List of ambassadors of France to the United States

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France's Ambassador
to the United States of America
File:Arms of the French Republic.svg
Coat of Arms of French Republic
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
French Embassy, Washington D.C.
StyleHis Excellency
ResidenceFrench Ambassador's Residence, Washington, D.C.
Inaugural holderConrad-Alexandre Gérard
Formation1778
WebsiteFrench Embassy – Washington

The French ambassador to the United States is the diplomatic representation of the French Republic to the United States.[1][2] They reside in Washington, D.C. The current ambassador is Laurent Bili.

Heads of mission

Ancien Regime (before 1792)

Image From Until Ambassadors[3]
File:Conrad Alexandre Gérard portrait.jpg 1778 1779 Conrad-Alexandre Gérard
File:Anne César de la Luzerne.jpg 1779 1784 Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne
File:Barbe de Marbois.jpg 1784 1785 François Barbé-Marbois[lower-alpha 1]
File:Le comte Otto de Mosloy et le comte Pelet.jpg 1785 1787 Louis-Guillaume Otto[lower-alpha 2]
1787 1789 Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier[4]
File:Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 1781.jpg 1791 1793 Chevalier Jean Baptiste Ternant[5]

First French Republic

Image From Until Ambassadors[6]
File:Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834).jpg 1793 1794 Edmond-Charles Genêt
1794 1795 Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet[7][8]
File:Pierre Auguste Adet.jpg 1795 1796 Pierre Auguste Adet
File:Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit.png 1796 1800 Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit[9][10]
File:Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg 1800 1800 Joseph Bonaparte[lower-alpha 3]
File:Presumed portrait of Charles-Pierre Claret - Versailles.png Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu[lower-alpha 4]
File:Pierre-Louis Roederer.jpg Pierre Louis Roederer[lower-alpha 5]
1801 1804 Louis-André Pichon[lower-alpha 6][11]

First French Empire (1804–15)

Image From Until Ambassadors[12]
1804 1804 Felix Beaujour
File:Louis Marie Turreau (détail).jpg 1804 1811 General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville
1811 1815 Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier

Kingdom of France (1815–48)

Image From Until Ambassadors[13]
File:Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville.jpg 1815 1821 Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville
File:Jacques Menou 1750 1810.jpg 1821 1824 Jacques de Menou[citation needed][lower-alpha 7]
File:Joseph, Alexandre, Jacques Durant Comte de Mareuil.jpg 1824 1830 Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil
1830 1831 Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux Rochelle
1831 1835 Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier
1835 1837 Alphonse Pageot[lower-alpha 8]
1837 1838 Charles Edward Pontois[14]
1838 1841 Alphonse Pageot[lower-alpha 9]
File:Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt (1801-1865).jpg 1841 1846 Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt [fr]
1843 1849 Alphonse Pageot[lower-alpha 10]

Second French Republic (1848–52)

Image From Until Ambassadors[16]
1848 1849 Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin[lower-alpha 11]
1849 1850 Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte
1851 1860 Count Eugène de Sartiges[17]

Second French Empire (1852–70)

Image From Until Ambassadors[18]
1851 1860 Count Eugène de Sartiges[19]
1860 1864 Henri Mercier[20]
File:Marquis de Montholon - crop.JPG 1864 1866 Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville
1866 1870 Jules Berthemy
File:Paradol Prevost, French Minister - NARA - 526814 (cropped).jpg 1870 1870 Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1870 1870 Jules Berthemy

Third French Republic (1870–1940)

Image From Until Ambassadors[21]
1870 1870 Jules Treillard
1871 1871 Henry de Bellonnet[lower-alpha 12]
File:Emmanuel-Henri-Victurnien-Marquis de noailles-crop.jpg 1872 1873 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
1873 1877 Amédée Bartholdi[22]
1877 1882 Georges Maxime Outrey[23]
File:Théodore Roustan en 1881.jpg 1882 1891 Théodore Roustan[24][25]
File:Jules Patenôtre des Noyers.jpg 1891 1897 Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
File:Jules Cambon 1932b.jpg 1897 1902 Jules Cambon
File:Jean Jules Jusserand cph.3b15757.jpg 1902 1924 Jean Jules Jusserand
File:Émile Daeschner.jpg 1924 1925 Emile Daeschner[26]
File:Henry Bérenger-1925.jpg 1925 1926 Henry Bérenger[27]
File:Paul Claudel cph.3b31258.jpg 1926 1933 Paul Claudel
File:André Lefebvre de Laboulaye.jpg 1933 1937 André Lefebvre de La Boulaye
File:Georges Bonnet 1937.jpg 1937 1938 Georges Bonnet
File:French Ambassador sees President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 29. Count de Saint-Quentin, French Ambassador, leaving the White House today after an especially requested conference with LCCN2016877698.jpg 1938 1940 René Doynel de Saint-Quentin
File:Gaston Henry-Haye 1932.jpg 1940 1942 Gaston Henry-Haye
File:Lot 11611-2 (25233865406).jpg 1941 1942 Adrien Tixier[lower-alpha 13]
1943 1943 Henri Hoppenot[lower-alpha 14]
File:Ondertekening van het Handvest der Verenigde Volkeren Henri Bonnet, Bestanddeelnr 900-9056 (cropped).jpg 1944 1954 Henri Bonnet

