List of Finance Ministers of France
Comptrollers-General of Finances, 1661–1791

List of Finance Ministers of France

Section Title: Comptrollers-General of Finances, 1661–1791
Table Section Text: None

Comptroller-General	Term start	Term end

Jean-Baptiste Colbert	4 May 1661	6 September 1683

Claude Le Pelletier	1683	1689

Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Ponchartrain	20 September 1689	1699

Michel Chamillart	5 September 1699	20 February 1708

Nicolas Desmarets	20 February 1708	15 September 1715

Adrien Maurice, duc de Noailles (President of the Finances Council)	1 October 1715	28 January 1718

Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force (vice-President of the Finances Council)	28 January 1718	5 January 1720

Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721) (President of the Finances Council)	28 January 1718	5 January 1720

John Law	5 January 1720	28 May 1720

Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts (Commissioner of Finance)	28 May 1720	11 December 1720

Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye	11 December 1720	21 April 1722

Charles Gaspard Dodun	21 April 1722	14 June 1726

Michel Robert Le Peletier des Forts	14 June 1726	19 March 1730

Philibert Orry	19 March 1730	5 December 1745

Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville	6 December 1745	30 July 1754

Jean Moreau de Séchelles	30 July 1754	24 April 1756

François Marie Peyrenc de Moras	24 April 1756	25 August 1757

Jean de Boullonges	25 August 1757	4 March 1759

Étienne de Silhouette	4 March 1759	21 November 1759

Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin	23 November 1759	14 December 1763

Clément Charles François de Laverdy	14 December 1763	20 September 1768

Étienne Maynon d'Invault	22 September 1768	19 December 1769

Joseph Marie Terray	22 December 1769	24 August 1774

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot	24 August 1774	12 May 1776

Jean Étienne Bernard Ogier de Clugny	21 May 1776	18 October 1776

Louis-Gabriel Taboureau des Réaux	21 October 1776	29 June 1777

Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)	29 June 1777	19 May 1781

Jean-François Joly de Fleury	21 May 1781	29 March 1783

Henri François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson	29 March 1783	1 November 1783

Charles Alexandre de Calonne	3 November 1783	9 April 1787

Michel Bouvard de Fourqueux	10 April 1787	1 May 1787

Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (President of the Royal Council of Finances)	1 May 1787	25 August 1788

Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)	26 August 1788	11 July 1789

Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil (President of the Royal Council of Finances)	13 July 1789	16 July 1789

Jacques Necker (Director-General of Finances)	16 July 1789	4 September 1790

Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert	4 September 1790	4 December 1790

Claude Antoine Valdec de Lessart	4 December 1790	27 April 1791

Sentence(s)

Orry remained Controller-General until 1745, making him the longest continuously-serving holder of the office in the eighteenth-century.

final_sentence: Orry remained Controller-General until 1745, making him the longest continuously-serving holder of the office in the eighteenth-century.