For the commissariat services in other countries, see commissariat

Commissariat

A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops. The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat. In almost every army the duties of transport and supply are performed by the...

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The Commissariat de l'armée de terre (CAT) is the commissariat

Commissariat

A commissariat is the department of an army charged with the provision of supplies, both food and forage, for the troops. The supply of military stores such as ammunition is not included in the duties of a commissariat. In almost every army the duties of transport and supply are performed by the...

 branch of the French Army

French Army

The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.As of 2010, the army employs 123,100 regulars, 18,350 part-time reservists and 7,700 Legionnaires. All soldiers are professionals, following the suspension of conscription, voted in...

. Its equivalent for the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

 is the Commissariat de la marine (SCM) and for the French Air Force

French Air Force

The French Air Force , literally Army of the Air) is the air force of the French Armed Forces. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique, a service arm of the French Army, then was made an independent military arm in 1933...

 the Service de l'administration générale et des finances de l'armée de l'air (SAGF) (formerly known as the commissariat de l'air) - a member of any of these three is known as a commissaire aux armées (commissioner to the armies). It now carries out the general administration and finances of France's land forces. It is led by commissaires or commissioners, officers recruited by competition among university graduates.

Its roles had been carried out since at least the 14th century and the creation of commissioners for war by John the Good. Its direct predecessor was the corps des inspecteurs aux revues et des commissaires des Guerres or intendance militaire set up by an ordnance of Louis XVIII of France

Louis XVIII of France

Louis XVIII , known as "the Unavoidable", was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824, omitting the Hundred Days in 1815...

on 29 July 1817. It was renamed the Commissariat de l'armée de terre in 1984 and existed under that name as the Direction centrale for the army until 1 January 2010. At that date, with the other two branches' commissariats, it was put under the Direction centrale du service du commissariat des armées.

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