Title of the office of the French head of government during earlier periods of French history.
1 Official communications were carried on through the president of the council of state.
2 To him was assigned the position of president of the council .
3 Palmerston was to be president of the council , and Ellenborough minister of war.
4 These are not sealed, but bear the signature of the president of the council .
5 He had ejected Rodrigo de Vasquez from his post as president of the council .
6 Prof Dervilla Donnelly was elected senior vice- president of the council .
7 The Earl of Rochester, the bitterest of all the Tories, was appointed president of the council .
8 China is president of the council for February.
9 She is president of the council this month.
10 Ambassador Claude Heller, current president of the council .
11 The Marquis de Courtornieu, who acted as president of the council , was nearly exhausted with exclaiming:
12 This nobleman was already president of the council ; and soon after was made lord keeper and treasurer.
13 Trickett retains his other roles as shadow lord president of the council and Labour's national campaigns co-ordinator.
14 The president of the council of Italy, after Granvelle's death, was Quiroga, cardinal of Toledo, and inquisitor-general.
15 Among these, and not the least animated, was the bishop Fonseca, president of the council of the Indies.
16 It would not do for him to appear, however, both as a shareholder and president of the council .
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