List of ambassadors of France to the United States: Difference between revisions

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| post = {{flagicon image|Flag of France.svg}} <br /> France's Ambassador<br /><small>to the United States of America</small>

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| department = [[Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)|Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs]] <br> [[Embassy of France, Washington, D.C.|French Embassy, Washington D.C.]]

| image = French Ambassador to the United States Laurent Bili (cropped).jpg

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| incumbent = [[Laurent Bili]]

| incumbentsince = 14 February 2023

| style = [[Excellency|His Excellency]]

| residence = [[French Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.|French Ambassador's Residence, Washington, D.C.]]

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| inaugural = [[Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval|Conrad-Alexandre Gérard]]

| formation = 1778

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| website = [https://franceintheus.org/ French Embassy – Washington]

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! Ambassadors<ref>{{Cite web |title=French Ambassadors to the United States since 1893 |url=https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article6952 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. |language=en}}</ref>

| [[File:Conrad Alexandre Gérard portrait.jpg|90px]] || 1778 || 1779 || [[Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval|Conrad-Alexandre Gérard]]

| [[File:Anne César de la Luzerne.jpg|90px]] || 1779 || 1784 || [[Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne]]

| ||||[[ ]] ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''

| [[File:Le comte Otto de Mosloy et le comte Pelet.jpg|90px]] || 1785 || 1787 || [[Louis-Guillaume Otto]]{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}

| || 1787 || 1789 || [[Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/program/retired-site/|title=Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS|website=Retired Site - PBS Programs - PBS}}</ref>

| [[File:Jean-Baptiste de Ternant, 1781.jpg|90px]] || 1791 || 1793 || Chevalier [[Jean Baptiste Ternant]]<ref>{{cite journal |title= Jean Baptiste Ternant, Inspector General and Advisor to the Commanding Generals of the Southern Forces 1778-1782|journal=The South Carolina Historical Magazine|volume=86|issue=3|pages=221–240|jstor=27567907|last1=Adams|first1=Douglas N.|year=1985}}</ref>

| [[File:Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834).jpg|90px]] || 1793 || 1794 || [[Edmond-Charles Genêt]]

| || 1794 || 1795 || [[Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wardepartmentpapers.org/searchresults.php?searchClass=fulltextSearch&fulltextQuery=Jean+Antoine+Joseph+Fauchet |title=Papers of the War Department |access-date=2011-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901232117/http://wardepartmentpapers.org/searchresults.php?searchClass=fulltextSearch&fulltextQuery=Jean+Antoine+Joseph+Fauchet |archive-date=2011-09-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?swid=036079738|title=OCLC Classify -- an Experimental Classification Service|website=classify.oclc.org}}</ref>

| [[File:Pierre Auguste Adet.jpg|90px]] || 1795 || 1796 || [[Pierre Adet|Pierre Auguste Adet]]

| [[File:Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit.png|90px]] || 1796 || 1800 || [[Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit]]<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/96/2/528/727810|title=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.)|first=William|last=Stinchcombe|date=1 September 2009|journal=Journal of American History|volume=96|issue=2|pages=528–529|via=academic.oup.com|doi=10.1093/jahist/96.2.528-a}}</ref><ref>{{Google books |id=ru_JrzDxBJ8C |title=This bright era of happy revolutions |page= }}</ref>

| || || ]]Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine

| || || [[Pierre ]]Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine

| [[File:Pierre-Louis Roederer.jpg|90px]] || || || [[Pierre Louis Roederer]]{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine.}}

| || 1801 || 1804 || [[Louis-André Pichon]]{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hnn.us/articles/3694.html|title=Why We Are Partly Responsible for the Mess that is Haiti - History News Network|website=www.hnn.us}}</ref>

| || 1804 || 1804 || [[Felix Beaujour]]

| [[File:Louis Marie Turreau (détail).jpg|90px]] || 1804 || 1811 || General [[Louis Marie Turreau|Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville]]

