French order of precedence

The French order of precedence is a symbolic hierarchy of officials in the Government of France used to direct protocol.

The current order of precedence was established by [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/texteconsolide/PPHLX.htm presidential decree number 89-655] of September 13, 1989.

#The President of the Republic (Nicolas Sarkozy)
#The Prime Minister (François Fillon)
#The President of the Senate (Gérard Larcher)
#The President of the National Assembly (Bernard Accoyer)
#Former Presidents of the Republic, in the order of their assumption of duties
##Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
##Jacques Chirac
#The Government (Ministers forming the Government), in the order of the nomination decided by the President of the Republic
#Former Prime Ministers
##Pierre Mauroy
##Laurent Fabius
##Michel Rocard
##Édith Cresson
##Édouard Balladur
##Alain Juppé
##Lionel Jospin
##Jean-Pierre Raffarin
##Dominique de Villepin
#The President of the Constitutional Council (Jean-Louis Debré)
#The Vice President of the "Conseil d'État"
#The President of the Economic and Social Council
#Members of the National Assembly
#Senators
#The judicial authority represented by the first President of the Court of Cassation and the public prosecutor of that court
#The first President of the Revenue Court ("Cour des Comptes") (Philippe Séguin) and the public prosecutor of that court
#The Great Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur, the chancellor of the National Order of Merit, and the members of the councils of these orders
#The Chancellor of the Order of the Libération, and the members of the council of this order
#The Chief of Staff of the Armies
#The Ombudsman of the Republic "(Médiateur)"

The following then apply in Paris
#The prefect of the "Île-de-France" "région", prefect of Paris
#The prefect of police, prefect of the Paris defense zone
#The mayor of Paris, president of the Council of Paris (Bertrand Delanoë)
#The representatives to the European Parliament
#The chancellor of the Institute of France, the perpetual secretaries of the French Academy, the "Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres", the Academy of Sciences, of the "Académie des beaux-arts" and of the Academy of moral and political sciences
#The general secretary of the government; the general secretary of national defense; the general secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs
#The president of the administrative court of appeal of Paris; the first president of the Paris court of appeal and the general public prosecutor of that court
#The general delegate for weaponry; the general secretary for administration of the Ministry of defense; the chief of staff of the army; the chief of staff of the navy; the chief of staff of the air force; the military governor of Paris, commanding the Île-de-France army region
#The president of the high council of broadcasting
#The president of the national commission "computing and freedoms" (CNIL)
#The president of the concurrence council
#The rector of the Paris academy, chancellor of the universities of Paris