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List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

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Field	Value
post	Ambassador
body	France to the United Kingdom
native_name	Ambassadeur de France au Royaume-Uni
insignia	Arms of the French Republic.svg
insigniasize	120px
image	Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne - 2023 (cropped).jpg
incumbent	Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne
incumbentsince	2022
style	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
residence	11 Kensington Palace Gardens

This is the List of ambassadors from France to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, operating from the Embassy of France, London:

Embassy of France, London

Main article: Embassy of France, London

The embassy of France in London is located just off Knightsbridge at Albert Gate, one of the entrances to Hyde Park, directly opposite the Embassy of Kuwait. The building was designed by the British architect Thomas Cubitt. At the time of its construction in the 1840s, it was among the tallest structures in the Knightsbridge area.

France also owns various premises along the Cromwell Road, South Kensington which house its Consular, Cultural, Science & Technology and Visa sections. It also has a Trade mission at 28-29 Haymarket and a Paymaster & Financial Comptroller section at 30 Queen's Gate Terrace, South Kensington, while No. 11 Kensington Palace Gardens has been the French Ambassador's official residence since 1944.

French Ambassadors

French Ambassadors to England (1526–1688)

French Ambassadors to Great Britain (1697–1801)

French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)

Imperial French Arms

Heraldic emblem of the French Republic

Image	From	Until	Ambassadors
[[File:Le comte Otto de Mosloy et le comte Pelet.jpg	90px]]	1801	1802	Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (Chargé d'affaires)
[[File:Eymar - François-Andréossi.jpg	90px]]	1803	1804	General Antoine Andréossy later comte de l'Empire
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1814)
[[File:Lefebvre - Claude-Louis de La Châtre.jpg	90px]]	1814	1815	Louis, duc de La Chastre
[[File:René-Eustache Marquis D'Osmond (cropped).jpg	90px]]	1815	1819	René-Eustache, marquis d'Osmond
[[File:Victor de Faÿ marquis de La Tour-Maubourg 1768-1850.jpg	90px]]	1819	1819	Victor de Faÿ, marquis de La Tour-Maubourg
[[File:Elie Decazes.jpg	90px]]	1820	1821	Élie, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg
[[File:Antoine-VIII-duc-de-Guiche.jpg	90px]]	1821	1821	Antoine, duc de Gramont
[[File:Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson 006.jpg	90px]]	1822	1823	François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
[[File:Portrait de Jules de Polignac.jpg	90px]]	1823	1828	Jules, prince de Polignac
[[File:Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency-Laval.jpg	90px]]	1828	1830	Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency, duc de Laval
[[File:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.jpg	90px]]	1830	1834	Charles, prince de Talleyrand
[[File:Charles-Joseph, comte Bresson.jpg	90px]]	1830	1832	Charles-Joseph Bresson, chevalier later comte de l'Empire
(First Secretary, on behalf of Talleyrand)
[[File:SebastianiMarshal.jpg	90px]]	1835	1840	Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte de La Porta
[[File:Guizot, François - 2.jpg	90px]]	1840	1840	Ministre François Guizot
[[File:Saint-Aulaire Litho.jpg	90px]]	1841	1847	Louis de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
[[File:De Broglie (BM 1874,1114.657).jpg	90px]]	1847	1848	Victor, duc de Broglie
[[File:Beaumont, Gustave de.jpg	90px]]	1848	1848	Gustave-Auguste Bonnin de La Bonninière, comte de Beaumont
[[File:Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys.jpg	90px]]	1848	1851	Ministre Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys
[[File:Comte Walewski Congrès de Paris 1856 BNF Gallica.jpg	90px]]	1851	1855	Alexandre-Florian-Joseph Colonna, comte Walewski
[[File:Persigny.jpg	90px]]	1855	1858	Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
[[File:Portret van maarschalk Aimable Pélissier tijdens de Krimoorlog Maréchal Pelissier (titel op object), RP-F-F80055.jpg	90px]]	1858	1859	Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, duc de Malakoff
[[File:Persigny.jpg	90px]]	1859	1860	Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny
[[File:Charles Comte de Flahaut.jpg	90px]]	1860	1862	Charles-Joseph, comte de Flahaut
[[File:Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros 1858.JPG	90px]]	1862	1863	Jean-Baptiste-Louis, baron Gros