| || 1811 || 1815 || [[Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier]]

| [[File:Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville.jpg|90px]] || 1815 || 1821 || [[Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville]]

| [[File:Jacques Menou 1750 1810.jpg|90px]] || 1821 || 1824 || [[Jacques de Menou]]{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}

| [[File:Joseph, Alexandre, Jacques Durant Comte de Mareuil.jpg|90px]] || 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{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}

| || 1837 || 1838 || Charles Edward Pontois<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galerieheim.ch/oeuvre-details.php?id_oeuvre=76&lng=2|title=Galerie Jean-François HEIM Paris - Portrait of Amélie-Justine and Charles-Édouard Pontois|website=www.galerieheim.ch}}</ref>

| || 1838 || 1841 || Alphonse Pageot{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}

| [[File:Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt (1801-1865).jpg|90px]] || 1841 || 1846 || {{ill|Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt|fr}}

| || 1843 || 1849 || Alphonse Pageot{{refn|group=lower-alpha|On behalf of the [[July Monarchy]])<ref>{{Google books |id=K2grAQAAIAAJ |page=198 |title=Annual report of the American Historical Association, Volume 2 }}</ref>}}

| || 1848 || 1849 || [[Guillaume Tell Poussin|Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin]]{{refn|group=lower-alpha|On behalf of the [[French Second Republic]].}}

| || 1849 || 1850 || Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte

| || 1851 || 1860 || Count [[Eugène de Sartiges]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/10/06/106087315.pdf | work=The New York Times | title=Obituary | date=6 October 1892}}</ref>

| || 1860 || 1864 || [[Henri Mercier]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19938 |title=Picture History : Henri Mercier, French Minister to the U.S. |accessdate=2011-06-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320052152/http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19938 |archive-date=2012-03-20 }}</ref>

| [[File:Marquis de Montholon - crop.JPG|90px]] || 1864 || 1866 || [[Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville]]

| || 1866 || 1870 || Jules Berthemy

| [[File:Paradol Prevost, French Minister - NARA - 526814 (cropped).jpg|90px]] || 1870 || 1870 || [[Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol]]

| 1870||1870|| Jules

| || 1870 || 1870 || Jules Treillard

| || 1871 || 1871 || Henry de Bellonnet{{refn|group=lower-alpha|As ''chargé d'affaires ad interim''.}}

| [[File:Emmanuel-Henri-Victurnien-Marquis de noailles-crop.jpg|90px]] || 1872 || 1873 || [[Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles]]

| || 1873 || 1877 || Amédée Bartholdi<ref>[https://archive.org/details/enlighteningworl00khan/page/123 <!-- quote=Amedee Bartholdi. --> ''Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty''], Yasmin Sabina Khan</ref>

| || 1877 || 1882 || Georges Maxime Outrey<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0YwAAAAYAAJ&q=Georges+Maxime+Outrey&pg=RA1-PA4|title=The Final Report of the Agent and Counsel of the United States: With Treaties and Schedule of Claims|first=French and American Claims|last=Commission|date=13 May 1884|publisher=Gibson Brothers, printers|via=Google Books}}</ref>

| [[File:Théodore Roustan en 1881.jpg|90px]] || 1882 || 1891 || [[Théodore Roustan]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1071EFA395512738DDDA00894D0405B868CF1D3 | work=The New York Times | title=Theodore Roustan | date=9 August 1906}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.museeciotaden.org/Pages%20C%E9l%E8brit%E9s/roustanth%E9o.htm |title=Théodore ROUSTAN |access-date=2011-06-14 |archive-date=2011-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722062528/http://www.museeciotaden.org/Pages%20C%E9l%E8brit%E9s/roustanth%E9o.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

| [[File:Jules Patenôtre des Noyers.jpg|90px]] || 1891 || 1897 || [[Jules Patenôtre des Noyers]]

