List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom explained
| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | France to the United Kingdom |
| Native Name: | Ambassadeur de France au Royaume-Uni |
| Insignia: | Arms of the French Republic.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Incumbent: | Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne |
| Incumbentsince: | 2022 |
| Style: | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
| Residence: | 11 Kensington Palace Gardens |
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, operating from the Embassy of France, London:
Embassy of France, London
See main article: Embassy of France, London. The embassy of France in London is located just off Knightsbridge at Albert Gate, one of the entrances to Hyde Park, directly opposite the Embassy of Kuwait. The building was designed by the British architect Thomas Cubitt.[1] At the time of its construction in the 1840s, it was among the tallest structures in the Knightsbridge area.[2]
France also owns various premises along the Cromwell Road, South Kensington which house its Consular, Cultural, Science & Technology and Visa sections.[3] It also has a Trade mission at 28-29 Haymarket and a Paymaster & Financial Comptroller section at 30 Queen's Gate Terrace, South Kensington,[4] while No. 11 Kensington Palace Gardens has been the French Ambassador's official residence since 1944.[5]
French Ambassadors
French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688)
See also: List of ambassadors of France to England.
French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801)
See also: List of ambassadors of France to the Kingdom of Great Britain.
French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)
| Image | From | Until | Ambassadors |
|---|
| 1801 | 1802 | Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (Chargé d'affaires) |
| 1803 | 1804 | General Antoine Andréossy later comte de l'Empire |
| align=center bgcolor=wheat colspan=4 | Napoleonic Wars (1803–1814) |
| 1814 | 1815 | Louis, duc de La Chastre |
| 1815 | 1819 | René-Eustache, marquis d'Osmond |
| 1819 | 1819 | Victor de Faÿ, marquis de La Tour-Maubourg |
| 1820 | 1821 | Élie, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg |
| 1821 | 1821 | Antoine, duc de Gramont |
| 1822 | 1823 | François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand |
| 1823 | 1828 | Jules, prince de Polignac |
| 1828 | 1830 | Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency, duc de Laval |
| 1830 | 1834 | Charles, prince de Talleyrand |
| 1830 | 1832 | Charles-Joseph Bresson, chevalier later comte de l'Empire
(First Secretary, on behalf of Talleyrand) |
| 1835 | 1840 | Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte de La Porta |
| 1840 | 1840 | Ministre François Guizot |
| 1841 | 1847 | Louis de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire |
| 1847 | 1848 | Victor, duc de Broglie |
| 1848 | 1848 | Gustave-Auguste Bonnin de La Bonninière, comte de Beaumont |
| 1848 | 1851 | Ministre Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys |
| 1851 | 1855 | Alexandre-Florian-Joseph Colonna, comte Walewski |
| 1855 | 1858 | |
| 1858 | 1859 | |
| 1859 | 1860 | |
| 1860 | 1862 | |
| 1862 | 1863 | Jean-Baptiste-Louis, baron Gros[6] |
| 1863 | 1869 | Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne[7] |
| 1869 | 1870 | Charles, marquis de La Valette[8] |
| 1871 | 1872 | Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, comte de Jarnac |
| 1872 | 1873 | Albert, duc de Broglie |
| 1873 | 1873 | |
| 1873 | 1874 | Sosthène, vicomte de La Rochefoucauld later duc de Doudeauville |
| 1875 | 1879 | Georges, marquis d'Harcourt[9] |
| 1879 | 1880 | Amiral Louis-Pierre-Alexis de Pothuau[10] |
| 1880 | 1880 | |
| 1880 | 1882 | |
| 1883 | 1893 | Dr. William Henry Waddington (Prime Minister of France, 1879) |
| 1894 | 1898 | Alphonse Chodron, baron de Courcel[11] |
| 1898 | 1920 | Paul Cambon[12] |
| 1920 | 1924 | |
| 1924 | 1933 | Aimé-Benjamin de Fleuriau, comte de Bellevue |
| 1933 | 1940 | Charles, baron Corbin |
| align=center bgcolor=wheat colspan=4 | World War II (1940–1944) |
| 1944 | 1955 | René Massigli[13] |
| 1955 | 1962 | Chevalier Jean Chauvel |
| 1962 | 1972 | Geoffroy Chodron, baron de Courcel |
| 1972 | 1977 | Jacques Delarüe-Caron de Beaumarchais |
| 1977 | 1981 | Jean Sauvagnargues |
| 1981 | 1984 | Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie |
| 1984 | 1986 | Jacques Viot[14] |
| 1986 | 1990 | Luc, vicomte de La Barre de Nanteuil[15] |
| 1990 | 1993 | Bernard Dorin |
| 1993 | 1998 | Jean Guéguinou |
| 1998 | 2002 | Daniel Bernard |
| 2002 | 2007 | Gérard Errera |
| 2007 | 2011 | Maurice Gourdault-Montagne |
| 2011 | 2014 | Bernard Émié[16] |
| 2014 | 2017 | Sylvie Bermann |
| 2017 | 2019 | Jean-Pierre Jouyet |
| 2019 | 2022 | Catherine Colonna |
| 2022 | Present | Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne |
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See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Who is Camilla? The 'other woman' who's now Queen Consort . 2023-03-04 . SBS News . en.
- News: Knightsbridge North Side: Parkside to Albert Gate Court . 30 November 2013.
- News: The London Diplomatic List . 14 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131211155353/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf . 2013-12-11 .
- News: The London Diplomatic List . 14 December 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131211155353/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf . 2013-12-11 .
- Book: Weinreb, Ben . Hibbert, Christopher . Ben Weinreb. Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia. reprint. 1992. Macmillan. 439.
- http://www.napoleon.org/fr/salle_lecture/biographies/files/477317.asp GROS, Jean-Baptiste Louis, baron (1793–1870), ambassadeur
- http://daf.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/sdx-222-daf-bora-ap/ap/pdf.xsp?id=DAFANCH00AP_644AP&f=d.pdf 644 AP • Fonds La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauragais
- Web site: Charles, Jean, Marie, Félix de La Valette – Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 – Assemblée nationale. www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.
- Gilles Le Béguec, Les entourages des chefs de l’Etat sous les IIIe et IVe Républiques.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyoxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA650 Amiral Pothuau
- http://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/courcel_alphonse_chodron_de1653r3.html COURCEL, Alphonse CHODRON de
- Web site: Foreign News: Cambon Dead. 9 June 1924. content.time.com.
- Web site: Timeline of Ambassadors since 1941. France in the United Kingdom – La France au Royaume-Uni.
- Web site: Biographie Jacques Viot Ambassadeur de France. www.whoswho.fr.
- Web site: The French Mission – France ONU. onu.delegfrance.org.
- Web site: Debrett's People of Today: Bernard Emié.
