List of ambassadors of France to the Ottoman Empire

France had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered to have been the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey.

Ahmed III receiving the embassy of Charles de Ferriol in 1699; painting by Jean-Baptiste van Mour

List of ambassadors

Under the Ancien Régime

Ambassadors of Ancien Régime France. Embassy established in Constantinople.^[1][2]

The first ambassador was preceded by an envoy: Jean Frangipani.

• Jean de la Forét 1535–1538
• Antonio Rincon 1538–1541
• Antoine Escalin des Eymars 1541–1547
• Gabriel de Luetz d'Aramont 1547–1553
• Michel de Codignac 1553–1556
• Jean Cavenac de la Vigne 1556–1566
• Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie 1566–1571
• François de Noailles 1571–1575
• Gilles de Noailles 1575–1579
• Jacques de Germigny 1579–1585
• Jacques Savary de Lancosme 1585–1589
• François Savary de Brèves 1589–1607
• Jean-François de Gontaut-Biron 1607–1611
• Achille de Harlay 1611–1620
• Philippe de Harlay 1620–1631
• Henry de Gournay 1631–1639
• Jean de La Hay 1639–1665
• Denis de La Haye 1665–1670
• Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel 1670–1679
• Gabriel de Guilleragues 1679–1686
• Pierre de Girardin [fr] 1686–1689
• Pierre-Antoine de Castanier [fr]1689–1692
• Charles de Ferriol 1692–1711
• Pierre Puchot 1711–1716
• Jean-Louis d'Usson 1716
• Jean-Baptiste Louis Picon [fr]1724–1728
• Louis Sauveur Villeneuve 1728–1741
• Michel-Ange Castellane1741–1747
• Roland Puchot 1747–1755
• Charles Gravier de Vergennes 1755–1768
• François Emmanuel Guignard 1768–1784
• Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier 1784–1792

French Revolution and First French Empire

Ambassadors under the French Revolution and First French Empire.^[1]

• Charles Louis Huguet 1792–1796 – in name only
• Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1795 -1797)
• Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet 1796–1797
• Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune 1802–1806
• Horace François Sébastiani 1806–1812
• Antoine François Andréossy 1812–1815

1815–1914

Ambassadors under the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic, Second Empire and Third Republic.^[1]

• Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière 1815–1821
• Florimond de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg [fr] 1821–1823
• Armand Charles Guilleminot 1823–1832
• Albin Reine Roussin 1832–1839
• Edouard Pontois 1839–1841
• François-Adolphe de Bourqueney [fr] 1844–1851
• Charles La Valette 1851–1853
• Edmond de Lacour 1853-1853
• Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers 1853–1855
• Edouard Antoine de Thouvenel 1855–1860
• Charles La Valette 1860–1861
• Lionel Désiré Marie François René Moustiers 1861–1866
• Nicolas Prosper Bourée [fr] 1866–1870
• Louis Dubreuil-Héliou La Gueronnière 1870–1871
• Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé 1871–1875
• Jean-François Guillaume Bourgoing 1875–1877
• Hugues Fournier [fr] 1877–1880
• Charles-Joseph Tissot 1880–1882
• Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles 1882–1886
• Gustave Lannes de Montebello [fr] 1886–1891
• Paul Cambon 1891–1898
• Jean Antoine Ernest Constans 1898–1909
• Maurice Bompard 1909–1914

See also

• Franco-Ottoman alliance
• French Ambassador to Turkey (1925–present)

References

1. (in French) Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs depuis 1525, at the French embassy in Turkey; retrieved April 1, 2009
2. A full list of ambassadors and ministers under the Ancien Régime is in François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, Charles Henri Auguste Schefer, Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et sur le commerce des français dans le Levant, Paris, 1877, p. 179.

External links

• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs