List of ministers of justice of France

This is a list of justice ministers of France, working for the French Ministry of Justice.

1790 to the Consulate

• 21 November 1790 – 23 March 1792:
• 23 March 1792 – 12 April 1792: Jean Marie Roland de la Platière
• 13 April 1792 – 4 July 1792: Antoine Duranton
• 4 July 1792 – 10 August 1792: Étienne de Joly
• 10 August 1792 – 6 October 1792: Georges Jacques Danton
• 9 October 1792 – 19 March 1793: Dominique Joseph Garat
• 20 March 1793 – 23 April 1794: Louis-Jérôme Gohier
• 4 November 1795 – 2 January 1796: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
• 5 January 1796 – 4 April 1796: Jean-Joseph-Victor Genissieu
• 10 February 1797 – 3 September 1797: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
• 24 September 1797 – 20 July 1799: Charles Lambrechts
• 14 June 1799 – 9 November 1799: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès
• 9 November 1799 – 13 September 1802: André Joseph Abrial

Consulate to the Revolution of 1848

• 14 September 1802 – 18 November 1813: Claude Ambroise Régnier
• 19 November 1813 – 11 April 1814: Mathieu Molé
• 3 April 1814 – 13 May 1814: Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey
• 13 May 1814 – 20 March 1815: Charles Henri Dambray <small>(interim)</small>
• 20 March 1815 – 22 June 1815: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès
• 22 June 1815 – 7 July 1815: Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe
• 9 July 1815 – 27 September 1815: Étienne-Denis Pasquier
• 28 September 1815 – 10 May 1816: François Barbé-Marbois
• 11 May 1816 – 19 January 1817: Charles Henri Dambray <small>(interim)</small>
• 19 January 1817 – 27 December 1818: Étienne-Denis Pasquier
• 28 December 1818 – 13 December 1821: Pierre de Serre
• 14 December 1821 – 4 January1828: Pierre-Denis de Peyronnet
• 5 January 1828 – 13 March 1829: Joseph-Marie Portalis
• 14 May 1829 – 8 August 1829: Pierre-Alpinien Bourdeau
• 8 August 1829 – 19 May 1830: Jean de Courvoisier
• 19 May 1830 – 31 July 1830: Jean de Chantelauze
• 31 July 1830 – 27 December 1830: Jacques Charles Dupont de l'Eure
• 27 December 1830 – 13 March 1831: Joseph Mérilhou
• 13 March 1831 – 11 February 1832: Félix Barthe
• 11 February 1832 – 22 February 1836: Jean-Charles Persil
• 22 February 1836 – 5 September 1836: Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet
• 6 September 1836 – 15 April 1837: Jean-Charles Persil
• 15 April 1837 – 31 March 1839: Félix Barthe
• 31 March 1839 – 12 May 1839: Amédée Girod de l'Ain
• 12 May 1839 – 1 March 1840: Jean-Baptiste Teste
• <abbr>1 March</abbr> 1840 – 29 October 1840: Alexandre-François Vivien
• 29 October 1840 – 13 March 1847: Nicolas Martin du Nord
• 14 March 1847 – 24 February 1848: Michel Hébert

Under the Provisional Government of 1848 and the Second Republic

• 24 February 1848 – 7 June 1848: Adolphe Crémieux
• 7 June 1848 – 17 July 1848: Eugène Bethmont
• 17 July 1848 – 20 December 1848: Pierre Marie de Saint-Georges
• 20 December 1848 – 31 October 1849: Odilon Barrot, simultaneously President of the Council
• 31 October 1849 – 24 January 1851: Eugène Rouher
• 24 January 1851 – 10 April 1851: Ernest de Royer
• 10 April 1851 – 26 October 1851: Eugène Rouher
• 26 October 1851 – <abbr>1</abbr> November 1851: Eugène Corbin
• <abbr>1</abbr> November 1851 – 3 December 1851: Alfred Daviel
• 3 December 1851 – 22 January 1852: Eugène Rouher

Second Empire

• 22 January 1852 – 11 November 1857: Jacques Pierre Abbatucci
• 16 November 1857 – 5 May 1859: Ernest de Royer
• 5 May 1859 – 23 June 1863: Claude Delangle
• 23 June 1863 – 17 July 1869: Pierre Jules Baroche
• 17 July 1869 – 2 January 1870: Jean-Baptiste Duvergier
• 2 January 1870 – 10 August 1870: Émile Ollivier
• 10 August 1870 – 4 September 1870: Théodore Grandperret

Paris Commune

• 16 April 1871 – 28 May 1871: Eugène Protot

Third Republic

Vichy France

Free France

• René Cassin, 24 September 1941 – 7 June 1943 (based in London)
• Jules Abadie, 7 June 1943 – 4 September 1943 (based in Algiers)
• François de Menthon, 4 September 1943 – 20 August 1944 (based in Algiers)

Provisional Government of the French Republic

Fourth Republic

Fifth Republic

See also

• Grand Chancellor of France

References