The post of military governor of Paris is a very old and prestigious post in 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...

. He commands the garrison of Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and represents all the military based in Paris at high state occasions. He is also responsible (subordinate to the President of France) for organising major national ceremonies such as the Bastille Day Military Parade

Bastille Day Military Parade

The Bastille Day Military Parade is a French military parade that has been held on the morning of 14 July each year in Paris since 1880, almost without exception....

 down the Champs-Élysées

Champs-Élysées

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a prestigious avenue in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets and one of the most expensive strip of real estate in the world. The name is...

.

The foundation of the post is shadowy, 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 in his absence, whereas in Paris the king was present. The post was dispensed with at the time of the French Revolution

French Revolution

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 before being re-established by Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

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 in 1804, when it was reinforced by becoming a military-command role.

List of governors

• général Louis Augustin comte d’Affry
• général de division François Joseph Lefebvre
  François Joseph Lefebvre
  François Joseph Lefebvre, First Duc de Dantzig was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon....
  
   : 1799
• général Jean Andoche Junot 1801
• maréchal Joachim Murat
  Joachim Murat
  Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...
  
   : 1804-1805
• général Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
  Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
  Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon armies of the Napoleonic Wars.- A peripatetic childhood :...
  
   : 1814
• général Louis, baron Grundler: May 1814-January 1815
• général Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
  Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart
  Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart was a French general of the House of Rochechouart fighting in the Royalist, Imperial Russian and Bourbon armies of the Napoleonic Wars.- A peripatetic childhood :...
  
   : 1815-1823
• général Louis Jules Trochu
  Louis Jules Trochu
  Louis Jules Trochu was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense—France's de facto head of state—from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 .- Military career :He was born at Palais...
  
   : 1870
• général Paul de Ladmirault
  Paul de Ladmirault
  Paul de Ladmirault was a French general active in the French conquest of Algeria and during the wars of the Second French Empire.- Life :...
  
   : 1871-1878
• général Édouard Aymard : 1878-1880
• général de division Félix Gustave Saussier : 1884-1897
• général Zurlinden : 1898
• général Brugère : 1899
• général de division Georges Auguste Florentin : 1900-1901
• général de division Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Gallieni
  Joseph Simon Gallieni was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921...
  
   : 1914-1916
• général Yvon Dubail : 1916-1918
• général Adolphe Guillaumat
  Adolphe Guillaumat
  Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat was a French Army general during World War I.-Early years:Adolphe Guillaumat graduated first from his class of 1884 at the Saint-Cyr military academy....
  
   : 1918
• général Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud : 1923-1937
• général Gaston Billotte : 1937-1939
• géneral Pierre Héring : 1939-1940
• général Leclerc : 1944
• général Marie Pierre Kœnig : (1944-1945)
• général Paul Legentilhomme
  Paul Legentilhomme
  Paul Legentilhomme was an officer in the French Army during World War I and World War II. After the fall of France in 1940, he joined the forces of the Free French...
  
   : (1945-19??)
• général d’armée René Jean-Charles Chouteau : (16 January 1947-December 1950?)
• général d'armée Henri Zeller (-1957)
• général Louis-Constant Morlière (1957-1958)
• général Salan
• général Pierre-François-Marie-Joseph Garbay : (59-01/04/61)
• général d’armée Maurice Gazin : (start of the 1960s)
• général d'armée André Metz : (c. 1968)
• général d'arméeBernard Usureau: 1971-1974
• général de corps d'armée Philippe Clave 1974-1975
• général d’armée Jeannou Lacaze
  Jeannou Lacaze
  Jeannou Lacaze was a French army officer and politician who served in World War II, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War before entering politics....
  
   15 September 1980
• général de corps d'armée Jacques de Barry (c 1980)
• général de corps d'armée Michel Fennebresque : (20 June 1984-?)
• général de corps d'armée Hervé Navereau : 28 January 1987-?
• général d'armée Daniel Valéry : 1 September 1991
• général de corps d'armée Michel Guignon : 1 August 1992
• général de corps d’armée Michel Billot : 28 October 1996
• général de corps d’armée Pierre Costedoat : 1 August 2000
• général de corps d'armée Marcel Valentin : 1 November 2002
• général de corps d'armée Xavier de Zuchowicz : from 1 August 2005 (156th)
• général de corps d'armée Bruno Dary : from 1 August 2007

Under the German occupation of France, Paris had at least two German military governors:

• general Otto von Stülpnagel
  Otto von Stülpnagel
  Otto von Stülpnagel was the German military commander of France during the Second World War. Born 16 June 1878 in Berlin, Otto von Stülpnagel pursued a military career in keeping with his family’s long tradition of military service...
  
  
• general Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
  Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
  Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, was a German general and a member of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.-Early life:...
  
  , cousin of the former
• general Dietrich von Choltitz
  Dietrich von Choltitz
  General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz was the German military governor of Paris during the closing days of the German occupation of that city during World War II...
  
  

External links

• Military government of Paris