List of education ministers of France

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This page is a list of French education ministers .

A governmental position overseeing public education was first created in France in 1802. Following the various regime changes in France in the first decades of the 19th century, the position changed official status and name a number of times before the position of Minister of Public Instruction was created in 1828. For much of its history, the position was combined with that of Minister of Public Worship, who dealt with issues related to the Roman Catholic Church, except in instances where the Minister of Public Instruction was a Protestant. The position has also occasionally been combined with Minister of Sports and Minister of Youth Affairs. In 1932, the office's title was changed to Minister of National Education, although it was briefly changed back in 1940–1941, and was renamed Minister of Education during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974–1981).

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Administrators (various titles) of Public Instruction or the University, 1802–1828

MinisterBeganEnded
Antoine François Fourcroy (Directeur général de l'Instruction publique)14 September 180217 March 1808
Louis de Fontanes (Grand maître de l'Université)17 March 180817 February 1815
Louis-François de Bausset (Président du Conseil royal de l'Instruction publique)17 February 181520 March 1815
Bernard Étienne Germain de la Ville sur Illon (Grand maître de l'Université impériale)20 March 18159 May 1815
Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (Grand maître de l'Université impériale)9 May 181515 August 1815
Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard (Président de la commission de l'Instruction publique)15 August 18151818
Frédéric Cuvier (Grand maître de l'Université)13 September 18191 November 1820
Élie Decazes (Président de la commission de l'Instruction publique)29 December 181821 February 1820
Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon (Président de la commission de l'Instruction publique)21 February 18204 October 1820
Joseph Louis Joachim Lainé (Président du Conseil royal de l'Instruction publique)4 October 182021 December 1820
Joseph Louis Joachim Lainé 21 December 182031 July 1821
Jacques Joseph Guillaume François Pierre Corbière (Président du Conseil royal de l'Instruction publique)31 July 18211 June 1822
Frédéric Cuvier (Président par intérim du Conseil royal de l'Instruction publique)1 June 182226 August 1824
Denis-Luc Frayssinous (Grand maître de l'Université royale)26 August 18241 February 1828
Denis-Luc Frayssinous (Ministre des Affaires ecclésiastiques et de l'Instruction publique)1 February 182810 February 1828

