List of Ambassadors from France to the United Kingdom
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This is an incomplete list of ambassador
s from France
to the United Kingdom
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Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
s from France
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 Kingdom
United Kingdom
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- 1701-1712: War of the Spanish SuccessionWar of the Spanish SuccessionThe War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. As France and Spain were among the most powerful states of Europe, such a unification would have...
- 1712: Louis d'Aumont de Rochebaron, duc d'Aumont
- 1713: Nicolas du Blé, marquis d'Huxelles and Nicolas Ménager
- 1724: Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de RuffecCharles-François de Broglie, marquis de RuffecCharles François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec , second son of François-Marie de Broglie, 1st duc de Broglie, was a French soldier and diplomat from a distinguished French military family....
- 1749: Gaston Pierre de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix
- 1754-1762: Seven Years' WarSeven Years' WarThe Seven Years' War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines...
- 1763 – 1767: Claude Louis François Régnier, comte de Guerchy
- 1768 – 1770: Louis Marie Florent, duc du Châtelet
- 1770 – 1776: Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de GuînesAdrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de GuînesAdrien-Louis de Bonnières, comte then duc de Guînes was a French nobleman at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, whose favourite he was...
- 1776 – 1778: Emmanuel Marie Louis, marquis de Noailles
- 1778-1782: American Revolutionary WarAmerican Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
- 1783-1787: Jean Balthazar, comte d'Adhémar
- 1788-1791: Anne-César, Chevalier de la LuzerneAnne-César, Chevalier de la LuzerneAnne-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....
- 1792-1801: French Revolutionary WarsFrench Revolutionary WarsThe French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states...
- 29 May 1803 – 21 August 1803: Antoine-François AndréossyAntoine-François AndréossyAntoine-François, comte Andréossy was a French general and diplomat of noble origin and Italian descent.-Biography:...
- 1803-1814: Napoleonic WarsNapoleonic WarsThe Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
- 1820s: Élie, duc DecazesÉlie, duc DecazesÉlie Decazes, 1st duc Decazes and 1st Duke of Glücksbierg , was a French statesman, known from 1815 to 1820 as 1st comte Decazes in France, 1st Duke of Glücksbierg in Denmark in 1818, and 1st duc Decazes in France in 1820 .-Early life:Élie Decazes was born at Saint-Martin-de-Laye, Gironde, son of...
- 1828-1830: Anne Adrien Pierre de Montmorency-Laval
- 1830-1834: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- 1852-1855: Jean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá , Athens and Ambassador to London - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among...
- 1855-1858: Victor de Persigny
- 1858-1859: Aimable Pélissier
- 1859-1860: Victor de Persigny
- 1860-1863: Jean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis GrosJean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá , Athens and Ambassador to London - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among...
- November 1860 – 27 January 1864: Charles Joseph, comte de FlahautCharles Joseph, comte de FlahautAuguste Charles Joseph de Flahaut de La Billarderie, Comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie was a French general and statesman...
- 1873-1874: Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld
- 1940-1944: Second World War
- 1962-1972: Geoffroy Chodron de CourcelGeoffroy Chodron de CourcelGeoffroy Chodron de Courcel , was a French diplomat. He was Aide-de-camp to General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 and escaped to Britain with the General on 17 June 1940 with the help of General Louis Spears. When de Gaulle established the Free French Forces in London, de Courcel was the first...
- 1972-1977: Jacques Delarue Caron de Beaumarchais
- 2007-2011: Maurice Gourdault-MontagneMaurice Gourdault-MontagneMaurice Gourdault-Montagne is a career diplomat and the current French Ambassador to Germany.-Career:Mr Gourdault-Montagne joined the French Foreign Ministry in 1978...
- 2 April 2011: Bernard ÉmiéBernard ÉmiéBernard Emié is a career diplomat. Following his nomination as the next French Ambassador to the United Kingdom on 19 January, he took up this post on 2 April 2011.- Biography :...