List of Ministers of Commerce

• 16 January 1812 - 1 April 1814 : Jean-Baptiste Collin, comte de Sussy
• 29 January 1828 - 8 August 1829 : Pierre Laurent Barthélemy, comte de Saint-Cricq
• 13 March 1831 - 31 December 1832 : Antoine, comte d'Argout
• 31 December 1832 - 4 April 1834 : Adolphe Thiers
  Adolphe Thiers
  Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...
  
  
• 4 April 1834 - 10 November 1834 : Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel
• 10 November 1834 - 18 November 1834 : Jean-Baptiste Teste
  Jean-Baptiste Teste
  Jean-Baptiste Teste was a French politician of the July Monarchy. He fell from grace in the Teste-Cubières scandal.-Early life:...
  
  
• 18 November 1834 - 22 February 1836 : Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel
• 22 February 1836 - 6 September 1836 : Hippolyte Passy
  Hippolyte Passy
  Hippolyte Passy was a French economist. He was twice Minister of Finance in the government of Louis-Philippe of France.-References:...
  
  
• 19 September 1836 - 31 March 1839 : Nicolas Martin du Nord
• 31 March 1839 - 12 May 1839 : Adrien de Gasparin
• 12 May 1839 - 1 March 1840 : Laurent Cunin-Gridaine
• 1 March 1840 - 29 October 1840 : Alexandre Goüin
• 29 October 1840 - 24 February 1848 : Laurent Cunin-Gridaine
• 24 February 1848 - 11 May 1848 : Eugène Bethmont
• 11 May 1848 - 28 June 1848 : Ferdinand Flocon
• 28 June 1848 - 20 December 1848 : Charles Gilbert Tourret
• 20 December 1848 - 29 December 1848 : Jacques Alexandre Bixio
  Jacques Alexandre Bixio
  Jacques Alexandre Bixio was a French doctor, balloonist, and politician of Italian origin.Bxio was born in Chiavari, Italy, and published a number of works relating to agriculture...
  
  
• 9 December 1848 - 2 June 1849 : Louis Joseph Buffet
• 2 June 1849 - 31 October 1849 : Victor Ambroise LanJuneais
• 31 October 1849 - 9 January 1851 : Jean-Baptiste Dumas
  Jean-Baptiste Dumas
  Jean Baptiste André Dumas was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities...
  
  
• 9 January 1851 - 24 January 1851 : Louis Bernard Bonjean
• 24 January 1851 - 10 April 1851 : Eugène Schneider
  Eugène Schneider
  Joseph Eugène Schneider was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe.-Biography:...
  
  
• 10 April 1851 - 26 October 1851 : Louis Joseph Buffet
• 26 October 1851 - 26 November 1851 : François, comte de Casabianca
• 26 November 1851 - 25 January 1852 : Noël-Jacques Lefebvre-Duruflé
• 25 January 1852 - 14 February 1853 : Victor Fialin, comte de Persigny
• 23 June 1853 - 3 February 1855 : Pierre Magne
  Pierre Magne
  Pierre Magne was a French professional road bicycle racer. Magne won one stage in the 1928 Tour de France, and finished 6th in the 1930 Tour de France. Pierre Magne was the younger brother of Tour de France winner Antonin Magne.- Palmarès :1927...
  
  
• 3 February 1855 - 23 June 1863 : Eugène Rouher
  Eugène Rouher
  Eugène Rouher was a French statesman of the Second Empire.He was born at Riom , where he practised law after taking his degree in Paris in 1835. In 1846 he sought election to the Chamber of Deputies as an official candidate of the Guizot ministry...
  
  
• 23 June 1863 - 20 January 1867 : Armand Béhic
• 20 January 1867 - 17 December 1868 : Adolphe Forcade La Roquette
• 17 December 1868 - 17 July 1869 : Edmond Valléry Gressier
  Edmond Valléry Gressier
  Edmond Valléry Gressier was the Minister of Agriculture of France during the Franco-Prussian War.-References:...
  
  
• 17 July 1869 - 2 January 1870 : Alfred Leroux
• 2 January 1870 - 10 August 1870 : Charles Louvet de Couvray
• 10 August 1870 - 4 September 1870 : Clément Aimé Jean Duvernois
• 4 September 1870 - 19 February 1871 : Pierre Magnin
• 19 February 1871 - 5 June 1871 : Félix Lambrecht
• 5 June 1871 - 6 February 1872 : Victor Lefranc
  Victor Lefranc
  Bernard Edme Victor Etienne Lefranc , French lawyer and politician, moderated republican, was under the French Third Republic Minister of Agriculture and Trade, then Interior Minister.- Life :...
  
  
• 6 February 1872 - 23 April 1872 : Eugène de Goulard
• 23 April 1872 - 25 May 1873 : Pierre Teisserenc de Bort
• 25 May 1873 - 26 November 1873 : Joseph de la Bouillerie
• 29 November 1873 - 22 May 1874 : Alfred Deseilligny
• 22 May 1874 - 10 March 1875 : Louis Grivart
• 10 March 1875 - 9 March 1876 : Marie Camille Alfred, vicomte de Meaux
• 9 March 1876 - 17 May 1877 : Pierre Teisserenc de Bort
• 17 May 1877 - 23 November 1877 : Marie Camille Alfred, vicomte de Meaux
• 23 November 1877 - 13 December 1877 : Jules Ozenne
• 13 December 1877 - 4 February 1879 : Pierre Teisserenc de Bort
• 4 February 1879 - 4 March 1879 : Charles Lepère
• 5 March 1879 - 14 November 1881 : Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...
  
  
• 14 November 1881 - 30 January 1882 : Maurice Rouvier
  Maurice Rouvier
  Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...
  
  
• 30 January 1882 - 7 August 1882 : Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...
  
  
• 7 August 1882 - 21 February 1883 : Pierre Legrand
• 21 February 1883 - 14 October 1884 : Anne Charles Hérisson
• 14 October 1884 - 6 April 1885 : Maurice Rouvier
  Maurice Rouvier
  Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman.He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and spent his early career in business at Marseille. He supported Léon Gambetta's candidature there in 1867, and in 1870 he founded an anti-imperial journal, L'Egalité. Becoming secretary general of the prefecture of...
  
  
• 6 April 1885 - 9 November 1885 : Pierre Legrand
• 9 November 1885 - 7 January 1886 : Lucien Dautresme
• 7 January 1886 - 30 May 1887 : Édouard Locroy
• 30 May 1887 - 3 April 1888 : Lucien Dautresme
• 3 April 1888 - 22 February 1889 : Pierre Legrand
• 22 February 1889 - 17 March 1890 : Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Tirard
  Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.He was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland. After studying in his native town, Tirard became a civil engineer. After five years of government service he resigned to become a jewel merchant...
  
  
• 17 March 1890 - 6 December 1892 : Jules Roche
• 6 December 1892 - 4 April 1893 : Jules Siegfried
• 4 April 1893 - 3 December 1893 : Louis Terrier
• 3 December 1893 - 30 May 1894 : Jean Marty
• 30 May 1894 - 26 January 1895 : Victor Lourties
• 26 January 1895 - 1 November 1895 : André Lebon
• 1 November 1895 - 29 April 1896 : Gustave Mesureur
• 29 April 1896 - 28 June 1898 : Henry Boucher
• 28 June 1898 - 1 November 1898 : Émile Maruéjouls
• 1 November 1898 - 22 June 1899 : Paul Delombre
• 22 June 1899 - 7 June 1902 : Alexandre Millerand
  Alexandre Millerand
  Alexandre Millerand was a French socialist politician. He was President of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924 and Prime Minister of France 20 January to 23 September 1920...
  
  
• 7 June 1902 - 24 January 1905 : Georges Trouillot
• 24 January 1905 - 12 November 1905 : Fernand Dubief
• 12 November 1905 - 14 March 1906 : Georges Trouillot
• 14 March 1906 - 4 January 1908 : Gaston Doumergue
  Gaston Doumergue
  Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue was a French politician of the Third Republic.Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914...
  
  
• 4 January 1908 - 24 July 1909 : Jean Cruppi
  Jean Cruppi
  Jean Cruppi was a French politician of the Third Republic....
  
  
• 24 July 1909 - 2 March 1911 : Jean Dupuy
  Jean Dupuy (politician)
  Jean Dupuy - 31 December 1919, Paris) was a French politician and media owner.-Life:A huissier by profession, he practised in Paris and quickly became interested in the press and in politics, taking over leadership of Le Petit Parisien on the death of Paul Piégut in 1888...
  
  
• 2 March 1911 - 27 June 1911 : Alfred Massé
• 27 June 1911 - 14 January 1912 : Maurice Couyba
• 14 January 1912 - 21 January 1913 : Fernand David
  Fernand David
  Fernand David was the French Minister of Agriculture from 21 January 1913 to 22 March 1913.-References:...
  
  
• 21 January 1913 - 22 March 1913 : 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...
  
  
• 22 March 1913 - 9 December 1913 : Alfred Massé
• 9 December 1913 - 17 March 1914 : Louis Malvy
  Louis Malvy
  Louis-Jean Malvy was the Interior Minister of France in 1914.-Biography:He was born on December 1, 1875 in Figeac in 1875. He was a member of the Radical Party and served in the Chamber of Deputies in 1906....
  
