Order of precedence in France

The order of precedence () for public ceremonies in France is established by (Decree no. 89–655 of 13 September 1989 relating to public ceremonies, precedence, and civil and military honours). The original order has been modified since 1989, for example inserting the Defender of Rights after that office's 2011 creation. the order is as follows:

1. The President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron)
2. The Prime Minister (Sébastien Lecornu)
3. The President of the Senate (Gérard Larcher)
4. The President of the National Assembly (Yaël Braun-Pivet)
5. Former Presidents of the Republic, in order of term
6. Nicolas Sarkozy
7. François Hollande
8. The Government, in the order decided by the President of the Republic (Lecornu government)
9. Former Prime Ministers, in order of term
10. Laurent Fabius
11. Édith Cresson
12. Édouard Balladur
13. Alain Juppé
14. Jean-Pierre Raffarin
15. Dominique de Villepin
16. François Fillon
17. Jean-Marc Ayrault
18. Manuel Valls
19. Bernard Cazeneuve
20. Édouard Philippe
21. Jean Castex
22. Élisabeth Borne
23. Gabriel Attal
24. Michel Barnier
25. François Bayrou
26. The President of the Constitutional Council (Richard Ferrand)
27. The Vice President of the Conseil d'État (Didier-Roland Tabuteau)
28. The President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Thierry Beaudet)
29. The Defender of Rights (Claire Hédon)
30. Members of the National Assembly
31. Senators
32. European parliament members
33. The judicial authority represented by the first President of the Court of Cassation (Christophe Soulard) and the public prosecutor of that court (Rémy Heitz)
34. The first President of the Revenue Court (Cour des Comptes) (Pierre Moscovici) and the public prosecutor of that court (Véronique Hamayon)
35. The Great Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur, chancellor of the National Order of Merit (Général François Lecointre) and the members of the councils of these orders
36. The Chancellor of the Order of the Libération, and the members of the council of this order
37. The Chief of the Defence Staff (Général Fabien Mandon)

The following then apply in Paris:

1. The prefect of the Île-de-France région, prefect of Paris (Marc Guillaume)
2. The prefect of police, prefect of the Paris defense zone (Laurent Nuñez)
3. The mayor of Paris, president of the Council of Paris (Anne Hidalgo)
4. The representatives to the European Parliament
5. The chancellor of the Institute of France (Xavier Darcos), the perpetual secretaries of the French Academy, the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, the Academy of Sciences, of the Académie des beaux-arts and of the academy of moral and political sciences
6. The general secretary of the government; the general secretary of national defence; the general secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs
7. The president of the administrative court of appeal of Paris (Patrick Frydman); the first president of the Paris court of appeal (Jacques Degrandi) and the general public prosecutor of that court (François Falletti)
8. The general delegate for weaponry; the general secretary for administration of the Ministry of defence; the chief of staff of the army; the chief of staff of the navy; the chief of staff of the air force; the military governor of Paris, commanding the Île-de-France army region
9. The president of the high council of broadcasting (CSA) (Olivier Schrameck)
10. The president of the national commission "computing and freedoms" (CNIL) (Marie-Laure Denis)
11. The president of the concurrence council
12. Universities of Paris

There are analogous orderings for local officials at events in Metropolitan France outside Paris, for Overseas France, and on naval bases. There are also provisions to allow subordinate to take the place of certain head officers, if absent. For events organised by a public body other than the national government, the body's head ranks second after the representative of the State (President, prefect, or sub-prefect).

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