List of French ambassadors to the United States
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The French ambassador to the United States is the diplomatic representation of the French Republic
to the United States
. They reside in Washington, D.C.
, the capital of the country, and the ambassador since 2011 is Francois Delattre
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. They reside in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, the capital of the country, and the ambassador since 2011 is Francois Delattre
François Delattre
François Delattre is the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the United States. He was appointed Ambassador in February 2011.-Career:He graduated from Sciences Po and ENA with a degree in international law....
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List of Ambassadors
| from | to | Ambassadors |
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| 1778 | 1779 | Conrad-Alexandre Gérard Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval , also known as Conrad Alexandre Gérard, was a French diplomat, born at Masevaux in upper Alsace . He is best known as the first French diplomatic representative to the United States... |
| 1779 | 1784 | Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne was a French soldier and diplomat. He served as the second French minister to the United States, from 1779 to 1784, succeeding Conrad Alexandre Gérard.... |
| 1784 | 1785 | François Barbé-Marbois François Barbé-Marbois François Barbé-Marbois, marquis de Barbé-Marbois was a French politician.-Early career:Born in Metz, where his father was director of the local mint, Barbé-Marbois tutored the children of the Marquis de Castries. In 1779 he was made secretary of the French legation to the United States... chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1785 | 1787 | Louis-Guillaume Otto Louis-Guillaume Otto Louis-Guillaume Otto was a French diplomat.-Life:... chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1787 | 1789 | Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier was a French soldier, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1787 to 1789... |
| 1791 | 1793 | Chevalier Jean-Baptiste Ternant Jean-Baptiste Ternant Jean Baptiste Ternant was a French soldier, diplomat, and was French ambassador to the United States from 1791 to 1793.He was a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers.... |
| 1793 | 1794 | Edmond-Charles Genêt Edmond-Charles Genêt Edmond-Charles Genêt , also known as Citizen Genêt, was a French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.-Early life:Genêt was born in Versailles in 1763... |
| 1794 | 1795 | Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.He studied law. When the French Revolution broke out, he published pamphlets in praise of the event... |
| 1795 | 1796 | Pierre Auguste Adet Pierre Adet Pierre-Auguste Adet was a French scientist, politician, and diplomat.He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the scientific periodical Annales de chimie, founded in 1789... |
| 1796 | 1800 | Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1796 to 1800.-Life:He was the son of Bernard de Mangourit and Marguerite-Angélique Cairgnon de La Touche.... |
| 1800 | 1800 | Joseph Bonaparte Joseph Bonaparte Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain... Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine |
| Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu was a French explorer, hydrographer and politician. He was Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, and a member of the Institut de France, as well as the brother of the botanist Marc Antoine Louis Claret de la Tourette.-Ancien Regime:Fleurieu was born in Lyon... Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine |
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| Pierre Louis Roederer Pierre Louis Roederer Comte Pierre Louis Roederer was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic... Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine |
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| 1801 | 1804 | Louis Andre Pichon Louis Andre Pichon Louis-André Pichon was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, particularly during the Louisiana Purchase.Louis-Andre Pichon was the son of Simeon Pichon, shoemaker, and Jeanne Fortier.... chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1804 | 1804 | Felix Beaujour Felix Beaujour Louis Felix-Auguste-Beaujour, was a French diplomat, politician, historian, and French ambassador to the United States.- Biography :... |
| 1804 | 1811 | General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville Louis Marie Turreau Louis Marie Turreau , also known as Turreau de Garambouville or Turreau de Linières, was a French general officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He was most notable as the organisor of the colonnes infernales during the war in the Vendée, which massacred tens of thousands of Vendéens and ravaged... |
| 1811 | 1815 | Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier Louis Charles Barbe Serurier was a French diplomat, and French Consul General from 1811 to 1815, and envoy from 1831 to 1835, to the United States.- Life :He was a cousin of Jean Sérurier.... |
| 1815 | 1821 | Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville |
| 1821 | 1824 | Jacques de Menou chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1824 | 1830 | Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1824 to 1830.- Biography :He was secretary of the legation of France in Stuttgart.... |
| 1830 | 1831 | Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux Rochelle |
| 1831 | 1835 | Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier Louis Charles Barbe Serurier was a French diplomat, and French Consul General from 1811 to 1815, and envoy from 1831 to 1835, to the United States.- Life :He was a cousin of Jean Sérurier.... |
| 1835 | 1837 | Alphonse Pageot chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1837 | 1838 | Charles Edward Pontois |
| 1838 | 1841 | Alphonse Pageot chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1841 | 1846 | Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier Bacourt |
| 1843 | 1849 | Alphonse Pageot |
| 1849 | 1850 | Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte |
| 1850 | 1851 | Lavallée Poussin |
| 1851 | 1860 | Count Eugene de Sartiges |
| 1860 | 1864 | Henri Mercier |
| 1864 | 1866 | Charles Frederic Francois, Marquis de Montholon Charles Frederic Francois, Marquis de Montholon Charles François Frédéric de Montholon-Sémonville was a French senator, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1864 to 1866.-Life:... |
| 1866 | 1870 | Jules Berthemy |
| 1870 | 1870 | Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol was a French journalist and essayist.Prevost-Paradol was born in Paris, France, the son of an irregular liaison between the opera singer Lucinde Paradol and the writer Léon Halévy... |
| 1870 | 1870 | Jules Berthemy |
| 1870 | 1870 | Jules Treillard |
| 1871 | 1871 | Henry de Bellonnet chargé d'affaires ad interim |
| 1872 | 1873 | Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles |
| 1873 | 1877 | Amedee Bartholdi |
| 1877 | 1882 | Georges Maxime Outrey |
| 1882 | 1891 | Theodore Roustan |
| 1891 | 1897 | Jules Patenotre des Noyers Jules Patenotre des Noyers Jules Patenôtre des Noyers , French diplomat, was born at Baye .Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, he taught for some years in the Algiers lycée before he joined the diplomatic service in 1871. He took service from 1873 to 1876 in the North of Persia... |
| 1897 | 1902 | Jules Cambon Jules Cambon Jules-Martin Cambon was a French diplomat.He began his career as a lawyer , served in the Franco-Prussian War and entered the civil service in 1871... |
| 1902 | 1924 | Jean Jules Jusserand Jean Jules Jusserand Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand was a French author and diplomat. He was the French ambassador to the United States during World War I.-Career:... |
| 1924 | 1925 | Emile Daeschner |
| 1925 | 1926 | Victor Henri Bérenger Victor Henri Bérenger Victor Henri Bérenger was France's ambassador to the United States from 1926 to 1927.-References:... (1867-1952) |
| 1926 | 1933 | Paul Claudel Paul Claudel Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:... |
| 1933 | 1937 | André Lefebvre de La Boulaye |
| 1937 | 1938 | Georges Bonnet Georges Bonnet Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party.- Early career :... |
| 1938 | 1940 | René Doynel de Saint-Quentin René Doynel de Saint-Quentin René Doynel de Saint-Quentin was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1938 to 1940.- Life :... |
| 1940 | 1942 | Gaston Henry-Haye Gaston Henry-Haye Gaston Henry-Haye was a merchant, French politician and diplomat. He served in the French Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1935, and in the French Senate from 1935-1944. He was also Mayor of Versailles from 1935-1944... |
| 1941 | 1942 | Adrien Tixier Adrien Tixier Adrien Tixier was a French politician, diplomat, and Free French ambassador to the United States.-Career:He was the son of Pierre-Edouard Tixier, a blacksmith, and Marie-Françoise Derosier... Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation |
| 1943 | 1943 | Henri Hoppenot Henri Hoppenot Henri Hoppenot was a French diplomat, was commissioner-general in Indochina between 1955 and 1956, and was the last person to hold this post. He also served as the French president of the United Nations Security Council between 1952 and 1955.In August 1914, he started in the Press Office of the... Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation |
| 1944 | 1954 | Henri Bonnet Henri Bonnet Henri Bonnet was a French politician, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954.He was a member of the secretariat of the League of Nations from 1921 to 1931.... |
| 1954 | 1956 | Maurice Couve de Murville Maurice Couve de Murville Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle.... |
| 1956 | 1965 | Hervé Alphand Hervé Alphand Hervé Alphand was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States, from 1956 to 1965. -Life:... |
| 1965 | 1972 | Charles Lucet Charles Lucet Ernest Charles Lucet was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.-Life :His father was a doctor... |
| 1972 | 1977 | Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet was a noted French university professor and diplomat.-Biography:... (1913-1994) |
| 1977 | 1981 | Francois Lefebvre de Laboulaye Stanislas Lefebvre de Laboulaye Stanislas François Jean Lefebvre de Laboulaye is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France to the Holy See, and a former Ambassador of France to Russia, and former French ambassador to the United States.... |
| 1981 | 1984 | Bernard Vernier-Palliez Bernard Vernier-Palliez Bernard Vernier-Palliez was a French businessman, diplomat, and French Ambassador to the United States, from 1982 to 1984.He was chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Renault Automobiles, from 1975 to 1981.... |
| 1984 | 1989 | Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie was the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the United States.-Career:He studied at the Aurora University and the Sorbonne.He graduated from the Sciences Po, and ENA.... |
| 1989 | 1995 | Jacques Andreani Jacques Andreani Jaçques Andreani was the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the United States.-Career:He graduated from the Sciences Po, ENA.He taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand from 1996 to 1997, at The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center from 1997 to 1998, and at LUISS, from 2000 to... |
| 1995 | 2002 | François Bujon de l'Estang François Bujon de l'Estang François Bujon de l'Estang was the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the United States.-Career:He graduated from the Sciences Po, ENA, and the Harvard School of Business Administration.... |
| 2002 | 2007 | Jean-David Levitte Jean-David Levitte Jean-David Levitte is a French diplomat, formerly the French ambassador to the United States, and currently diplomatic advisor and sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy. He has also been named head of the future National Security Council.... |
| 2007 | 2010 | Pierre Vimont Pierre Vimont Pierre Vimont is the Secretary-General of the European External Action Service .-Biography:Vimont holds a licence in law. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École nationale d'administration... |
| 2011 | - | Francois Delattre François Delattre François Delattre is the Ambassador of the Republic of France to the United States. He was appointed Ambassador in February 2011.-Career:He graduated from Sciences Po and ENA with a degree in international law.... |