First Republic (1792-1804)
Bonaparte Dynasty - First Empire (1804-1814)
Napoleon I May 18, 1804 - April 11, 1814 (and then again from March 20 to June 22, 1815)
Napoleon II June 22, 1815 - July 7, 1815
Bourbon Dynasty, Restored (1814-1830)
Louis XVIII May 2, 1814 - September 16, 1824 (except between March 13 and July 7, 1815)
Charles X September 16, 1824 - August 2, 1830
Bourbon-Orléans, The Monarchy of July (1830-1848)
Louis-Philippe, The Citizen King August 9, 1830 - February 24, 1848
Second French Republic (1848 - 1852)
Bonaparte Dynasty, Restored Second Empire (1852-1870)
Napoleon III, Emperor (previously president of France from 1849 - 1852 December 2, 1852 - September 4, 1870
Presidents of France
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1848-1852 (proclaimed himself Emperor in 1852, ruled until 1870 when republican rule was restored.)
Interim President
Louis Jules Trochu, 1870-1871
Third Republic
Adolphe Thiers, 1871-1873 (Thiers became president before the adoption of the Constitution of 1875 so his constitutional position was different from that of later presidents.)
Patrice Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, 1873-1879
Jules Grévy, 1879-1887
Marie François Sadi Carnot, 1887-1894
Jean Casimir-Périer, 1894-1895
Félix Faure, 1895-1899
Émile Loubet, 1899-1906
Armand Fallières, 1906-1913
Raymond Poincaré, 1913-1920
Paul Deschanel, February 18, 1920 - September 21, 1920
Alexandre Millerand, 1920-1924
Gaston Doumergue, 1924-1931
Paul Doumer, 1931-1932
Albert Lebrun, 1932-1940
Vichy France
Henri Philippe Pétain, 1940-1944 ("Head of State", not President)
Free France
Charles de Gaulle, 1940-1944 ("Head of the Free French", not President)
Provisional Government of the Republic ("Chairman of the Provisional Government", not President)