List of mayors of Nantes
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The office of the Mayor of Nantes is a directly elected
position. Since 1947 there have been five mayors; the term of office is for a period of six years. The current mayor is Jean-Marc Ayrault
(PS
).
Direct election
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position. Since 1947 there have been five mayors; the term of office is for a period of six years. The current mayor is Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes and President of the Socialist Party group in the French National Assembly....
(PS
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement...
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| Period | Name | Party | Other position held |
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| 1565-1566 | Geoffroy Drouet | ||
| 1566-1568 | Yves Rocas | ||
| 1568-1569 | Matthieu André | ||
| 1569-1571 | Pierre Cornulier | ||
| 1571-1572 | Jean Morin | ||
| 1572-1573 | Guillaume Harrouys | ||
| 1573-1574 | Michel Le Lou | ||
| 1574-1575 | Jacques Grignon | ||
| 1575-1576 | Jean Boutin | ||
| 1576-1577 | Robert Poullain | ||
| 1577-1578 | Michel Loriot | ||
| 1578-1580 | François Myron | ||
| 1580-1581 | Antoine de Brezenay | ||
| 1581-1583 | Bonaventure de Compluto | ||
| 1583-1584 | Claude Brossard | ||
| 1584-1585 | Antoine Gravoil | ||
| 1585-1586 | Jacques de Marquès | ||
| 1586-1588 | Jean Fruneau | ||
| 1588-1590 | Charles de Harouys | ||
| 1590-1592 | Pierre André | ||
| 1592-1595 | Jean Laubier | ||
| 1595-1597 | Guillaume Dubot | ||
| 1597-1598 | Jean Fourché | ||
| 1598-1599 | Charles de Harouys | ||
| 1599-1601 | Gabriel Hux | ||
| 1601-1603 | Julien Laurens | ||
| 1603-1605 | Yves Le Lou | ||
| 1605-1607 | Claude Cornulier | ||
| 1607-1609 | Michel Loriot | ||
| 1609-1611 | René Charette | ||
| 1611-1613 | Jean Blanchard | ||
| 1613-1615 | Louis Charette | ||
| 1615-1617 | Pierre Bernard | ||
| 1617-1619 | André Morin | ||
| 1619-1621 | Alexandre Charette | ||
| 1621-1623 | Jacques Raoul | ||
| 1623-1625 | Louis de Harouys | ||
| 1625-1627 | Jean de Harouys | ||
| 1627-1629 | René Ménardeau | ||
| 1629-1631 | René de la Tullaye | ||
| 1631-1633 | Guillaume Blanchard | ||
| 1633-1634 | René Bernard | ||
| 1634-1636 | André Jubot | ||
| 1636-1637 | René Charette | ||
| 1637-1639 | François Bourgogne | ||
| 1639-1642 | Pierre Poullain | ||
| 1642-1644 | Christophe Juchault | ||
| 1644-1647 | Yves Monti | ||
| 1647-1648 | Jacques de Bourges | ||
| 1648-1650 | Mathurin Boux | ||
| 1650-1652 | Jean Charette | ||
| 1652-1654 | Claude Bidé | ||
| 1654-1657 | Jean Fournier | ||
| 1657-1659 | René de Pontual | ||
| 1659-1661 | Jacques Huteau | ||
| 1661-1662 | Jean Poullain | ||
| 1662-1664 | Louis Macé | ||
| 1664-1666 | Mathurin Giraud | ||
| 1666-1668 | François Lorido | ||
| 1668-1671 | Jacques Charette | ||
| 1671-1673 | Gratien Libault | ||
| 1673-1675 | Jean Regnier | ||
| 1675-1676 | Louis Charette | ||
| 1676-1679 | Charles César Chevalier | ||
| 1679-1682 | Jacques Fremon | ||
| 1682-1684 | Louis Mesnard | ||
| 1684-1685 | Claude Bidé | ||
| 1685-1688 | Paul Cassard | ||
| 1688-1690 | Pierre Noblet | ||
| 1690-1716 | Julien Proust | ||
| 1716-1720 | André Boussineau | ||
| 1720-1730 | Gérard Mellier | ||
| 1730-1732 | René Le Ray | ||
| 1732-1735 | Jean François Vedier | ||
| 1735-1736 | René Darquistade | ||
| 1736-1738 | Claude Petit | ||
| 1738-1740 | François Moricaud | ||
| 1740-1747 | René Darquistade | ||
| 1747-1748 | François Pierre Durocher | ||
| 1748-1754 | Mathurin Bellabre | ||
| 1754-1762 | Jean-Baptiste Gellée de Prémion | ||
| 1762-1766 | Léonard Joubert | ||
| 1766-1770 | François Libault | ||
| 1770-1772 | Philippe-Vincent Royer | ||
| 1772-1776 | Pierre de la Ville de Chambardet | ||
| 1776-1782 | Jean-Baptiste Gellée de Prémion | ||
| 1782-1786 | Jean-Jacques Berrouette | ||
| 1786-1787 | Georges Guérin de Beaumont | ||
| 1787-1789 | Pierre Richard | ||
| 1789-1791 | Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervégan | ||
| 1791-1792 | Pierre-Guillaume Giraud du Plessis | ||
| 1792-1793 | René Gaston Baco de la Chapelle | ||
| 9 Oct 1793 - 6 Dec 1794 | Jean-Louis Renard | ||
| 12 Jan 1795 - 19 Nov 1795 | Pierre-Guillume Giraud du Plessis | ||
| 19 Nov 1795 - 3 May 1797 | Gilbert Beaufranchet | ||
| 4 May 1797 - 22 Sep 1797 | Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervégan | ||
