List of ambassadors of France to Germany: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|none}}

This '''list of ambassadors of France to Germany''' and precursors of the modern German state also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title.

{{incomplete list|date=October 2021}}

== Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire ==

{{About|France's envoys to the Perpetual Diet at Regensburg (1663–1806)|France's ambassadors to the Holy Roman Imperial Court|list of ambassadors of France to Austria|section=yes}}

[[File:Ehemalige Französische Gesandtschaft Regensburg Bismarckplatz 1 D-3-62-000-224 02.tif|thumb|The former French Legation to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg]]

* 1630–1633: [[François Leclerc du Tremblay]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Le Bas |first=Philippe |date=1844 |pages=893 |title=France. Dictionnaire encyclopédique |trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZ0nx5DoV7cC&pg=PA893 |language=French |location=Paris |publisher=Firmin Didot frères |isbn=}}</ref>

* 1653–1654: [[François Cazet de Vautorte]]

* 1658–1674: [[Robert de Gravel]]

* 1679–1688: [[Louis de Verjus]]

* 1716–1723: [[Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy]]

* 1726–1730: [[Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon|Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny]]

* 1741–1742: [[Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle]]

* 1763–1772: [[Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay]]

* 1775–1780: [[Marc Marie de Bombelles]]

* 1797–1799: [[Théobald Bacher]]

== Ambassadors to the German Confederation ==

Ambassadors to the [[German Confederation]], also accredited to the [[Free City of Frankfurt]], include:

For partial lists, see footnote<ref name="Annales"/> and.<ref name=annuaire/>

France established permanent diplomatic missions to individual German states during the Thirty Years War or shortly thereafter, most notably [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]], [[Electorate of Cologne|Cologne]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Kingdom of Saxony|Saxony]] and the free [[Hanseatic cities]] at [[Hamburg]], all of which date from a time around the 1620s to 1640s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Le Bas |first=Philippe |date=1844 |pages= |title=France. Dictionnaire encyclopédique |trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZ0nx5DoV7cC&pg=PA885 |language=French |location=Paris |publisher=Firmin Didot frères |isbn=}}</ref>

{|

|- valign="top"

| style="width:475px" |

'''{{flagcountry|Electorate of Bavaria}}''': French envoys to the Bavarian Court at [[Munich]]

*1624–1626: Victor Claude Alexandre de Faneau

*1626–1631: Henri de Gournay de Marcheville

*1631–1632: Hercule de Charnacé

*1679–1680: [[Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy|Charles Colbert de Croissy]]

*1687–1688: [[Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars]]

*1743–1745: Daniel François de Gélas de Lautrec

*1745–1746: [[Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon|Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny]]

*1746–1748: [[Armand de Vignerot du Plessis]]

*1748–1755: François de Baschi

*1755–1756: Hubert de Folard

*1756–1757: [[Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay]]

*1776–1776: [[François Barbé-Marbois]]

*1777–1778: [[Anne-César de La Luzerne]]

*1780–1789: Messire Louis de Montezan

*1792–1792: Frédéric Flamen d'Assigny

*1798–1799: [[Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier]]

*1803–1809: [[Louis-Guillaume Otto]]

*1810–1814: [[Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara|Louis de Narbonne-Lara]]

*1814–1816: [[Jules de Polignac]]

*1816–1820: Auguste Delagarde

*1821–1826: Louis-Toussaint de la Moussaye

*1827–1831: Marie-Théodore de Rumigny

*1832–1833: [[Charles-Joseph Bresson]]

*1833–1834: Alfred de Vaudreuil

*1835–1849: [[Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing]]

*1850–1851: [[Édouard Thouvenel]]

*1880–1882: [[Gustave Olivier Lannes de Montebello]]

*1888–1896: [[Camille Barrère]]

*1897–1904: Jules Henrys d'Aubigny

*1904–1907: Alfred Chilhaud-Dumaine

*1907–1909: Ernest René Joseph Adrien Bourgarel

*1909–1914: [[Henri Allizé]]

