List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

This is the List of ambassadors from France to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

French Ambassadors

French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688)

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15261535Charles de Solier, comte de Morette[1]
15351537Antoine de Castelnau[2]
15371538Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon[3]
15381543Charles de Marillac[4]
15431546Aymar Chaste[5]
15461548Odet de Selve[6]
15531556Antoine de Noailles, 1st comte de Noailles[7]
15561557François de Noailles[7]
15581559Gilles de Noailles[a][7]
15601562Michel de Sèvre[b][7]
15621566Paul de Foix de Carmain[8]
15661568Jacques Bochetel de la Forest[7]
15681574Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon[7]
15741584Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissiére[7]
15851589Guillaume de l'Aubespine de Châteauneuf[7]
15891592Aymar Chaste[c][9]
16021605Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont[7]
16061613Antoine Lefèvre de la Boderie[7]
16111615Samuel Spifame, Sieur des Bisseaux[10]
16151618Gaspard Dauvet, Sieur des Marets[10]
16181621Honoré d'Albret de Cadenet[11]
16251625Jean de Varigniez, Sieur de Blainville[12]
16261627François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France[12]
16291630Charles de L'Aubespine, Marquis of Châteauneuf[12]
16301633François du Val de Fontenay-Mareuil, Marquis of Fontenay Mareuil[12]
16331635Jean d'Angennes, Marquis de Poygni[12]
16351637Henri I de Saint-Nectaire
16371640Pompone de Bellièvre
16401641Jean de Montereul[12]
16411643Jacques d'Estampes de La Ferté-Imbert
16451650Jean de Montereul[12]
16521660Antoine de Bordeaux, seigneur de Neufville[12]
16611662Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades[12]
16621665François de Comminges[12]
16651668Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Verneuil[12]
16681674Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy[d][12]
16741677Henri de Massue, 1st Marquis de Rouvigny[12]
16771688Paul Barillon[12]
  1. ↑ As French agent.
  2. ↑ As Ambassador Extraordinary.
  3. ↑ Due to the War of the Three Henrys and "the disputed succession after the assassination of King Henry III in 1589 it is difficult to follow exactly the French Resident Amabassadors in England from this date onwards."[7]
  4. ↑ M. Colbert initially served only as a spy, since M. Rouvigny was not trusted by the French court; hence the overlap.

French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801)

Arms of Royal House of Bourbon
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16971701Camille d'Hostun de La Baume, comte later duc de Tallard[13]
17011715Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Croissy et de Torcy (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of France)
17011702Chevalier Jean-Baptiste de Poussin (Acting Attaché)
17021705Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (Chargé d'affaires)
17031710Abbé François Gaultier[14] (Acting Attaché)
17051707Nathaniel, Baron Hooke (Military Attaché: Brigadier-General, French Army)
17081710Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé (Chargé d'affaires)
17101710Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (Franco-Italian Acting Attaché)
17111711Chevalier Nicolas Mesnager (Acting Attaché)
17121712Louis d'Aumont, 3rd Duke of Aumont (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17121713Nicolas du Blé, marquis of Clermont and d'Huxelles (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17131713Nicolas Mesnager, later comte de Saint-Jean (Acting Attaché)
17131716Charles-François d'Iberville, marquis de La Bonde
17161718Abbé Guillaume Dubois (later Cardinal)
17161722Philippe Néricault Destouches, later comte de Langeron (Acting Attaché)
17181718Yves d'Alègre, marquis de Tourzel
17181720Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire
17221724Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon
17241727François-Marie, comte later duc de Broglie
17271731Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie
17311731Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon
17311732Abbé Jacques Deschamps (alias Morel Deschamps, Acting Attaché)
17331735Philippe de Montboissier de Beaufort, marquis de Canillac
17351736Bishop Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17371739Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis, vicomte de Lomagne later duc de Mirepoix
17401740Chevalier Étienne de Silhouette (Acting Attaché)
17411742Gabriel-Jacques de Salignac, vicomte de Saint-Julien later marquis de Fénelon (Ambassador Extraordinary)
War of Austrian Succession (1741–1748)
17461747Jerónimo, duc de Grimaldi
17471747General Ricardo Wall y Devereux (Military Attaché (Borbón-Condé))[a]
17471748Bishop Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal (Acting Attaché)
17481749Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt[16] (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17491754Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis, duc de Mirepoix (Ambassador Extraordinary)
17511752Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye (Chargé d'affaires)
17521753Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17541754François Beauharnais de Beaumont, marquis de La Ferté (Military Attaché)
17541755Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec (Ambassador Extraordinary)
17561757Chevalier Charles d'Éon (Acting Attaché)
17581761Chevalier Jacques-Abraham Durand d'Aubigny (Minister Plenipotentiary)
Seven Years' War (1756–1752)
17621763Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazzarini, duc de Nevers
17631767Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de Guerchy later marquis de Blosset
17681770Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, duc du Châtelet
17701776Jean-Étienne Say (Acting Attaché)
17701776Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes
17761778Emmanuel-Marie-Louis, marquis de Noailles
American War of Independence (1778–1782)
17831783Elénor-François-Elie, marquis de Moustier (Chargé d'affaires)
17841787Jean-Balthazar, comte d'Adhémar (Minister Plenipotentiary)
17881791Anne-César, chevalier later marquis de La Luzerne
French Revolution (1792–1801)
17911792Jean-Marie de Bancalis de Maurel, marquis d'Aragon
17921793François-Bernard de Chauvelin, marquis de Grosbois
17921793Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop emeritus later Prince de Talleyrand (Envoy Extraordinary)
17931793Citizen Hugues Maret later duc de Bassano (Envoy Extraordinary)
17931794Citizen François later marquis de Barthélemy (Envoy Extraordinary)
17941794Citizen Claude Monneron (Envoy Extraordinary)
  1. ↑ General Ricardo Wall y Devereux's diplomatic mission to London was for negotiating peace between the Bourbons and Great Britain but ran into difficulties partly because of reservations in British ministerial quarters about his Irish and Jacobite roots. He later served as Prime Minister of Spain.[15]

