List of Ambassadors of France to Greece

The following is a (currently) incomplete list of Ambassadors of France to Greece.

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For ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats of France in Greece who were active between 1815 and 1905, the data below is taken from a list of diplomats published in 1906 by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[1] For ambassadors and diplomats who were active after 1944, the data comes from two more recent lists also compiled by the ministry.^[2][3] Additional individual references are given in the table.

Start of term	End of term	Ambassador (or diplomat of highest rank)
1828	1835	Achille Rouen (Consul General until 1833 and Resident Minister afterwards)
	1843	Théodore de Lagrené[4] (Resident Minister until 1840 and Minister Plenipotentiary afterwards)
1843	1847	Théobald Piscatory[5] (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1848		Philippe Eugène Guillemot (Chargé d'Affaires)
1849	1850	Édouard Thouvenel (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1850	1851	Victor Lobstein (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1851	1854	Baron Alexandre de Forth-Rouen (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1854	1857	Henri Mercier (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1857	1859	Jean-Charles de Montherot (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1859	1859	Vicomte de Serres (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1859	1863	Nicolas Prosper Bourée (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1864	1868	Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1868	1870	Georges-Napoléon Baude (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1872	1872	Marquis de Cazeaux (Interim Chargé d'Affaires)
1872	1872	Jules Ferry (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1872	1873	Vicomte Roger de Borrelli (Interim Chargé d'Affaires)
1873	1876	Marquis de Gabriac (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1876	1880	Charles Tissot (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1880	1880	Maurice Ternaux-Compans (Interim Chargé d'Affaires)
1880	1880	Baron des Michels (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1880	1886	Charles de Moüy (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1886	1894	Charles Jean Tristan de Montholon (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1894	1897	Frédéric Albert Bourée (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1897	1909	Olivier d'Ormesson (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1909	1915	Gabriel Deville[6] (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1915	1917	Jean Guillemin[7] (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
August 1917[8]	1921	Robert de Billy[9]
1921	1921	Jean Tripier (Interim Chargé d'affaires)
December 1921	October 1924	Henri Chassain de Marcilly (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1924	1926	Charles de Chambrun (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1927	1927	Louis Frédéric Clément-Simon[10]
		...
??	1938	Adrien-Joseph-Marie Thierry[11] (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1938	1941	Gaston Maugras[12]
February 1941	1941	Jean Helleu[13] (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
1944	1945	Jean Baelen (representative of the Provisional Government)
1945	1951	Christian Carra de Vaux de Saint-Cyr
1951	1955	Jean Baelen
1955	1957	Pierre Albert Charpentier
1957	1964	Guy de Girard de Charbonnières
1964	1969	Jacques Baeyens
1969	1973	Bernard Durand
1973	1975	Christian Jacquin de Margerie
1975	1977	Jean-Marie Mérillon
1977	1980	Jacques de Folin
1980	1981	Philippe Rebeyrol
1981	1985	Dominique Charpy
1985	1987	Pierre-Louis Blanc
1987	1989	Marcel Plaisant
1989	1992	Jacques Thibau
1992	1995	Jean Cadet
1995	2000	Bernard Kessedjian
2000	2003	Jean-Maurice Ripert
2003	2007	Bruno Delaye
2007	2011	Christophe Farnaud
2011		Jean-Loup Kuhn-Delforge

See also

• France–Greece relations

References

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) (1906). "XII". Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République française. Paris Imprimerie Nationale. OCLC 7087084. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
2. "Liste chronologique des représentants permanents de la France avec rang d'ambassadeur auprès de commissions, organisations et conférences internationales" (PDF) (in French). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). p. 62. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
3. "Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs" (in French). French Embassy in Athens. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
4. Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny. "Marie, Melchior, Joseph, Théodore DE LAGRENÉ (biographie)". Excerpt from the authors' Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (in French). National Assembly (France). Retrieved 12 January 2013.
5. Pierangelo, Marion (18 April 2007). "François Guizot et Jean Colettis. La relation franco-grecque revisitée". Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin (in French). Institut Pierre Renouvin. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
6. Jolly, Jean. "Gabriel DEVILLE: Biographie". (excerpted from Jean Jolly's book: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1889 à 1940) (in French). National Assembly (France). Retrieved 12 January 2013.
7. S. P. Phocas-Cosmetatos (1970). Dossiers secrets de la Triple entente: Grèce, 1914-1922 (in French). Nouvelles Éditions latines. p. 135.
8. From January 1917, French representative towards the Provisional Government of National Defence in Salonica
9. Miranda Stavrinou (1996). "Gustave Fougères, l'École française d'Athènes et la propagande en Grèce durant les années 1917-1918". Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (in French) 120. pp. 83–99. doi:10.3406/bch.1996.4589. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
10. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Karel Kramář, sk:Vratislav Doubek, Korespondence T.G. Masaryk-Karel Kramář, Masarykův ústav AV ČR, 2005, S. 493
11. "Un mouvement diplomatique". Journal des Débats (in French). 29 May 1940. ISSN 1770-619X. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
13. "Jean Helleu". Senate. Retrieved 4 September 2014.