The military governor of Paris is a post within the French Army. He commands the garrison of Paris and represents all the military based in Paris at high state occasions. He is also responsible (subordinate to the President of France) for organizing major national ceremonies such as the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Élysées.
The foundation of the post is blurred, but it has subsequently evolved in two phases. Under the Ancien Régime, its role was limited in comparison to his colleagues in the provinces, who represented the King of France in his absence, whereas in Paris the King was present. The post was dispensed with at the time of the French Revolution before being re-established by Napoleon in 1804, when it was reinforced by becoming a military-command role.
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List of governors
Governors of Paris under the Ancien Régime
Louis I d'Anjou: 1356–1357
Jean de Berry: 1411
Waléran III de Luxembourg: 1411–1413
Jean II de Luxembourg: 1418–1420
Marshal Jean de La Baume: 1422–142.
Jean de Villiers: 1429–14..
Philippe de Ternant: 14..–14..
Jacques de Villiers: 1461
Charles d'Artois, Count of Eu: 1465
Charles de Melun, Baron of the Landes and of Normanville: 1465–1467
Charles I d'Amboise, Count of Brienne: 1467–1470
Charles de Gaucourt, Viscount of Aix: 14..–1472
Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin: 1472–147.
Guillaume de Poitiers, Seigneur de Clérieux: 1478–14..
Louis d'Orléans: 1483–1485
Antoine de Chabannes, Count of Dammartin: 1485–1488
Gilbert de Montpensier: 14..–1494
Charles II d'Amboise: 1493–1496
Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, Lord of Barbezieux: 15..–15..
Marshal Paul de Thermes: 1559–1562
General commanders of the Armed Forces in Paris
General Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry: 1791–1792
General Jacques-François de Menou: 1792–1794
General Jean Thierry: 1794–1795
General Jacques-François de Menou: 1795
General Paul de Barras: 1795
General Napoléon Bonaparte: 1795–1796
General Jacques Maurice Hatry: 1796–1797
General Pierre Augereau: 1797
General Louis Lemoine: 1797
General Jean-François Moulin: 1797–1798
General Joseph Gilot: 1798–1799
General Barthélemy Catherine Joubert: 1799
General Jean-Antoine Marbot: 1799
General François Joseph Lefebvre: 1799–1800
General Édouard Mortier: 1800–1803
General Jean-Andoche Junot: 1803–1804
Military governors of Paris after the French Revolution
General Joachim Murat: 1804–1805
Prince Louis Bonaparte: 1805–1806
Marshal Joachim Murat: 1806
General Jean-Andoche Junot: 1806–1807
General Pierre-Augustin Hulin: 1807–1814
General Louis de Rochechouart: 1814
General Louis Sébastien Grundler: May 1814–January 1815
General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1815
General Pierre-Augustin Hulin: 1815 (Hundred Days)
Marshal André Masséna: July 1815
General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: July–September 1815
General Hyacinthe Despinoy: 1815–1816
Marshal Catherine Dominique de Pérignon: 1816–1818
General Nicolas-Joseph Maison: 1819–1821
Marshal Auguste de Marmont: 1821–1830
General Pierre-Claude Pajol: 1830–1842
General Tiburce Sébastiani: 1842–1848
General Nicolas Changarnier: 1848–1851
General Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers: 1851
Military governors of Paris under the German occupation
Under the German occupation of France, Paris had at least three German military governors:
General Otto von Stülpnagel
General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, cousin of the former
General Dietrich von Choltitz
Military governors of Paris since 1944
General Philippe Leclerc: 1944
General Marie-Pierre Kœnig: 1944–1945
General Paul Legentilhomme: 1945–1947
Army general René Chouteau: 16 January 1947–March 1953
Army general Henri Zeller: 1953–1957
General Louis-Constant Morlière: 1957–1958
General Pierre Garbay: 1958–1959
General Raoul Salan: 1959–1960
Army general Maurice Gazin: 1960
Army general André Demetz: 1960–1962
General Louis Dodelier: 1962–1965
General Philippe de Camas: 1965–1968
General André Meltz: 1968–1971
Army general Bernard Usureau: 1971–1974
Army corps general Philippe Clave: 1974–1975
General Jean Favreau: 1975–1977
Army corps general Jacques de Barry: 1977–1980
Army general Jeannou Lacaze: 15 September 1980–1981
Army corps general Roger Périer: 1981–1982
Army general Alban Barthez: 1 September 1982