervé Navereau le 14 juillet 1989

The Military governor of Paris is a post within the

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. He commands the garrison of

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and represents all the military based in Paris at high state occasions. He is also responsible (subordinate to the

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) for organizing major national ceremonies such as the Bastille Day military parade down the

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. The foundation of the post is blurred, but it has subsequently evolved in two phases. Under the

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, its role was limited in comparison to his colleagues in the

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, who represented the

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in his absence, whereas in Paris the King was present. The post was dispensed with at the time of the

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before being re-established by

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

in 1804, when it was reinforced by becoming a military-command role.

List of governors

Military governors of Paris under the Ancien Régime

Michel Lasne - François de l'Hospital du Hallier

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: 1356–1357 *

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: 1411 *

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: 1411–1413 *

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: 1418–1420 * Maréchal

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: 1422–142. * Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: 1429–14.. * Philippe de Ternant: 14..–14.. * Jacques de Villiers de l'Isle Adam: 1461 * Charles d'Artois, comte d'Eu: 1465 *

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, baron des Landes et de Normanville: 1465–1467 *

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, comte de Brienne: 1467–1470 *

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, vicomte d'Aix: 14..–1472 *

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, comte de Dammartin: 1472–147. * Guillaume de Poitiers: 1478–14.. * Louis d'Orléans: 1483–1485 *

, comte de Dammartin: 1485–1488 *

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: 14..–1494 *

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: 1493–1496 *

Antoine de La Rochefoucauld Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, the second of this name, Seigneur de Chaumont-sur-Loire, served Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé as a knight (''chevalier de l'ordre du Roi'') and his chamberlain. On 7 October 1552, he married Cécile de Montmir ...

, sgr de Barbezieux: 15..–15.. * Maréchal

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: 1559–1562 * Maréchal

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: 1562–1563 * Maréchal François, duc de Montmorency: 15..–1572 * René de Villequier, vicomte de La Guerche: 1580 * François, marquis d'O: 158.–1589 * Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie-Nemours: 1589–1590 * Jean Francois de Faudoas, comte de Belin: 1590–1594 *

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, maréchal de la Ligue: 1594 * François, marquis d'O: 1594 * Charles du Plessis-Liancourt: 1616 *

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, duc de Montbazon: 1643–16.. * Maréchal François de L'Hospital: 1648–1657 * Maréchal de Camp Duc de Bournonville: 1657–1662 * Maréchal

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, marquis de Villequier: 1662–1669 * Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart: 1669–1675 * Charles III de Blanchefort-Créquy, duc de Poix: 1676–1687 * Léon Potier, duc de Gesvres: 1687–1704 * Duc de Tresmes: 1704–1739 * Bernard Potier, duc de Gesvres: 1739–1757 *

Marie Charles Louis d'Albert Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes (''Marie Charles Louis''; 24 April 1717 – 8 October 1771) was a French nobleman and member of the House of Albert. He was the fifth Duke of Luynes as well as Duke of Chevreuse. Early life Luynes wa ...

, duc de Chevreuse et de Luynes: 1757–1771 * Maréchal Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé, duc de Brissac: 1771–1780 * Maréchal de Camp Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, duc de Brissac: 1780–1791

Commandants généraux de la force armée à Paris

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* Général Louis Augustin comte d'Affry: 1791–1792 * Général Jacques de Menou, baron de Boussay: 1792–1794 * Général Jean Thierry: 1794–1795 * Général Jacques de Menou, baron de Boussay: 1795 * Général Paul, vicomte de Barras: 1795 * Général

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: 1795–1796 * Général

Jacques Maurice Hatry Jacques Maurice Hatry (Strasbourg, 12 February 1742 – Paris, 30 November 1802) was a French general. A colonel on the outbreak of the French Revolution, he rose to général de division in 1794 and fought with distinction in the armée du Nord ...

: 1796–1797 * Général Charles Pierre François Augereau: 1797 * Général Louis Lemoine: 1797 * Général Jean-François Moulin: 1797–1798 * Général Joseph Gilot: 1798–1799 * Général

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: 1799 * Général

Jean-Antoine Marbot Jean-Antoine Marbot ( , ; 7 December 1754 – 19 April 1800), also known to contemporaries as Antoine Marbot, was a French general and politician. He belongs to a family that has distinguished itself particularly in the career of arms, giving t ...

: 1799 * Général

François Joseph Lefebvre François Joseph Lefebvre ( , ; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), Duc de Dantzig, was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon. E ...

: 1799–1800 * Général

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: 1800–1803 * Général Jean Andoche Junot: 1803–1804

Military governors of Paris after the French Revolution

François Certain de Canrobert Versailles

* Général

Joachim Murat Joachim Murat ( , also , ; it, Gioacchino Murati; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the ...