Ministers of Public Instruction, 1828–1932

MinisterBeganEnded
Antoine François Henri Lefebvre de Vatimesnil 10 February 18288 August 1829
Guillaume Isidore, comte de Montbel 8 August 182918 November 1829
Martial, comte de Guernon-Ranville 18 November 182931 July 1830
François Guizot 31 July 18301 August 1830
Louis, baron Bignon 1 August 183011 August 1830
Achille Léonce Victor Charles, duc de Broglie 11 August 18302 November 1830
Joseph Mérilhou 2 November 183027 November 1830
Félix Barthe 27 November 183013 March 1831
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet 13 March 183130 April 1832
Louis Gaspard Amédée, baron Girod de l'Ain 30 April 183211 October 1832
François Guizot 11 October 183210 November 1834
Jean-Baptiste Teste 10 November 183418 November 1834
François Guizot 18 November 183422 February 1836
Privat Joseph Claramont, comte Pelet de la Lozère 22 February 18366 September 1836
François Guizot 6 September 183615 April 1837
Narcisse Achille de Salvandy 15 April 183731 March 1839
Narcisse Parant 31 March 183912 May 1839
Abel-François Villemain 12 May 18391 March 1840
Victor Cousin 1 March 184029 October 1840
Abel-François Villemain 29 October 18401 February 1845
Narcisse Achille de Salvandy 1 February 184524 February 1848
Hippolyte Carnot 24 February 18485 July 1848
Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle 5 July 184813 October 1848
Alexandre Pierre Freslon 13 October 184820 December 1848
Alfred Frédéric, comte de Falloux 20 December 184831 October 1849
Marie Louis Pierre Félix Esquirou de Parieu 31 October 184924 January 1851
Charles Giraud 24 January 185110 April 1851
Marie Jean Pierre Pie Frédéric Dombidau de Crouseilhes 10 April 185126 October 1851
Charles Giraud 26 October 18513 December 1851
Hippolyte Fortoul 3 December 18517 June 1856
Gustave Rouland 13 August 185623 June 1863
Victor Duruy 23 June 186317 July 1869
Louis Olivier Bourbeau 17 July 18692 January 1870
Émile Alexis Segris 2 January 187014 April 1870
Maurice Richard 14 April 187015 May 1870
Jacques Philippe Mège 15 May 187010 August 1870
Jules Louis Joseph Brame 10 August 18704 September 1870
Jules Simon 5 September 187017 May 1873
William Henry Waddington 18 May 187325 May 1873
Anselme Batbie 25 May 187326 November 1873
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou 26 November 187322 May 1874
Arthur de Cumont 22 May 187410 March 1875
Henri-Alexandre Wallon 10 March 18759 March 1876
William Henry Waddington 9 March 187617 May 1877
Joseph Brunet 17 May 187723 November 1877
Hervé Faye 23 November 187713 December 1877
Agénor Bardoux 13 December 18774 February 1879
Jules Ferry 4 February 187914 November 1881
Paul Bert 14 November 188130 January 1882
Jules Ferry 30 January 18827 August 1882
Jules Duvaux 7 August 188221 February 1883
Jules Ferry 21 February 188320 November 1883
Armand Fallières 20 November 18836 April 1885
René Goblet 6 April 188511 December 1886
Marcellin Berthelot 11 December 188630 May 1887
Eugène Spuller 30 May 188712 December 1887
Léopold Faye 12 December 18873 April 1888
Édouard Lockroy 3 April 188822 February 1889
Armand Fallières 22 February 188917 March 1890
Léon Bourgeois 17 March 18906 December 1892
Charles Dupuy 6 December 18924 April 1893
Raymond Poincaré 4 April 18933 December 1893
Eugène Spuller 3 December 189330 May 1894
Georges Leygues 30 May 189426 January 1895
Raymond Poincaré 26 January 18951 November 1895
Émile Combes 1 November 189529 April 1896
Alfred Rambaud 29 April 189628 June 1898
Léon Bourgeois 28 June 18981 November 1898
Georges Leygues 1 November 18987 June 1902
Joseph Chaumié 7 June 190224 January 1905
Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin 24 January 190514 March 1906
Aristide Briand 14 March 19064 January 1908
Gaston Doumergue 4 January 19083 November 1910
Maurice Faure 3 November 19102 March 1911
Théodore Steeg 2 March 191114 January 1912
Gabriel Guist'hau 14 January 191221 January 1913
Théodore Steeg 21 January 191322 March 1913
Louis Barthou 22 March 19139 December 1913
René Viviani 9 December 19139 June 1914
Arthur Dessoye 9 June 191413 June 1914
Victor Augagneur 13 June 19143 August 1914
Albert Sarraut 3 August 191429 October 1915
Paul Painlevé 29 October 191512 December 1916
René Viviani 12 December 191620 March 1917
Théodore Steeg 20 March 191712 September 1917
Charles Daniel-Vincent 12 September 191716 November 1917
Louis Lafferre 16 November 191727 November 1919
Léon Bérard 27 November 191920 January 1920
André Honorrat 20 January 192016 January 1921
Léon Bérard 16 January 192129 March 1924
Henry de Jouvenel 29 March 19249 June 1924
Adolphe Landry 9 June 192414 June 1924
François Albert 14 June 192417 April 1925
Anatole de Monzie 17 April 192511 October 1925
Yvon Delbos 11 October 192528 November 1925
Édouard Daladier 28 November 19259 March 1926
Lucien Lamoureux 9 March 192623 June 1926
Bertrand Nogaro 23 June 192619 July 1926
Édouard Daladier 19 July 192623 July 1926
Édouard Herriot 23 July 192611 November 1928
Pierre Marraud 11 November 192821 February 1930
Jean Durand 21 February 19302 March 1930
Pierre Marraud 2 March 193013 December 1930
Camille Chautemps 13 December 193027 January 1931
Mario Roustan 27 January 19313 June 1932

