Chief minister of France

Not to be confused with Prime Minister of France.

The chief minister of France or, closer to the French term, chief minister of state (French: principal ministre d'État), or prime minister of France were and are informal titles given to various personages who received various degrees of power to rule the Kingdom of France on behalf of the monarch during the Ancien Régime ('Old Regime'). The appellation was not a position (nobody was ever appointed to the role of chief minister), but rather a job description for a royal favourite given wide-ranging powers as head of government. The chief minister was always a high official, often a secretary of state, or sometimes chancellor of France. When the monarch was a minor, the regent held this role.

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