List of Naval Ministers of France
Secretaries of State for the Navy, 1547–1790

List of Naval Ministers of France

Section Title: Secretaries of State for the Navy, 1547–1790
Table Section Text: None

Secretary	Began	Ended

Côme Clausse, seigneur de Marchaumont	14 September 1547	1558

Florimond II Robertet, seigneur de Fresnes	1558	October 1567

Claude de l’Aubespine, seigneur d’Hauterive	1 April 1547	1567

Jacques Bourdin, seigneur de Villeines	1558	1567

Martin Ruze, seigneur de Beaulieu	15 September 1588	6 November 1613

Antoine de Loménie, seigneur de la Ville aux Clercs	7 November 1613	10 August 1615 (he left the post on this date, but retained the precedence and the functions)

Henri Auguste de Loménie, seigneur de la Ville aux Clercs	13 July 1615	February 1643

Henry de Guénegaud, marquis de Plancy	23 March 1643	1662

Hugues de Lionne, marquis de Fresne	4 February 1662	1669

Jean-Baptiste Colbert	7 March 1669	1683

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay	September 1683	3 November 1690

Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain	7 November 1690	6 September 1699

Jérôme Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain	6 September 1699	1 October 1715

Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse and Victor Marie d'Estrées (Presidents of the Council of Marine)	1 October 1715	24 September 1718

Joseph Jean Baptiste Fleuriau d'Armenonville	24 September 1718	28 February 1722

Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau, comte de Morville	28 February 1722	16 August 1723

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas	16 August 1723	23 April 1749

Antoine Louis Rouillé	30 April 1749	24 July 1754

Jean Baptiste de Machault D'Arnouville	24 July 1754	1 February 1757

François Marie Peyrenc de Moras	1 February 1757	31 May 1758

Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac	31 May 1758	31 October 1758

Nicolas René Berryer	31 October 1758	13 October 1761

Étienne François, duc de Choiseul	13 October 1761	10 April 1766

César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny, duc de Praslin	10 April 1766	24 December 1770

Joseph Marie Terray	24 December 1770	9 April 1771

Pierre Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes	9 April 1771	20 July 1774

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot	20 July 1774	24 August 1774

Antoine de Sartine	24 August 1774	13 October 1780

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries	13 October 1780	24 August 1787

Armand Marc, comte de Montmorin Saint-Hérem	25 August 1787	24 December 1787

César Henri, comte de La Luzerne	24 December 1787	13 July 1789

Arnaud de Laporte	13 July 1789	16 July 1789

César Henri, comte de La Luzerne	16 July 1789	26 October 1790

Sentence(s)

On August 24, Sartine was appointed as Secretary of State for the Navy.

final_sentence: On August 24, Sartine was appointed as Secretary of State for the Navy.