Ministers of National Education, 1932–present

MinisterBeganEnded
Anatole de Monzie 3 June 193230 January 1934
Aimé Berthod 30 January 19348 November 1934
André Mallarmé 8 November 19341 June 1935
Mario Roustan 1 June 19357 June 1935
Philippe Marcombes 7 June 193513 June 1935
Mario Roustan 17 June 193524 January 1936
Henri Guernut 24 January 19364 June 1936
Jean Zay 4 June 193610 September 1939
Yvon Delbos 13 September 193921 March 1940
Albert Sarraut 21 March 19405 June 1940
Yvon Delbos 5 June 194016 June 1940
Albert Rivaud 16 June 194012 July 1940
Émile Mireaux (Minister of Public Instruction)12 July 19406 September 1940
Georges Ripert (Minister of Public Instruction)6 September 194013 December 1940
Jacques Chevalier (Minister of Public Instruction)13 December 194023 February 1941
Jérôme Carcopino 25 February 194118 April 1942
Abel Bonnard 18 April 194219 August 1944
René Capitant 19 August 194421 November 1945
Paul Giacobbi 21 November 194526 January 1946
Marcel Edmond Naegelen 26 January 194612 February 1948
Édouard Depreux 12 February 194826 July 1948
Yvon Delbos 26 July 19485 September 1948
Michel Tony-Révillon 5 September 194811 September 1948
Yvon Delbos 11 September 19482 July 1950
André Morice 2 July 195012 July 1950
Pierre-Olivier Lapie 12 July 195011 August 1952
André Marie 11 August 195219 June 1954
Jean Berthoin 19 June 19541 February 1956
René Billères 1 February 195614 May 1958
Jacques Bordeneuve 14 May 19581 June 1958
Jean Berthoin 1 June 19588 January 1959
André Boulloche 8 January 195923 December 1959
Michel Debré 23 December 195915 January 1960
Louis Joxe 15 January 196023 November 1960
Pierre Guillaumat 23 November 196020 February 1961
Lucien Paye 20 February 196115 April 1962
Pierre Sudreau 15 April 196215 October 1962
Louis Joxe 15 October 196228 November 1962
Christian Fouchet 28 November 19626 April 1967
Alain Peyrefitte 6 April 196730 May 1968
François-Xavier Ortoli 30 May 196810 July 1968
Edgar Faure 10 July 196823 June 1969
Olivier Guichard 23 June 19697 July 1972
Joseph Fontanet 7 July 197228 May 1974
René Haby (Minister of Education)28 May 19745 April 1978
Christian Beullac (Minister of Education)5 April 197822 May 1981
Alain Savary 22 May 198119 July 1984
Jean-Pierre Chevènement 19 July 198420 March 1986
René Monory 20 March 198612 May 1988
Lionel Jospin 12 May 19882 April 1992
Jack Lang 2 April 199229 March 1993
François Bayrou 29 March 19934 June 1997
Claude Allègre 4 June 199728 March 2000
Jack Lang 28 March 20007 May 2002
Luc Ferry 7 May 200231 March 2004
François Fillon 31 March 20042 June 2005
Gilles de Robien 2 June 200515 May 2007
Xavier Darcos 18 May 200723 June 2009
Luc Chatel 23 June 200916 May 2012
Vincent Peillon 16 May 201231 March 2014
Benoît Hamon 2 April 201425 August 2014
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem 26 August 201417 May 2017
Jean-Michel Blanquer 17 May 201720 May 2022
Pap Ndiaye 20 May 202220 July 2023
Gabriel Attal 20 July 20239 January 2024
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra 11 January 202408 February 2024
Nicole Belloubet 08 February 202421 September 2024
Anne Genetet 21 September 2024

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