List of French ambassadors to the United States

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 Gérard Araud.

List of Ambassadors

from	to	Ambassadors
1778	1779	Conrad-Alexandre Gérard
1779	1784	Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne
1784	1785	François Barbé-Marbois chargé d'affaires ad interim
1785	1787	Louis-Guillaume Otto chargé d'affaires ad interim
1787	1789	Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier[3]
1791	1793	Chevalier Jean Baptiste Ternant [4]
1793	1794	Edmond-Charles Genêt
1794	1795	Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet[5][6]
1795	1796	Pierre Auguste Adet
1796	1800	Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit[7][8]
1800	1800	Joseph Bonaparte Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine
		Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine
		Pierre Louis Roederer Minister Plenipotentiary, Treaty of Mortefontaine
1801	1804	Louis Andre Pichon chargé d'affaires ad interim[9]
1804	1804	Felix Beaujour
1804	1811	General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville
1811	1815	Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier
1815	1821	Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville
1821	1824	Jacques de Menou chargé d'affaires ad interim
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 chargé d'affaires ad interim
1837	1838	Charles Edward Pontois[10]
1838	1841	Alphonse Pageot chargé d'affaires ad interim
1841	1846	Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
1843	1849	Alphonse Pageot[11]
1849	1850	Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte
1850	1851	Lavallée Poussin
1851	1860	Count Eugene de Sartiges[12]
1860	1864	Henri Mercier[13]
1864	1866	Charles Frederic Francois, Marquis de Montholon
1866	1870	Jules Berthemy
1870	1870	Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1870	1870	Jules Berthemy
1870	1870	Jules Treillard
1871	1871	Henry de Bellonnet chargé d'affaires ad interim
1872	1873	Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
1873	1877	Amedee Bartholdi[14]
1877	1882	Georges Maxime Outrey[15]
1882	1891	Theodore Roustan[16][17]
1891	1897	Jules Patenotre des Noyers
1897	1902	Jules Cambon
1902	1924	Jean Jules Jusserand
1924	1925	Emile Daeschner[18]
1925	1926	Henry Bérenger (1867–1952)[19]
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 Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation
1943	1943	Henri Hoppenot Delegate of the French Committee of National Liberation
1944	1954	Henri Bonnet
1954	1956	Maurice Couve de Murville
1956	1965	Hervé Alphand
1965	1972	Charles Lucet
1972	1977	Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet(1913–1994)[20]
1977	1981	Francois 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	Francois Delattre[21]
2014	–	Gérard Araud[22]

References

1. The World almanac & book of facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association. 1906.
2. http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/95681.htm
3. http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/collection/pre-pres_1788aug17.html
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7. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/2/528.2.full
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9. http://www.hnn.us/articles/3694.html
10. http://www.galerieheim.fr/oeuvre-details.php?id_oeuvre=76&lng=2
11. Annual report of the American Historical Association, Volume 2, p. 198, at Google Books
12. "Obituary". The New York Times. 6 October 1892.
13. http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19938
14. Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty, Yasmin Sabina Khan
15. The final report of the agent and counsel of the United States
16. "Theodore Roustan". The New York Times. 9 August 1906.
17. http://www.museeciotaden.org/Pages%20C%E9l%E8brit%E9s/roustanth%E9o.htm
18. "Exits and Entrances". Time. 27 October 1924.
19. "Died". Time magazine. April 17, 1933. Retrieved 2009-08-18. Died. Genevieve Delzant Berenger, wife of France's onetime (1926–27) Ambassador to the U. S. Victor-Henri Berenger; after long illness; in Paris.
20. "Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet". The Independent (London). 28 May 1994. Retrieved 2009-08-18. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, diplomat, died Saint-Nom-la-Breteche 15 May, aged 81. France's representative to the United Nations 1970–72. Ambassador to the United States 1972–77. National Secretary for Foreign Relations 1983–88.
21. http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article2155
22. http://www.franceintheus.org/spip.php?article5936