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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

Image From Until Ambassadors[3]
1778 1779 Conrad-Alexandre Gérard
1779 1784 Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne
1784 1785 François Barbé-Marbois[a]
1785 1787 Louis-Guillaume Otto[b]
1787 1789 Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier[4]
1791 1793 Chevalier Jean Baptiste Ternant[5]
1793 1794 Edmond-Charles Genêt
1794 1795 Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet[6][7]
1795 1796 Pierre Auguste Adet
1796 1800 Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit[8][9]
1800 1800 Joseph Bonaparte[c]
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu[d]
Pierre Louis Roederer[e]
1801 1804 Louis-André Pichon[f][10]
1804 1804 Felix Beaujour
1804 1811 General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville
1811 1815 Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier
1815 1821 Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville
1821 1824 Jacques de Menou[citation needed][g]
1824 1830 Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil
1830 1831 Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux Rochelle
1831 1835 Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier
1835 1837 Alphonse Pageot[h]
1837 1838 Charles Edward Pontois[11]
1838 1841 Alphonse Pageot[i]
1841 1846 Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt [fr]
1843 1849 Alphonse Pageot[j]
1848 1849 Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin[k]
1849 1850 Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte
1851 1860 Count Eugène de Sartiges[13]
1860 1864 Henri Mercier[14]
1864 1866 Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville
1866 1870 Jules Berthemy
1870 1870 Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1870 1870 Jules Berthemy
1870 1870 Jules Treillard
1871 1871 Henry de Bellonnet[l]
1872 1873 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
1873 1877 Amédée Bartholdi[15]
1877 1882 Georges Maxime Outrey[16]
1882 1891 Théodore Roustan[17][18]
1891 1897 Jules Patenôtre des Noyers
1897 1902 Jules Cambon
1902 1924 Jean Jules Jusserand
1924 1925 Emile Daeschner[19]
1925 1926 Henry Bérenger[20]
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[m]
1943 1943 Henri Hoppenot[n]
1944 1954 Henri Bonnet
1954 1956 Maurice Couve de Murville
1956 1965 Hervé Alphand
1965 1972 Charles Lucet
1972 1977 Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet[21]
1977 1981 François Lefebvre de Laboulaye
1981 1984 Bernard Vernier-Palliez
1984 1989 Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie
1989 1995 Jacques Andreani
1995 2002 François Bujon de l'Estang
2002 2007 Jean-David Levitte
2007 2010 Pierre Vimont
2011 2014 François Delattre[22]
2014 2019 Gérard Araud[23]
2019 2023 Philippe Étienne[24]
2023 - Laurent Bili[25]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  2. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  3. ^ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  4. ^ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  5. ^ Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.
  6. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  7. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  8. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  9. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  10. ^ On behalf of the July Monarchy)[12]
  11. ^ On behalf of the French Second Republic.
  12. ^ As chargé d'affaires ad interim.
  13. ^ Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation.
  14. ^ Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation.

References

  1. ^ The World almanac & book of facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association. 1906.
  2. ^ United States Department of State
  3. ^ "French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  4. ^ "Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS". Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS.
  5. ^ Adams, Douglas N. (1985). "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. JSTOR 27567907.
  6. ^ "Papers of the War Department". Archived from the original on 2011-09-01. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  7. ^ "OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service". classify.oclc.org.
  8. ^ Stinchcombe, William (1 September 2009). "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.)". Journal of American History. 96 (2): 528–529. doi:10.1093/jahist/96.2.528-a – via academic.oup.com.
  9. ^ This bright era of happy revolutions at Google Books
  10. ^ "Why We Are Partly Responsible for the Mess that is Haiti - History News Network". www.hnn.us.
  11. ^ "Galerie Jean-François HEIM Paris - Portrait of Amélie-Justine and Charles-Édouard Pontois". www.galerieheim.ch.
  12. ^ Annual report of the American Historical Association, Volume 2, p. 198, at Google Books
  13. ^ "Obituary" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 October 1892.
  14. ^ "Picture History : Henri Mercier, French Minister to the U.S." Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  15. ^ Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty, Yasmin Sabina Khan
  16. ^ Commission, French and American Claims (13 May 1884). "The Final Report of the Agent and Counsel of the United States: With Treaties and Schedule of Claims". Gibson Brothers, printers – via Google Books.
  17. ^ "Theodore Roustan". The New York Times. 9 August 1906.
  18. ^ "Théodore ROUSTAN". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
  19. ^ "Exits and Entrances". Time. 27 October 1924. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010.
  20. ^ "Died". Time magazine. April 17, 1933. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  21. ^ "Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet". The Independent. London. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  22. ^ "Ambassador of France to the U.S." France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
  23. ^ "The Ambassador". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
  24. ^ "Philippe Etienne Confirmed as the New French Ambassador in Washington". 6 May 2019.
  25. ^ "Mr. Laurent Bili is the new Ambassador of France to the United States". Consulat Général de France à San Francisco. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
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