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List of ambassadors of France to the Kingdom of Great Britain

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A list of French ambassadors to the Kingdom of Great Britain:[1]

French diplomats to the Kingdom of Great Britain

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Arms of Royal House of Bourbon
Image From Until Ambassadors
1697 1701 Camille d'Hostun de La Baume, comte later duc de Tallard[2]
1701 1715 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Croissy et de Torcy (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of France)
1701 1702 Chevalier Jean-Baptiste de Poussin (Acting Attaché)
1702 1705 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (Chargé d'affaires)
1703 1710 Abbé François Gaultier[3] (Acting Attaché)
1705 1707 Nathaniel, Baron Hooke (Military Attaché: Brigadier-General, French Army)
1708 1710 Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé (Chargé d'affaires)
1710 1710 Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (Franco-Italian Acting Attaché)
1711 1711 Chevalier Nicolas Mesnager (Acting Attaché)
1712 1712 Louis Marie Victor d'Aumont, 2nd Duke of Aumont (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1713 1712 Nicolas du Blé, marquis of Clermont and d'Huxelles (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1713 1713 Nicolas Mesnager, later comte de Saint-Jean (Acting Attaché)
1713 1716 Charles-François d'Iberville, marquis de La Bonde
1716 1718 Abbé Guillaume Dubois (later Cardinal)
1716 1722 Philippe Néricault Destouches, later comte de Langeron (Acting Attaché)
1718 1718 Yves d'Alègre, marquis de Tourzel
1718 1720 Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire
1722 1724 Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon
1724 1727 François-Marie, comte later duc de Broglie
1727 1731 Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie
1731 1731 Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny, comte de Toulongeon
1731 1732 Abbé Jacques Deschamps (alias Morel Deschamps, Acting Attaché)
1733 1735 Philippe de Montboissier de Beaufort, marquis de Canillac
1735 1736 Bishop Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1737 1739 Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis, vicomte de Lomagne later duc de Mirepoix
1740 1740 Chevalier Étienne de Silhouette (Acting Attaché)
1741 1742 Gabriel-Jacques de Salignac, vicomte de Saint-Julien later marquis de Fénelon (Ambassador Extraordinary)
War of Austrian Succession (1741–1748)
1746 1747 Jerónimo, duc de Grimaldi
1747 1747 General Ricardo Wall y Devereux (Military Attaché (Borbón-Condé))[a]
1747 1748 Bishop Guy de Guérapin de Vauréal (Acting Attaché)
1748 1749 Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt[5] (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1749 1754 Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis, duc de Mirepoix (Ambassador Extraordinary)
1751 1752 Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye (Chargé d'affaires)
1752 1753 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1754 1754 François Beauharnais de Beaumont, marquis de La Ferté (Military Attaché)
1754 1755 Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec (Ambassador Extraordinary)
1756 1757 Chevalier Charles d'Éon (Acting Attaché)
1758 1761 Chevalier Jacques-Abraham Durand d'Aubigny (Minister Plenipotentiary)
Seven Years' War (1756–1752)
1762 1763 Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazzarini, duc de Nevers
1763 1767 Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de Guerchy later marquis de Blosset
1768 1770 Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, duc du Châtelet
1770 1776 Jean-Étienne Say (Acting Attaché)
1770 1776 Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes
1776 1778 Emmanuel-Marie-Louis, marquis de Noailles
American War of Independence (1778–1782)
1783 1783 Elénor-François-Elie, marquis de Moustier (Chargé d'affaires)
1784 1787 Jean-Balthazar, comte d'Adhémar (Minister Plenipotentiary)
1788 1791 Anne-César, chevalier later marquis de La Luzerne
French Revolution (1792–1801)
1791 1792 Jean-Marie de Bancalis de Maurel, marquis d'Aragon
1792 1793 François-Bernard de Chauvelin, marquis de Grosbois
1792 1793 Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord, Bishop emeritus later Prince de Talleyrand (Envoy Extraordinary)
1793 1793 Citizen Hugues Maret later duc de Bassano (Envoy Extraordinary)
1793 1794 Citizen François later marquis de Barthélemy (Envoy Extraordinary)
1794 1794 Citizen Claude Monneron (Envoy Extraordinary)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ General Ricardo Wall y Devereux's diplomatic mission to London was for negotiating peace between the Bourbons and Great Britain but ran into difficulties partly because of reservations in British ministerial quarters about his Irish and Jacobite roots. He later served as Prime Minister of Spain.[4]

References

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  1. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Say, Léon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 275, 276.
  2. ^ www.british-history.ac.uk
  3. ^ www.bbc.co.uk: Abbé François Gaultier
  4. ^ "Ricardo Wall y Devreux | Real Academia de la Historia". dbe.rah.es. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
  5. ^ www.culture.gouv.fr