| 22 Sep 1797 - 25 Nov 1798 | Julien-François Douillard | ||
| 25 Nov 1798 - 19 Jul 1800 | Louis-Maris Saget | ||
| 19 Jul 1800 - 31 Mar 1801 | François Fellonneau | ||
| 2 Jun 1801 - 14 Jun 1803 | Claude-Sylvain Paris | ||
| 15 Jun 1803 - 17 Apr 1805 | Augustin-Louis de Loynes | ||
| 1805-1813 | Jean-Baptiste Bertrand-Geslin | ||
| 1813-1815 | François-Maire de Fou | ||
| 1815 | Jean-Baptiste Bertrand-Geslin | ||
| 1815 | Maurice Etiennez | ||
| 1815-1816 | François-Marie du Fou | ||
| 1816-1819 | Louis Rousseau de Saint-Aignan | ||
| 1819-1830 | Louis-Hyacinthe Lévesque | ||
| 1830 | Maurice Etiennez | ||
| 1830-1832 | Philippe-René Soubzmain | ||
| 1832-1848 | Ferdinand Favre | ||
| 1848-1852 | Evariste Colombel | ||
| 1852-1866 | Ferdinand Favre | ||
| 1866-1870 | Antoine Dufour | ||
| 1870-1871 | René Waldeck-Rousseau René Waldeck-Rousseau, father René Waldeck-Rousseau was a French politician, father of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau who was a statesman during the Third Republic.... |
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| 1871-1872 | Arsène Leloup | ||
| 1872-1874 | René Waldeck-Rousseau René Waldeck-Rousseau, father René Waldeck-Rousseau was a French politician, father of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau who was a statesman during the Third Republic.... |
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| 1874-1881 | Julien Charles Marie Claudius Lechat | ||
| 1881 | Mathurin Brissonneau (interim) | ||
| 1881-1885 | Georges Évariste Eugène Colombel | ||
| 1885-1888 | Édouard Normand | ||
| 1888-1892 | Ernest François James Guibourd de Luzinais | ||
| 1892-1896 | Alfred Joseph Riom | ||
| 1896-1899 | Hippolyte Étienne Étiennez | ||
| 1899-1908 | Paul-Émile Sarradin | ||
| 1908 | N. Canal (interim) | ||
| 17 May 1908 - 16 Dec 1910 | Gabriel Guist'hau Gabriel Guist'hau Gabriel Guist'hau, was a French politician .Guist'hau left Réunion for Nantes to study law there, and was elected the mayor of Nantes in 1908. He went on to become a deputy to the Assemblée nationale from 1910 to 1924... |
ARD Democratic Republican Alliance The Democratic Republican Alliance was a French political party created in 1901 by followers of Léon Gambetta, such as Raymond Poincaré who would be president of the Council in the 1920s... |
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| 16 Dec 1910 - 2 May 1928 | Paul Bellamy | PRS Republican-Socialist Party The Republican-Socialist Party was a French socialist political party during the French Third Republic, founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1934. It was founded by socialists who refused to join the SFIO founded in 1905. The PRS was a non-Marxist "reformist socialist" party located between the SFIO... |
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| 2 May 1928 - 1 Jun 1928 | Gaston Veil | SFIO | |
| 1928-1929 | Adolphe Moitié | ||
| 1929-1935 | Léopold Cassegrain | ||
| 1935-1940 | Auguste Pageot | SFIO | |
| 24 Dec 1940 - 4 May 1941 | Edmond Prieur | SFIO | |
| 4 May 1941 - 10 Oct 1942 | Gaëtan Rondeau | ||
| 10 Oct 1942 - 31 Aug 1944 | Henry Orrion | ||
| 31 Aug 1944 - 19 May 1945 | Clovis Constant | SFIO | |
| 19 May 1945 - 31 Oct 1947 | Jean Philippot | ||
| 31 Oct 1947 - 26 Mar 1965 | Henry Orrion | RPF Rally of the French People The Rally of the French People was a French political party, led by Charles de Gaulle.-Foundation:... |
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| 1965-1977 | André Morice | CR | Senator |
| 1977-1983 | Alain Chénard | PS Socialist Party (France) The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement... |
Deputy |
| 1983-1989 | Michel Chauty | RPR Rally for the Republic The Rally for the Republic , was a French right-wing political party. Originating from the Union of Democrats for the Republic , it was founded by Jacques Chirac in 1976 and presented itself as the heir of Gaullism... |
Senator |
| 20 Mar 1989- | Jean-Marc Ayrault Jean-Marc Ayrault Jean-Marc Ayrault is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes and President of the Socialist Party group in the French National Assembly.... |
PS Socialist Party (France) The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in France and the largest party of the French centre-left. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in France, along with the center-right Union for a Popular Movement... |
Deputy |