List of presidents of the Senate of France
Name Took office Left office
Claude-Antoine Rudel 28 October 1795 28 October 1795
Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux 28 October 1795 2 November 1795
Pierre-Charles-Louis Baudin 2 November 1795 23 November 1795
François Denis Tronchet 23 November 1795 22 December 1795
Théodore Vernier 22 December 1795 22 January 1796
Guillaume François Charles Goupil de Préfelne 22 January 1796 20 February 1796
Claude Ambroise Régnier 20 February 1796 21 March 1796
Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche 21 March 1796 20 April 1796
Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu 20 April 1796 20 May 1796
Charles-François Lebrun 20 May 1796 19 June 1796
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis 19 June 1796 19 July 1796
Jean Dussaulx 19 July 1796 18 August 1796
Honoré Muraire 18 August 1796 23 September 1796
Roger Ducos 23 September 1796 22 October 1796
Jean-Gérard Lacuée , count of Cessac 22 October 1796 21 November 1796
Jean-Jacques Bréard 21 November 1796 21 December 1796
Boniface Paradis 21 December 1796 20 January 1797
Sébastien Ligeret de Beauvais 20 January 1797 19 February 1797
Joseph Clément Poullain de Grandprey 19 February 1797 21 March 1797
Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas 21 March 1797 20 April 1797
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The Senate of France is the upper house of the French Parliament. It is presided over by a president. Although there had been Senates in both the First and Second Empires, these had not technically been legislative bodies, but rather advisory bodies on the model of the Roman Senate. France's first experience with an upper house was under the Directory from 1795 to 1799, when the Council of Ancients was the upper chamber. With the Restoration in 1814, a new Chamber of Peers was created, on the model of the British House of Lords. At first it contained hereditary peers, but following the July Revolution of 1830, it became a body to which one was appointed for life. The Second Republic returned to a unicameral system after 1848, but soon after the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852, a Senate was established as the upper chamber. In the Fourth Republic, the Senate was renamed the Council of the Republic, but its function was largely the same. With the new constitution of the Fifth Republic in 1959, the older name of Senate was restored.