[[File:La Tour d'Auvergne, Henri prince de.jpg	90px]]	1863	1869	Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne
[[File:La Valette, Charles Jean Marie Felix.jpg	90px]]	1869	1870	Charles, marquis de La Valette
[[File:Jarnac, comte (Monde illustré, 1875-04-03).jpg	90px]]	1871	1872	Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, comte de Jarnac
[[File:Broglie Albert.JPG	90px]]	1872	1873	Albert, duc de Broglie
[[File:Nadar - Louis Decazes (1819-1886).jpg	90px]]	1873	1873	Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanieu, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg
[[File:Léon Bonnat - Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld.jpg	90px]]	1873	1874	Sosthène, vicomte de La Rochefoucauld later duc de Doudeauville
	1875	1879	Georges, marquis d'Harcourt
[[File:Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau by Reutlinger.jpg	90px]]	1879	1880	Amiral Louis-Pierre-Alexis de Pothuau
[[File:LeonSay.jpg	90px]]	1880	1880	Ministre Léon Say
[[File:ETH-BIB-Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (1827-1896), Professor am eidg. Polytechnikum 1856-1859-Portrait-Portr 05548.tif (cropped).jpg	90px]]	1880	1882	Sénateur Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
[[File:William Waddington.jpg	90px]]	1883	1893	Dr. William Henry Waddington (Prime Minister of France, 1879)
[[File:Baron de Courcel.jpg	90px]]	1894	1898	Alphonse Chodron, baron de Courcel
[[File:Paul Cambon 01.jpg	90px]]	1898	1920	Paul Cambon
[[File:1916.09.24 Le Miroir - Contele de Saint Aulaire ministrul Frantei la Bucuresti.png	90px]]	1920	1924	Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire
[[File:Fleuriau. Photograph. Wellcome V0028702.jpg	90px]]	1924	1933	Aimé-Benjamin de Fleuriau, comte de Bellevue
[[File:André Charles Corbin in 1929 (cropped).jpg	90px]]	1933	1940	Charles Corbin
World War II (1940–1944)
[[File:René Massigli 1929.jpg	90px]]	1944	1955	René Massigli
	1955	1962	Chevalier Jean Chauvel
	1962	1972	Geoffroy Chodron, baron de Courcel
[[File:Jacques Delarüe-Caron de Beaumarchais.png	90px]]	1972	1977	Jacques Delarüe-Caron de Beaumarchais
[[File:Jean Sauvagnargues - 1974 (cropped).jpg	90px]]	1977	1981	Jean Sauvagnargues
[[File:Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie and Ronald Reagan.jpg	90px]]	1981	1984	Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie
	1984	1986	Jacques Viot
	1986	1990	Luc, vicomte de La Barre de Nanteuil
	1990	1993	Bernard Dorin
[[File:Jean Guéguinou, Ambassadeur de France.jpg	90px]]	1993	1998	Jean Guéguinou
	1998	2002	Daniel Bernard
[[File:Gerard ERRERA.jpg	90px]]	2002	2007	Gérard Errera
[[File:Gedenkfeier Charles de Gaulles Besuch in Köln vor 50 Jahren-9225.jpg	90px]]	2007	2011	Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
[[File:Bernard Emié 19 March 2013.jpg	90px]]	2011	2014	Bernard Émié
[[File:Sylvie Bermann.JPG	90px]]	2014	2017	Sylvie Bermann
[[File:M JOUYET 08 AMF 2009.JPG	90px]]	2017	2019	Jean-Pierre Jouyet
[[File:Catherine Colonna - 2023 (cropped).jpg	90px]]	2019	2022	Catherine Colonna
[[File:Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne - 2023 (cropped).jpg	90px]]	2022	Present	Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne

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(1992). "[[The London Encyclopaedia]]". [[Macmillan Publishers.
[http://www.napoleon.org/fr/salle_lecture/biographies/files/477317.asp GROS, Jean-Baptiste Louis, baron (1793–1870), ambassadeur]. Extract from the ''Dictionnaire du Second Empire'' (1995)
[http://daf.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/sdx-222-daf-bora-ap/ap/pdf.xsp?id=DAFANCH00AP_644AP&f=d.pdf 644 AP • Fonds La Tour d’Auvergne-Lauragais], Archives de France.
"Charles, Jean, Marie, Félix de La Valette – Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 – Assemblée nationale".
Gilles Le Béguec, [http://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=08&rub=dossier&item=79 Les entourages des chefs de l’Etat sous les IIIe et IVe Républiques].
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyoxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA650 Amiral Pothuau] in ''Le Mémorial diplomatique''
[http://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/courcel_alphonse_chodron_de1653r3.html COURCEL, Alphonse CHODRON de] Extract from the ''Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français'', Jean Jolly
(9 June 1924). "Foreign News: Cambon Dead".
"Timeline of Ambassadors since 1941".
"Biographie Jacques Viot Ambassadeur de France".
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"''Debrett's People of Today'': Bernard Emié".

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