  
• 17 March 1914 - 9 June 1914 : Raoul Péret
  Raoul Péret
  Raoul Adolphe Péret was a French lawyer and politician.-Biography:Raoul Péret was born in Châtellerault , son of a magistrate. He followed his father into the law, becoming an advocate at the Court of Cassation in Paris. In 1893 he served as an aide to Justice Minister Eugène Guérin...
  
  
• 9 June 1914 - 13 June 1914 : Marc Réville
• 13 June 1914 - 29 October 1915 : Gaston Thomson
  Gaston Thomson
  Gaston Thomson was a French politician born January 29, 1848 in Oran and died May 14, 1932, at Bône .He was a member of the French Chamber of Deputies for the Department of Constantine for fifty years and three months...
  
  
• 29 October 1915 - 16 November 1917 : Étienne Clémentel
• 16 November 1917 - 5 May 1919 : Étienne Clémentel
• 5 May 1919 - 27 November 1919 : Étienne Clémentel
• 27 November 1919 - 20 January 1920 : Louis Dubois
  Louis Dubois
  Louis DuBois was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the village of New Paltz, New York...
  
  
• 20 January 1920 - 16 January 1921 : Augustuste Isaac
• 16 January 1921 - 29 March 1924 : Lucien Dior
• 29 March 1924 - 9 June 1924 : Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.-Life:Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Munitions in...
  
  
• 9 June 1924 - 14 June 1924 : Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance , and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935....
  
  
• 14 June 1924 - 17 April 1925 : Eugène Raynaldy
• 17 April 1925 - 29 October 1925 : Charles Chaumet
• 29 October 1925 - 23 June 1926 : Charles Daniel-Vincent
• 23 June 1926 - 19 July 1926 : Fernand Chapsal
• 19 July 1926 - 23 July 1926 : Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.-Life:Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Munitions in...
  
  
• 23 July 1926 - 2 September 1928 : Maurice Bokanowski
• 14 September 1928 - 11 November 1928 : Henry Chéron
• 11 November 1928 - 3 November 1929 : Georges Bonnefous
• 3 November 1929 - 21 February 1930 : Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance , and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935....
  
  
• 21 February 1930 - 2 March 1930 : Georges Bonnet
  Georges Bonnet
  Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...
  
  
• 2 March 1930 - 13 December 1930 : Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin
  Pierre Étienne Flandin was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance , and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935....
  
  
• 13 December 1930 - 27 January 1931 : Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur
  Louis Loucheur was a French politician in the Third Republic, at first a member of the conservative Republican Federation, then of the Democratic Republican Alliance and of the Independent Radicals.-Life:Coming from a background in the arms industry, Loucheur became Minister of Munitions in...
  
  
• 27 January 1931 - 20 February 1932 : Louis Rollin
• 20 February 1932 - 3 June 1932 : Louis Rollin
• 3 June 1932 - 31 January 1933 : Julien Durand
• 31 January 1933 - 26 October 1933 : Louis Serre
• 26 October 1933 - 30 January 1934 : Laurent Eynac
  Laurent Eynac
  Laurent Eynac was a French politician who was appointed Minister of Transportation on 7 June 1935 until 24 January 1936.He was born in Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, Haute-Loire.-References:...
  
  
• 30 January 1934 - 9 February 1934 : Jean Mistler
  Jean Mistler
  Jean Mistler was a French writer born in Sorèze, Tarn. In 1966 he was elected to the Académie Française.Mistler, whose father's family had left Alsace in 1871, did his schooling in Sorèze, before preparing for the entrance examination of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure at the Lycée Henri IV, where...
  
  
• 9 February 1934 - 8 November 1934 : Lucien Lamoureux
  Lucien Lamoureux
  Lucien Lamoureux, PC, OC was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1966 to 1974...
  
  
• 8 November 1934 - 1 June 1935 : Paul Marchandeau
  Paul Marchandeau
  Paul Marchandeau was a French politician. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Légion d'honneur, for his actions during World War I. From 1925 until 1942, he was the mayor of Reims...
  
  
• 1 June 1935 - 7 June 1935 : Laurent Eynac
  Laurent Eynac
  Laurent Eynac was a French politician who was appointed Minister of Transportation on 7 June 1935 until 24 January 1936.He was born in Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille, Haute-Loire.-References:...
  
  
• 7 June 1935 - 4 June 1936 : Georges Bonnet
  Georges Bonnet
  Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :...
  
  
• 4 June 1936 - 22 June 1937 : Paul Bastid
• 22 June 1937 - 18 January 1938 : Fernand Chapsal
• 18 January 1938 - 10 April 1938 : Pierre Cot
  Pierre Cot
  .Pierre Cot , French politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s...
  