: 1804–1805Tulard, Jean. Murat: Du maréchal d'Empire au roi de Naples. Paris: Marabout, 1983, 68–69. * Prince

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: 1805–1806 * Maréchal

: 1806 * Général Jean Andoche Junot: 1806–1807 * Général

Pierre-Augustin Hulin Pierre-Augustin Hulin (6 September 1758 – 9 January 1841) was a French general under Napoleon Bonaparte who took part in the storming of the Bastille, the trial of the Duke d'Enghien, and the foiling of the Malet coup. Early life Pier ...

: 1807–1814 * Général

Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart (14 September 1788, in Paris – 1858, in Jumilhac-le-Grand) was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the émigré, Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon ar ...

: 1814 * Général Louis, baron Grundler: May 1814–January 1815 * Général

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: 1815 (

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) * Maréchal

André Masséna André Masséna, Prince of Essling, Duke of Rivoli (born Andrea Massena; 6 May 1758 – 4 April 1817) was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.Donald D. Horward, ed., trans, annotated, The Fre ...

: July 1815 * Général

Nicolas Joseph Maison Nicolas Joseph Maison, 1st Marquis of Maison (19 December 1771 – 13 February 1840) was a Marshal of France and Minister of War.Hyacinthe François Joseph Despinoy Hyacinthe François Joseph Despinoy or Despinois (22 May 1764– 29 December 1848) became a First French Republic, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars, but Napoleon Bonaparte removed him from command. Afterward he held minor position ...

: 1815–1816 * Maréchal Catherine Dominique de Pérignon: 1816–1818 * Général

Nicolas Joseph Maison Nicolas Joseph Maison, 1st Marquis of Maison (19 December 1771 – 13 February 1840) was a Marshal of France and Minister of War.Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont (20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire and was awarded the title (french: duc de Raguse). In the Peninsular War Marmont succeede ...

: 1821–1830 * Général

Pierre Claude Pajol Claude-Pierre, Comte de Pajol (3 February 1772 – 20 March 1844), was a French cavalry general and political during and after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Early life He was born in Besançon, as the son of a lawyer. He was ...

: 1830–1842 * Général Tiburce Sébastiani: 1842–1848 * Général

Nicolas Changarnier Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier (26 April 1793 – 14 February 1877), French general, was born at Autun, Saône-et-Loire. Educated at Saint-Cyr, he served for a short time in the bodyguard of Louis XVIII, and entered the line as a lieute ...

: 1848–1851 * Général

Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers Louis-Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers (6 September 1795 – 6 June 1878), 1st Comte Baraguey d'Hilliers, was a Marshal of France and politician. Baraguey d'Hilliers was born in Paris, the son of the French revolutionary general Louis Baraguey d'H ...

: 1851 * Maréchal Bernard Pierre Magnan: 1851–1865 * Maréchal

François Certain de Canrobert ) is most senior serving (oldest or responsible) and leading figure in a particular function of society (religious, education, diplomatical, governmental). In this case, the Dean is referring to de Canrobert, at the époque, as the most senior fi ...

: 1865–1870 * Maréchal

: 1870 * Général

Louis Jules Trochu Louis-Jules Trochu (; 12 March 18157 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense—France's ''de facto'' head of state—from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 2 ...

: 1870–1871 * Général

Joseph Vinoy Joseph Vinoy (10 August 1803 – 27 April 1880) was a French soldier. Biography He originally intended to join the Church, but, after some years at a seminary, he decided upon a military career and joined the French army in 1823. As a sergean ...

: 1871 * Général

Paul de Ladmirault Paul de Ladmirault (17 February 1808, in Montmorillon – 1 February 1898, in Sillars) was a French general active in the French conquest of Algeria and during the wars of the Second French Empire. Life Ladmirault was born on 17 February 1808 a ...

: 1871–1878 * Général Édouard Aymard: 1878–1880 * Général

Justin Clinchant Justin Clinchant (24 December 1820, Thiaucourt-Regniéville – 20 March 1881) was a French Army general of the 19th century. Biography Clinchant entered the army from St Cyr in 1841. From 1847 to 1852 Clinchant was employed in the Algerian c ...

: 1880–1881 * Général Alphonse-Théodore Lecointe: 1882–1884 * Général de division Félix Gustave Saussier: 1884–1898 * Général Émile Auguste François Zurlinden: 1898–1899 * Général Joseph Brugère: 1899–1900 * Général de division Georges-Auguste Florentin: 1900–1901 * Général Paul-Vincent Faure-Biguet: 1901–1903 * Général Jean Dessirier: 1903–1906 * Général Jean Baptiste Dalstein: 1906–1910 * Général

Michel Maunoury Michel-Joseph Maunoury (17 December 1847 – 28 March 1923) was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I who was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France. Initially commanding in Lorraine, as the success ...

: 1910–1912 * Général

Victor-Constant Michel Général Victor-Constant Michel (30 January 1850 – 8 November 1937) was a French General officer. He led the French Army in 1911, but following his opposition to the French strategy for war with Germany was replaced by General Joseph Joffre in J ...

: 1912–1914 * Général de division

Joseph Gallieni Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 – 27 May 1916) was a French soldier, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies. Gallieni is infamous in Madagascar as the French military leader who e ...

: 1914–1915 * Général

: 1915–1916 * Général Auguste Dubail: 1916–1918 * Général

Adolphe Guillaumat Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat (4 January 1863 – 18 May 1940) was a French Army general during World War I. Early years Adolphe Guillaumat was born in Bourgneuf, Charente-Maritime. He graduated first from his class of 1884 at the Saint-Cyr ...

: 1918 * Général Charles Emile Moinier: 1918–1919 * Général Pierre Berdoulat: 1919–1923 * Général

Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (; 17 November 1867 – 16 September 1946) was a French general, best known for his leadership of the French Fourth Army at the end of the First World War. Following this, he became the first High Commissioner of ...

: 1923–1937 * Général

Gaston Billotte Gaston-Henri Billotte (10 February 1875 – 23 May 1940) was a French military officer, remembered chiefly for his central role in the failure of the French Army to defeat the German invasion of France in May 1940. He was killed in a car accident ...

: 1937–1939 * Général Pierre Héring: 1939–1940 * Général Henri Dentz: June 1940

German occupation

Under the

German occupation of France The Military Administration in France (german: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; french: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zo ...

, Paris had at least three German military governors: * General

Otto von Stülpnagel Otto Edwin von Stülpnagel (16 June 1878 – 6 February 1948) was a German military commander of occupied France during the Second World War. Arrested by Allied authorities after the war, he committed suicide in prison in 1948. Career Otto von S ...

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

Military governors of Paris since 1944

* Général

Philippe Leclerc Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during the Second World War. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal ...

: 1944 * Général

Marie Pierre Kœnig Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...

: 1944–1945 * Général Paul Legentilhomme: 1945–1947 * Général d’armée René Jean-Charles Chouteau: 16 January 1947–March 1953 * Général d'armée Henri Zeller: 1953–1957 * Général Louis-Constant Morlière: 1957–1958 * Général Pierre-François-Marie-Joseph Garbay: 1958–1959 * Général

Raoul Salan Raoul Albin Louis Salan (; 10 June 1899 – 3 July 1984) was a French Army general. He served as the fourth French commanding general during the First Indochina War. He was one of four retired generals who organized the 1961 Algiers Putsch op ...

: 1959–1960 * Général d’armée Maurice Gazin: 1960 * Général d'armée André Demetz: 1960–1962 * Général Louis Dodelier: 1962–1965 * Général Philippe de Camas: 1965–1968 * Général André Meltz: 1968–1971 * Général d'armée Bernard Usureau: 1971–1974 * Général de corps d'armée Philippe Clave: 1974–1975 * Général Jean Favreau: 1975–1977 * Général de corps d'armée Jacques Antoine de Barry: 1977–1980 * Général d'armée

Jeannou Lacaze Jeannou Lacaze, was a French Général d'armée of the French Army and Chef d'État-Major des armées (1981-1985), who also served in the French Foreign Legion. Biography Preliminary years Jeannou Lacaze was born in French Indochina, the s ...

: 15 September 1980–1981 * Général de corps d'armée Roger Périer: 1981–1982 * Général d'armée Alban Barthez: 1 September 1982 * Général de corps d'armée Michel Fennebresque: 1984 * Général de corps d'armée Hervé Navereau: 14 March 1987 * Général d'armée Daniel Valéry: 1 September 1991 * Général de corps d'armée Michel Guignon: 1 August 1992 * Général de corps d’armée Michel Billot: 28 October 1996 * Général de corps d’armée Pierre Costedoat: 1 August 2000 * Général de corps d'armée Marcel Valentin: 1 November 2002 * Général de corps d'armée Xavier de Zuchowicz: 1 August 2005 * Général de corps d'armée

Bruno Dary Bruno Dary (born 21 December 1952 in Barcelonnette, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) is a Général d'armée of the French Army and Commandant of the Foreign Legion. Général Dary is the 136th Military governor of Paris (french: Gouverneur militaire ...

: 1 August 2007 * Général de corps d'armée

Hervé Charpentier Hervé Charpentier is a Général d'armée of the French Army. He is the 137th Military governor of Paris (french: :fr:Gouverneur militaire de Paris, Gouverneur militaire de Paris) from 1 August 2012 until 31 July 2015. Military career he wa ...

: 1 August 2012 * Général de corps d'armée Bruno Le Ray: 31 July 2015 * Général de corps d'armée Christophe Abad: 31 July 2020

Citations

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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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