Francis Perrin, Jean Hyppolite, François Perroux, Pierre Massé, Louis Armand, FrançoisBloch-Lainé [fr], Jean Rostand, François Mauriac, Antoine Lacassagne
1925-1934 Henri Deroy [fr], 1935-1945 Jean Watteau [fr], 1945-1952 FrançoisBloch-Lainé [fr], 1952-1967 Maurice Pérouse [fr], 1967-1982 Robert Lion [fr]
civil servant FrançoisBloch-Lainé in a 1977 report on the Opera's management and perspectives. In 1981, the newly elected President François Mitterrand