  
• 10 April 1938 - 21 March 1940 : Fernand Gentin
• 21 March 1940 - 18 May 1940 : Louis Rollin
• 18 May 1940 - 5 June 1940 : Léon Baréty
• 5 June 1940 - 16 June 1940 : Albert Chichery
• 16 June 1940 - 12 July 1940 : Yves Bouthillier
• 7 June 1943 - 9 November 1943 : André Diethelm (Commissaire)
• 22 January 1947 - 11 August 1947 : Jean Letourneau
• 11 August 1947 - 22 October 1947 : Robert Lacoste
  Robert Lacoste
  Robert Lacoste was French politician. He was a socialist MP of the Dordogne from 1945 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1967, then senator from 1971 to 1980.- Biography :...
  
  
• 24 November 1947 - 7 February 1950 : Robert Lacoste
  Robert Lacoste
  Robert Lacoste was French politician. He was a socialist MP of the Dordogne from 1945 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1967, then senator from 1971 to 1980.- Biography :...
  
  
• 7 February 1950 - 11 August 1951 : Jean-Marie Louvel
• 11 August 1951 - 20 January 1952 : Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Pflimlin
  Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.-Life:...
  
  
• 20 January 1952 - 8 March 1952 : Édouard Bonnefous
• 8 March 1952 - 8 January 1953 : Jean-Marie Louvel
• 8 January 1953 - 11 February 1953 : Paul Ribeyre
• 11 February 1953 - 28 June 1953 : Guy Petit
• 28 June 1953 - 19 June 1954 : Jean-Marie Louvel
• 19 June 1954 - 3 September 1954 : Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
  Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
  Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957.He is famous, especially, for fulfilling prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis....
  
  
• 3 September 1954 - 23 February 1955 : Henri Ulver
• 23 February 1955 - 1 February 1956 : André Morice
• 6 November 1957 - 1 June 1958 : Paul Ribeyre
• 9 June 1958 - 8 January 1959 : Édouard Ramonet
• 8 January 1959 - 14 April 1962 : Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
  Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
  Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was a minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 60s, as well as France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War...
  
  
• 6 July 1972 - 5 April 1973 : Yvon Bourges
• 5 April 1973 - 1 March 1974 : Jean Royer
  Jean Royer
  Jean Royer was a French catholic and conservative politician, former Minister, and former Mayor of Tours.-Mayor of Tours:...
  
  
• 1 March 1974 - 28 May 1974 : Yves Guéna
  Yves Guéna
  Yves Guéna is a French politician. In 1940, he joined the Free French Forces in the United Kingdom. He received several decorations for his courage....
  
  
• 28 May 1974 - 25 August 1976 : Vincent Ansquer
• 25 August 1976 - 30 March 1977 : Pierre Brousse
• 30 March 1977 - 5 April 1978 : René Monory
  René Monory
  René Monory was a French centre-right politician.-Biography:René Monory was born in Loudun and began his career as the owner of a garage. He was the founder of the Poitiers Futuroscope.Monory first became a Senator in 1968...
  
  
• 5 April 1978 - 4 July 1979 : Jacques Barrot
  Jacques Barrot
  Jacques Barrot is a French politician, who has served as European Commissioner for Justice , after four years as Commissioner for Transport and Commissioner for Regional Policy for eight months . He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission...
  
  
• 4 July 1979 - 22 May 1981 : Maurice Charretier
• 22 May 1981 - 22 March 1983 : André Delelis
  André Delelis
  André Delelis is a French politician. He served as the Minister of Commerce and Craft Industry from 1981 to 1984, under former President François Mitterand.-Biography:...
  
  
• 22 March 1983 - 19 February 1986 : Michel Crépeau
  Michel Crépeau
  Michel Crépeau was a French centre-left politician.Born in 1930, barrister, he joined the Radical Party. When it split in 1972, he founded the Movement of Left Radicals which chosen the alliance with the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party...
  
  
• 19 February 1986 - 20 March 1986 : Jean-Marie Bockel
  Jean-Marie Bockel
  Jean-Marie Bockel has been Secretary of State for Defence and Veterans in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon since 18 March 2008, having previously been Secretary of State for Cooperation and La Francophonie since June 2007...
  
  
• 29 March 1993 - 18 May 1995 : Alain Madelin
  Alain Madelin
  Alain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country.Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round...
  
  
• 18 May 1995 - 4 June 1997 : Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French conservative politician and senator for Vienne.Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin...
  
  
• 29 November 2004: Christian Jacob
  Christian Jacob (French politician)
  Christian Jacob was the Minister of French Civil Service in Jacques Chirac's second term as President of France...