| [[File:Jules Cambon 1932b.jpg|90px]] || 1897 || 1902 || [[Jules Cambon]]

| [[File:Jean Jules Jusserand cph.3b15757.jpg|90px]] || 1902 || 1924 || [[Jean Jules Jusserand]]

| ||||[[ ]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web//http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November , 2010 |=Time = |= }}</ref>

| [[File:Henry Bérenger-1925.jpg|90px]] || 1925 || 1926 || [[Henry Bérenger]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Died |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847312,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122123230/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847312,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 22, 2010 |work=[[Time magazine]] |date=April 17, 1933 |accessdate=2009-08-18 }}</ref>

| [[File:Paul Claudel cph.3b31258.jpg|90px]] || 1926 || 1933 || [[Paul Claudel]]

| [[File:André Lefebvre de Laboulaye.jpg|90px]] || 1933 || 1937 || [[André Lefebvre de La Boulaye]]

| [[File:Georges Bonnet 1937.jpg|90px]] || 1937 || 1938 || [[Georges Bonnet]]

| [[File:French Ambassador sees President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 29. Count de Saint-Quentin, French Ambassador, leaving the White House today after an especially requested conference with LCCN2016877698.jpg|90px]] || 1938 || 1940 || [[René Doynel de Saint-Quentin]]

| [[File:Gaston Henry-Haye 1932.jpg|90px]] || 1940 || 1942 || [[Gaston Henry-Haye]]

| ||||[[ ]]Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation

| || 1943 || 1943 || [[Henri Hoppenot]]{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Delegate of the [[French Committee of National Liberation]].}}

| [[File:Ondertekening van het Handvest der Verenigde Volkeren Henri Bonnet, Bestanddeelnr 900-9056 (cropped).jpg|90px]] || 1944 || 1954 || [[Henri Bonnet]]

| [[File:Opening NATO conferentie Couve de Murville en Luns, Bestanddeelnr 916-4274 (cropped).jpg|90px]] || 1954 || 1956 || [[Maurice Couve de Murville]]

| ||||[[ ]]

| [[File:Pertini Lucet 1972 cropped.png|90px]] || 1965 || 1972 || [[Charles Lucet]]

| || 1972 || 1977 || [[Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jacques-kosciuskomorizet-1438985.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=28 May 1994 |accessdate=2009-08-18 |location=London}}</ref>

| || 1977 || 1981 || [[François Lefebvre de Laboulaye]]

| || 1981 || 1984 || [[Bernard Vernier-Palliez]]

| [[File:Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie and Ronald Reagan.jpg|90px]] || 1984 || 1989 || [[Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie]]

| || 1989 || 1995 || [[Jacques Andreani]]

| [[File:Bujon.jpg|90px]] || 1995 || 2002 || [[François Bujon de l'Estang]]

| [[File:Jean-David Levitte.jpg|90px]] || 2002 || 2007 || [[Jean-David Levitte]]

| [[File:Pierre Vimont.jpg|90px]] || 2007 || 2010 || [[Pierre Vimont]]

| || ||[[ ]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?|title=Ambassador|website=France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

| | |url=https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?|= |website=France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

| [[File:Philippe Étienne 2020 (cropped).jpg|90px]] || 2019 || 2023 || [[Philippe Étienne]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://france-amerique.com/en/philippe-etienne-confirme-ambassadeur-de-france-a-washington/|title=Philippe Etienne Confirmed as the New French Ambassador in Washington|date=6 May 2019}}</ref>

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|'''[[:fr:Laurent_Bili|Laurent Bili]]'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mr. Laurent Bili is the new Ambassador of France to the United States |url=https://sanfrancisco.consulfrance.org/mr-laurent-bili-is-the-new-ambassador-of-france-to-the-united-states |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=Consulat Général de France à San Francisco |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[List of ambassadors of the United States to France]]

==Notes==

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