List of Presidents of the French Senate

The French Senate 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 Third Republic in 1870, 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.

Presidents of the Senate, 1958-present

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Gaston Monnerville4 October 19582 October 1968

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Gaston Monnerville - 4 October - 1958 - 2 October - 1968

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Alain Poher2 October 19682 October 1992

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Alain Poher - 2 October - 1968 - 1992

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René Monory2 October 19921 October 1998

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René Monory - 2 October - 1992 - 1 October - 1998

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Christian Poncelet1 October 1998present

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Christian Poncelet - 1 October - 1998

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