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List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

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Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom
Ambassadeur de France au Royaume-Uni
since 2022
StyleAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Residence11 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

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Main article: Embassy of France, London
The 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

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French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688)

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Further information: List of ambassadors of France to England

French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801)

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Further information: List of ambassadors of France to the Kingdom of Great Britain

French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)

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Imperial French Arms
Heraldic emblem of the French Republic
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
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 Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
1858 1859 Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, duc de Malakoff
1859 1860 Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
1860 1862 Charles-Joseph, comte de Flahaut
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 Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanieu, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg
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 Ministre Léon Say
1880 1882 Sénateur Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
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 Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
1924 1933 Aimé-Benjamin de Fleuriau, comte de Bellevue
1933 1940 Charles, baron Corbin
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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Who is Camilla? The 'other woman' who's now Queen Consort". SBS News. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Knightsbridge North Side: Parkside to Albert Gate Court". 30 November 2013.
  3. ^ "The London Diplomatic List" (PDF). 14 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013.
  4. ^ "The London Diplomatic List" (PDF). 14 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013.
  5. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1992). The London Encyclopaedia (reprint ed.). Macmillan. p. 439.
  6. ^ GROS, Jean-Baptiste Louis, baron (1793–1870), ambassadeur. Extract from the Dictionnaire du Second Empire (1995)
  7. ^ 644 AP • Fonds La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauragais, Archives de France.
  8. ^ "Charles, Jean, Marie, Félix de La Valette – Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 – Assemblée nationale". www2.assemblee-nationale.fr.
  9. ^ Gilles Le Béguec, Les entourages des chefs de l’Etat sous les IIIe et IVe Républiques.
  10. ^ Amiral Pothuau in Le Mémorial diplomatique
  11. ^ COURCEL, Alphonse CHODRON de Extract from the Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français, Jean Jolly
  12. ^ "Foreign News: Cambon Dead". 9 June 1924 – via content.time.com.
  13. ^ "Timeline of Ambassadors since 1941". France in the United Kingdom – La France au Royaume-Uni.
  14. ^ "Biographie Jacques Viot Ambassadeur de France". www.whoswho.fr.
  15. ^ "The French Mission – France ONU". onu.delegfrance.org.
  16. ^ "Debrett's People of Today: Bernard Emié".
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