Fourth French Republic (1946–58)

Image From Until Ambassadors[28]
File:Ondertekening van het Handvest der Verenigde Volkeren Henri Bonnet, Bestanddeelnr 900-9056 (cropped).jpg 1944 1954 Henri Bonnet
File:Opening NATO conferentie Couve de Murville en Luns, Bestanddeelnr 916-4274 (cropped).jpg 1954 1956 Maurice Couve de Murville
1956 1965 Hervé Alphand

Fifth French Republic (1958–present)

Image From Until Ambassadors[29] President of France
1956 1965 Hervé Alphand Charles de Gaulle
File:Pertini Lucet 1972 cropped.png 1965 1972 Charles Lucet Charles de Gaulle]
Georges Pompidou
1972 1977 Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet[30] Georges Pompidou
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1977 1981 François Lefebvre de Laboulaye Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1981 1984 Bernard Vernier-Palliez François Mitterrand
File:Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie and Ronald Reagan.jpg 1984 1989 Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie François Mitterrand
1989 1995 Jacques Andreani Jacques Chirac
File:Bujon.jpg 1995 2002 François Bujon de l'Estang Jacques Chirac
File:Jean-David Levitte.jpg 2002 2007 Jean-David Levitte Jacques Chirac
File:Pierre Vimont.jpg 2007 2010 Pierre Vimont Nicolas Sarkozy
File:François DELATTRE .jpg 2011 2014 François Delattre[31] Nicolas Sarkozy
François Hollande
File:Gérard Araud 2011 (cropped).jpg 2014 2019 Gérard Araud[32] François Hollande
Emmanuel Macron
File:Philippe Étienne 2020 (cropped).jpg 2019 2023 Philippe Étienne[33] Emmanuel Macron
File:French Ambassador to the United States Laurent Bili (cropped).jpg 2023 - Laurent Bili[34] Emmanuel Macron

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  2. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  3. ↑ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  4. ↑ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  5. ↑ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  6. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  7. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  8. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  9. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  10. ↑ On behalf of the July Monarchy)[15]
  11. ↑ On behalf of the French Second Republic.
  12. ↑ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  13. ↑ Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation.
  14. ↑ Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation.

References

  1. ↑ The World almanac & book of facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association. 1906.
  2. ↑ United States Department of State
  3. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  4. ↑ "Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS". Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS.
  5. ↑ Adams, Douglas N. (1985). "Jean Baptiste Ternant, Inspector General and Advisor to the Commanding Generals of the Southern Forces 1778-1782". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 86 (3): 221–240. JSTOR 27567907.
  6. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  7. ↑ "Papers of the War Department". Archived from the original on 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  8. ↑ "OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service". classify.oclc.org.
  9. ↑ Stinchcombe, William (1 September 2009). "This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792–1794. By Robert J. Alderson Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 273 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0.)". Journal of American History. 96 (2): 528–529. doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.528-a – via academic.oup.com.
  10. ↑ This bright era of happy revolutions at Google Books
  11. ↑ "Why We Are Partly Responsible for the Mess that is Haiti - History News Network". www.hnn.us.
  12. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  13. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  14. ↑ "Galerie Jean-François HEIM Paris - Portrait of Amélie-Justine and Charles-Édouard Pontois". www.galerieheim.ch.
  15. ↑ Annual report of the American Historical Association, Volume 2, p. 198, at Google Books
  16. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  17. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 October 1892.
  18. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  19. ↑ "Obituary" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 October 1892.
  20. ↑ "Picture History : Henri Mercier, French Minister to the U.S." Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  21. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  22. ↑ Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty, Yasmin Sabina Khan
  23. ↑ Commission, French and American Claims (13 May 1884). "The Final Report of the Agent and Counsel of the United States: With Treaties and Schedule of Claims". Gibson Brothers, printers – via Google Books.
  24. ↑ "Theodore Roustan". The New York Times. 9 August 1906.
  25. ↑ "Théodore ROUSTAN". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  26. ↑ "Exits and Entrances". Time. 27 October 1924. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010.
  27. ↑ "Died". Time magazine. April 17, 1933. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  28. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  29. ↑ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  30. ↑ "Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet". The Independent. London. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  31. ↑ "Ambassador of France to the U.S." France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
  32. ↑ "The Ambassador". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
  33. ↑ "Philippe Etienne Confirmed as the New French Ambassador in Washington". 6 May 2019.
  34. ↑ "Mr. Laurent Bili is the new Ambassador of France to the United States". Consulat Général de France à San Francisco. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
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