*1920–1924: Émile Dard

*1924–1933: Charles François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson

*1933–1934: Aimé Leroy

'''{{flagcountry|Electorate of Cologne}}''': French envoys to the Cologne Court at [[Bonn]]

*1758–1760: [[Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil]]

'''{{flag|Hamburg}}''': French envoys to Lübeck, Bremen and Hamburg

*1637–1642: [[Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux|Claude de Mesmes]]

*1661–1675: [[Pierre Bidal d'Asfeld]]

*1768–1770: [[Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles]]

*1788–1790: [[Jean-François de Bourgoing]]

*1795–1805: [[Charles-Frédéric Reinhard]]

*1805–1810: [[Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]]

*1825–1829: [[Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle]]

| style="width:475px" |

'''{{flag|Prussia}}''': French envoys to the Brandenburg-Prussian Court at [[Berlin]]

*1614–1614: [[Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul]]

*1655–1656: [[Antoine de Lumbres]]

*1660–1661: [[Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy|Charles Colbert de Croissy]]

*1661–1661: [[ Hugues de Lionne]]

*1679–1679: [[Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne]]

*1715–1715: [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy]]

*1732–1739: [[Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie]]

*1740–1748: [[Louis Guy Henri de Valori]]

*1750–1752: [[Richard Francis Talbot]]

*1756–1756: [[Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini]]

*1768–1769: [[Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes|Adrien-Louis de Bonnières]]

*1790–1791: [[Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier]]

*1798–1799: [[Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès]]

*1799–1800: [[Louis-Guillaume Otto]]

*1800–1802: [[Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville]]

*1802–1804: [[Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon]]

*1805–1806: [[Antoine de Laforêt]]

*1799–1806: [[Géraud Duroc]], special envoy

*1808–1813: Antoine Marie Philippe Asinari de Saint-Marsan

*1814–1816: Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman

*1816–1821: [[Charles François, Marquis de Bonnay]]

*1821–1822: [[François-René de Chateaubriand]]

*1822–1824: Maximilien Gérard de Rayneval

*1824–1825: [[Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing]]

*1825–1828: [[Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest|Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard de Saint-Priest]]

*1828–1831: Hector-Philippe, comte d'Agoult

*1831–1831: [[Carel Hendrik Ver Huell]]

*1831–1831: [[Charles, comte de Flahaut]]

*1833–1834: [[Charles Joseph, comte Bresson]]

*1843–1849: [[Napoléon-Hector Soult, marquis of Dalmatia]]

*1849–1849: [[Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny]]

*1849–1850: [[Emmanuel Arago]]

*1850–1851: Alexandre, comte de Lurde

*1851–1853: Armand Lefebvre

*1853–1859: [[Lionel de Moustier]]

*1859–1862: [[Godefroi, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais|Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais]]

*1863–1864: [[Charles Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord|Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord]]

*1864–1870: [[Vincent, Count Benedetti|Vincent Benedetti]]

'''{{flag|Saxony|kingdom}}''': French envoys to the Saxon Court at [[Dresden]]

*1815-1816: [[Joseph Fouché]]

*1816-1817: [[Marc-René de Montalembert (1777-1831)|Marc-René, count of Montalambert]]

*1816, 1817-1818: Edouard Dillon

*1818–1820: [[Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg]]

*1820–1827: [[Marie-Théodore de Rumigny]]

*1827–1830: [[Georges de Riquet de Caraman]]

*1830–1832: [[Charles-Frédéric Reinhard]]

