List of ambassadors of France to the United States explained

Post:
France's Ambassador
to the United States of America
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Department:Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
French Embassy, Washington D.C.
Incumbent:Laurent Bili
Incumbentsince:14 February 2023
Style:His Excellency
Residence:French Ambassador's Residence, Washington, D.C.
Inaugural:Conrad-Alexandre Gérard
Formation:1778
Website:French 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)

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1778 1779 Conrad-Alexandre Gérard
1779 1784 Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne
1784 1785 François Barbé-Marbois
1785 1787 Louis-Guillaume Otto
1787 1789 Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier[4]
1791 1793 Chevalier Jean Baptiste Ternant[5]

First French Republic

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1793 1794 Edmond-Charles Genêt
1794 1795 Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet[7] [8]
1795 1796 Pierre Auguste Adet
1796 1800 Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit[9]
1800 1800 Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
Pierre Louis Roederer
1801 1804 Louis-André Pichon[10]

First French Empire (180415)

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1804 1804
1804 1811 General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville
1811 1815 Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier

Kingdom of France (181548)

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1815 1821 Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville
1821 1824 Jacques de Menou
1824 1830 Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil
1830 1831 Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux Rochelle
1831 1835
1835 1837 Alphonse Pageot
1837 1838 Charles Edward Pontois[13]
1838 1841 Alphonse Pageot
1841 1846
1843 1849 Alphonse Pageot

Second French Republic (184852)

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1848 1849 Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin
1849 1850 Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte
1851 1860 Count Eugène de Sartiges[15]

Second French Empire (185270)

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1851 1860 Count Eugène de Sartiges[17]
1860 1864 Henri Mercier[18]
1864 1866
1866 1870 Jules Berthemy
1870 1870 Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1870 1870 Jules Berthemy

Third French Republic (18701940)

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1870 1870 Jules Treillard
1871 1871 Henry de Bellonnet
1872 1873 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
1873 1877 Amédée Bartholdi[20]
1877 1882 Georges Maxime Outrey[21]
1882 1891 Théodore Roustan[22] [23]
1891 1897 Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
1897 1902 Jules Cambon
1902 1924 Jean Jules Jusserand
1924 1925 Emile Daeschner[24]
1925 1926 Henry Bérenger[25]
1926 1933 Paul Claudel
1933 1937 André Lefebvre de La Boulaye
1937 1938 Georges Bonnet
1938 1940 René Doynel de Saint-Quentin
1940 1942 Gaston Henry-Haye
1941 1942 Adrien Tixier
1943 1943 Henri Hoppenot
1944 1954 Henri Bonnet

Fourth French Republic (194658)

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1944 1954 Henri Bonnet
1954 1956 Maurice Couve de Murville
1956 1965 Hervé Alphand

Fifth French Republic (1958present)

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1956 1965 Charles de Gaulle
1965 1972 Charles de Gaulle]
Georges Pompidou
1972 1977 Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet[28] Georges Pompidou
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1977 1981 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1981 1984 François Mitterrand
1984 1989 François Mitterrand
1989 1995 Jacques Chirac
1995 2002 Jacques Chirac
2002 2007 Jacques Chirac
2007 2010 Nicolas Sarkozy
2011 2014 François Delattre[29] Nicolas Sarkozy
François Hollande
2014 2019 Gérard Araud[30] François Hollande
Emmanuel Macron
2019 2023 Philippe Étienne[31] Emmanuel Macron
2023 - Laurent Bili[32] Emmanuel Macron

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: The World almanac & book of facts . Newspaper Enterprise Association. 1906.
  2. https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/cpr/95681.htm United States Department of State
  3. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  4. Web site: Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS. Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS.
  5. 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. 27567907. Adams. Douglas N.. 1985.
  6. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  7. Web site: Papers of the War Department . 2011-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110901232117/http://wardepartmentpapers.org/searchresults.php?searchClass=fulltextSearch&fulltextQuery=Jean+Antoine+Joseph+Fauchet . 2011-09-01 . dead .
  8. Web site: OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service. classify.oclc.org.
  9. 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.). William. Stinchcombe. 1 September 2009. Journal of American History. 96. 2. 528–529. academic.oup.com. 10.1093/jahist/96.2.528-a.
  10. Web site: Why We Are Partly Responsible for the Mess that is Haiti - History News Network. www.hnn.us.
  11. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  12. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  13. Web site: Galerie Jean-François HEIM Paris - Portrait of Amélie-Justine and Charles-Édouard Pontois. www.galerieheim.ch.
  14. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  15. News: Obituary . The New York Times . 6 October 1892.
  16. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  17. News: Obituary . The New York Times . 6 October 1892.
  18. Web site: Picture History : Henri Mercier, French Minister to the U.S. . 2011-06-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320052152/http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19938 . 2012-03-20 .
  19. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  20. https://archive.org/details/enlighteningworl00khan/page/123 Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty
  21. Web site: The Final Report of the Agent and Counsel of the United States: With Treaties and Schedule of Claims. French and American Claims. Commission. 13 May 1884. Gibson Brothers, printers. Google Books.
  22. News: Theodore Roustan . The New York Times . 9 August 1906.
  23. Web site: Théodore ROUSTAN . 2011-06-14 . 2011-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722062528/http://www.museeciotaden.org/Pages%20C%E9l%E8brit%E9s/roustanth%E9o.htm . dead .
  24. News: Exits and Entrances . https://web.archive.org/web/20101121072441/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719333,00.html . dead . November 21, 2010 . Time . 27 October 1924.
  25. News: Died . https://web.archive.org/web/20101122123230/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847312,00.html . dead . November 22, 2010 . . April 17, 1933 . 2009-08-18 .
  26. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  27. Web site: French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 . 2023-04-24 . France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. . en.
  28. News: Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet . . 28 May 1994 . 2009-08-18 . London.
  29. Web site: Ambassador of France to the U.S.. France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C..
  30. Web site: The Ambassador. France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C..
  31. Web site: Philippe Etienne Confirmed as the New French Ambassador in Washington. 6 May 2019.
  32. Web site: Mr. Laurent Bili is the new Ambassador of France to the United States . 2023-04-24 . Consulat Général de France à San Francisco . en.

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