French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)

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Heraldic emblem of the French Republic
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18011802Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (Chargé d'affaires)
18031804General Antoine Andréossy later comte de l'Empire
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1814)
18141815Louis, duc de La Chastre
18151819René-Eustache, marquis d'Osmond
18191819Victor de Faÿ, marquis de La Tour-Maubourg
18201821Élie, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg
18211821Antoine, duc de Gramont
18221823François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
18231828Jules, prince de Polignac
18281830Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency, duc de Laval
18301834Charles, prince de Talleyrand
18301832Charles-Joseph Bresson, chevalier later comte de l'Empire
(First Secretary, on behalf of Talleyrand)
18351840Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte de La Porta
18401840Ministre François Guizot
18411847Louis de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
18471848Victor, duc de Broglie
18481848Gustave-Auguste Bonnin de La Bonninière, comte de Beaumont
18481851Ministre Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
18511855Alexandre-Florian-Joseph Colonna, comte Walewski
18551858Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
18581859Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, duc de Malakoff
18591860Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
18601862Charles-Joseph, comte de Flahaut
18621863Jean-Baptiste-Louis, baron Gros[17]
18631869Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne[18]
18691870Charles, marquis de La Valette[19]
18711872Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, comte de Jarnac
18721873Albert, duc de Broglie
18731873Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanieu, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg
18731874Sosthène, vicomte de La Rochefoucauld later duc de Doudeauville
18751879Georges, marquis d'Harcourt[20]
18791880Amiral Louis-Pierre-Alexis de Pothuau[21]
18801880Ministre Léon Say
18801882Sénateur Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
18831893Dr. William Henry Waddington (Prime Minister of France, 1879)
18941898Alphonse Chodron, baron de Courcel[22]
18981920Paul Cambon[23]
19201924Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
19241933Aimé-Benjamin de Fleuriau, comte de Bellevue
19331940Charles Corbin
World War II (1940–1944)
19441955René Massigli[24]
19551962Chevalier Jean Chauvel
19621972Geoffroy Chodron, baron de Courcel
19721977Jacques Delarüe-Caron de Beaumarchais
19771981Jean Sauvagnargues
19811984Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie
19841986Jacques Viot[25]
19861990Luc, vicomte de La Barre de Nanteuil[26]
19901993Bernard Dorin
19931998Jean Guéguinou
19982002Daniel Bernard
20022007Gérard Errera
20072011Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
20112014Bernard Émié[27]
20142017Sylvie Bermann
20172019Jean-Pierre Jouyet
20192022Catherine Colonna
2022PresentHélène Tréheux-Duchêne

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  4. ↑ Smith, Frederick E. (2022). Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England: Mobility, Exile, and Counter-reformation, 1530-1580. Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-19-286599-1. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
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