*1832–1835: [[Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing]]

|}

At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in [[Grand Duchy of Baden|Baden]], [[Kingdom of Hanover|Hanover]], [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-Kassel]], [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt|Hesse-Darmstadt]], [[Nassau (state)|Nassau]] and [[Kingdom of Württemberg|Württemberg]].<ref name="Annales">{{cite book|last=Count Guillaume de Garden |title=Répertoire diplomatique: annales du droit des gens et de la politique extérieure|publisher=J. Claye|year=1861|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CLoFAAAAQAAJ/page/n58 45]–46 (2nd volume)|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CLoFAAAAQAAJ|language=French}}</ref><ref name=annuaire>{{cite book|last=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)|author-link=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)|title=Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République Française|publisher=Paris, Imprimerie Nationale|year=1887|volume=9|pages=321|chapter=X: Ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, etc de France à l'étranger de 1815 à 1855|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o69BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323|language=French}}</ref> After disestablishment of the German Confederation and establishment of the North-German Confederation, France's mission at Berlin became France's principal mission to Germany.

== Ambassadors to the German Empire and Germany (1871–1939) ==

For main sources for this section, see footnote<ref>{{cite book|last=Aballéa|first=Marion|title=L'Europe, nouvelles approches|publisher=Editions L'Harmattan|year=2012|pages=9–28|chapter=Entre soumission politico-administrative et goût de l'initiative individuelle: les diplomates français en poste à Berlin de 1871 aux années 1930|isbn=9782296966864|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RoHsSp-y30C&pg=PA9|accessdate=20 January 2013|language=French}}</ref> and.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ambafrance-de.org/spip.php?page=mobile_art&art=288 |title=La France en Allemagne. Hier - un peu d'histoire |last=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) |author-link=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) |publisher=[[French Embassy in Berlin]] |language=French |accessdate=20 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312073647/http://www.ambafrance-de.org/spip.php?page=mobile_art&art=288 |archivedate=12 March 2014 }}</ref>

| align="center" | 1872 || align="center" | 1877 || [[Elie de Gontaut-Biron]]<ref>Resigned in December 1877.</ref>

| align="center" | June 1920 || align="center" | December 1922|| [[Charles François Laurent]]<ref>*{{citation|language=fr|title=Les dirigeants des grandes entreprises industrielles françaises au 20e siècle. Des notables aux gestionnaires|journal=Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire|page=25 |last=Joly |first=Hervé|year=2012|volume=2 |issue=114|doi=10.3917/vin.114.0016 |url=https://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=VIN_114_0016|accessdate=2017-10-17|doi-access=free}}</ref>

For main sources for this section, see footnote<ref name=MoFAlist>{{cite web|url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/maep0035-0120_cle8a5377.pdf|title=Liste chronologique des représentants permanents de la France avec rang d'ambassadeur auprès de commissions, organisations et conférences internationales|publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)]]|pages=37|language=French|accessdate=17 December 2012}}</ref> and.<ref name="BerlinEmbassy">{{cite web|url=http://www.ambafrance-de.org/Ambassadeurs-en-Allemagne-depuis|title=Ambassadeurs en Allemagne depuis 1955|last=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)|author-link=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)|publisher=[[French Embassy in Berlin]]|language=French|accessdate=20 January 2013}} Also available [http://www.ambafrance-de.org/Botschafter-in-Deutschland-seit in German] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721025010/http://www.ambafrance-de.org/Botschafter-in-Deutschland-seit |date=2015-07-21 }}</ref>

For the main source for this section, see footnote<ref name=MoFAlist/> and.<ref name="BerlinEmbassy"/>

For main sources for this section, see footnote<ref name=MoFAlist/> and.<ref name="BerlinEmbassy"/>

| align="center" | 2007 || align="center" | 2011 || [[Bernard de Faubournet de Montferrand|Bernard de Montferrand]]

| align="center" | 2017 || align="center" | 2022 || [[Anne-Marie Descôtes]]

|-

| align="center" | 2022 || align="center" | || [[François Delattre]]<ref>Philippe Ricard (31 July 2022), [https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/07/31/le-chasse-croise-des-ambassadeurs-renouvelle-la-direction-du-ministere-des-affaires-etrangeres_6136771_3210.html Le chassé-croisé des ambassadeurs renouvelle la direction du ministère des affaires étrangères] ''[[Le Monde]]''.</ref>