List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

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:

Ambassador of France to the United Kingdom
Ambassadeur de France au Royaume-Uni
Incumbent Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne since 2022
Style	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Residence	11 Kensington Palace Gardens

Embassy of France, London

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

French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688)

Further information: List of ambassadors of France to England

French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801)

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

French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)

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 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

• French Embassy in London
• List of ambassadors of France to the Kingdom of Great Britain
• List of ambassadors of France to England

References

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".

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Say, Léon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 275, 276.

External links

• Dictionnaire de la Noblesse
• Liste des Ambassadeurs, Envoyés, Ministres et autres Agents politiques de la Cour de La France. François-Marie Guérard, Paris 1833