The 1^st Republic [1792-1804] 

• The National Convention of the French Revolution [Sept 1792-1795] (Fall of Robspierre on July 27, 1794; end of the reign of terror)
• The Directory [1795-1799] (5 Directors.  Coup d’Etat by Napoléon Bonaparte on Nov. 9, 1799)
• The First Consul [1799-1804] (Napoléon Bonaparte seized power and was made Consul for life in 1802)
• Napoleon Bonaparte Picture [other Pictures Of Napoleon I]
• Napoleon Bonaparte Biography

• Napoléon I, (Napoléon Bonaparte) Emperor, Josephine de Beauhamais, Empress.   [1804-1814] (Crowned emperor Dec. 2, 1804; abdicated Apr. 6, 1814; Waterloo was on June 18, 1815)
• Napoléon II [1814] (Josephine's son, the Duke de Reichstadt and Napoléon II, never ruled)

• Louis XVIII [1814-1824] (Brother of Louis XVI; Napoleon was exiled to Elbe)
• Charles X [1824-1830] (Brother of Louis XVI and XVIII;  Was deposed by the July, 1830 Revolution)
• Louis-Philippe I, the Citizen King [1830-1848] (Son of Philippe d’Orléans; abdicated Feb. 24, 1848)

• Louis Napoléon Bonaparte [1848-1852] (Nephew of Napoléon I; Elected president Dec. 10, 1848; Accomplished a coup d’Etat Dec. 2, 1851)

• Napoléon III [1852-1870] (Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Emperor, Eugenie de Montijo, Empress; Made Emperor on Dec. 2, 1852; Capitulated at Sedan on Sept. 1, 1870; fell Sept. 4, 1870; Their son, Prince Imperial {1856-1879} died in Zulu War; Eugenie died in 1920)

• Adolphe Thiers [Sep 1870 to Feb. 1871] (Gov. of Natl. Defense); During the Franco-Prussian War which was won by Germany in 1871; [The Paris Commune and the Manifesto of March 18, 1871][1871-1873] (First elected Pres. by the National Assembly on Feb. 17, 1871; Put out of office on May 24, 1873; Elected president by the people , May 1871)
• Marchal Patrice de MacMahon [1873-1879]
• Jules Grévy [1879-1887] (Reelected in Dec. 1885; stepped down, after the Wilson affair, Dec. 1, 1887)
  • Statute of Liberty [1885]
• Sadi Carnot [1887-1894] (Assassinated in Lyon on June 24, 1894)
  • Eiffel Tower [1889]
• Jean Casimir-Perier [1894-1895] (Forced to resign on Jan. 15, 1895)
• Félix Faure [1895-1899] (Died on Feb 16, 1899; Best known for the Affaire Dreyfus)
• Émile Loubet [1899-1906] (Separation of the church and the state, 1905)
• Armand Fallières [1906-1913]
• Raymond Poincaré [1913-1920] (1914-1918, the war of 14 (WWI); France won; Clemenceau was president of the council from 1917 to 1920)
• Paul Deschanel [1920] (Elected in Jan., stepped down in Sept. because of health)
• Alexandre Millerand [1920-1924] (Hostile to the cartel of the left; had to step down in June, 1924)
• Gaston Doumergue [1924-1931]
• Paul Doumer [1931-1932] (Assassinated May 6, 1932)
• Albert Lebrun [1932-1940] ([1939-1940] Germany conquered  France; Lebrum reelected in April, 1939; Resigned and was replaced by Marshal Pétain in July, 1940)
  
  
                    Vichy to the Fifth Republic [1940-Present]