French Head of State was a transitional title for the head of the French government from August 1840 to February 1848. The title was held by Louis-Philippe of France, who was King of France. Following the establishment of the Second French Republic, this title was passed onto the President of the French Republic or also known as the Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.
A list of this title:
- Louis-Philippe of France: 1830–February 1848 as Head of State and King of France
- Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure: February–May 1848 as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
- Executive Commissioners
- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin: May–June 1848
- Alphonse de Lamartine: May–June 1848
- François Arago: May–June 1848
- Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès: May–June 1848
- Pierre Marie (de Saint-Georges): May–June 1848
- Louis Eugène Cavaignac: June–December 1848 as President of the Council of Ministers
- Napoleon III of France: December 1848–1870 as first formal President of the French Republic, later Emperor of the French.
- Louis Jules Trochu: 1870–1871 as chairman of the Government of National Defense
- Adolphe Thiers: 1871 as chairman of the Government of National Defense
This generic title is somewhat similar to the Chief of the French State title held by Philippe Pétain from 1940 to 1944.
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Philip Marlowe: Who’s he?
Vivian: You wouldn’t know him. French writer.
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—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)