List of ambassadors of France to Belgium

The following is a list of ambassadors of France to Belgium. It also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Belgium who did not formally have the ambassador title.

The three main sources used to build the list are the website of the French Embassy in Brussels, a more formal list of French ambassadors post-World War II compiled by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and two more detailed lists of high-ranking diplomats which only cover parts of the 19th century.[1][2][3][4] Additional references are provided below for specific individuals.

Start of term[note 1] End of term[note 1] Ambassador (or diplomat of highest rank[note 2])
1830 1831 Charles Joseph, comte Bresson (special envoy)
1831 1832 Augustin Daniel Belliard
1832 1832 Auguste de Tallenay (chargé d'affaires and interim head of mission following the death of Belliard)[5][6]
1832 1836 Charles Armand Septime de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg[note 3]
1836 1840 Louis Sérurier
1840 1848 Marie-Hippolyte de Gueulluy, 2nd Marquess of Rumigny (ambassador)
1848 1848 Louis Sérurier (chargé d'affaires)
1848 1848 Mr. Bellocq [7]
1848 1852 Théodore Quinette[7]
1852 1852 Charles Adrien His, Comte de Butenval
1852 1853 Napoléon Maret, Duc de Bassano
1853 1858 Adolphe Barrot
1858 1860 Comte Gustave de Monttessuy
1860 1862 Baron de Talleyrand
1862 1863 Baron de Malaret
1863 1864 Théophile de Ferrière-le-Vayer
1864 1868 Comte de Comminges-Guitaut
1868 1870 Louis Étienne Arthur Dubreuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière[8]
1870 1870 Jules Berthémy (never took office)
1870 1870 Paul de Laboulaye (chargé d'affaires)
1870 1871 Albert Tachard
1871 1873 Ernest Picard
1873 1876 Georges-Napoléon Baude
1876 1878 Joseph de Cadoine, Marquis de Gabriac
1878 1880 Tanneguy Duchâtel
1880 1882 Albert Decrais
1882 1886 Gustave Lannes, Comte de Montebello
1886 1894 Albert Bourée
1894 1897 Charles Jean Tristan de Montholon
1897 1906 Auguste Gérard
1906 1909 Olivier Le Fèvre Comte d’Ormesson
1909 1911 Paul Beau
1911 1918 Antony Wladislas Klobukowski
1918 1919 Albert Defrance
1919 1922 Pierre de Margerie
1922 1929 Maurice Herbette
1929 1931 Emmanuel de Peretti de la Rocca
1931 1933 Charles Corbin
1933 1935 Paul Claudel
1935 1937 Jules Laroche
1937 1940 Paul Bargeton
1942 1944 Jean-Claude Paris (representative of the Comité national français)
1944 1947 Raymond Brugère
1947 1952 Jean de Hauteclocque
1952 1956 Jean Rivière
1956 1962 Raymond Bousquet
1962 1963 Francis Lacoste
1963 1965 Henry Spitzmuller
1965 1970 Étienne de Crouy-Chanel
1970 1973 Gontran Begougne de Juniac
1973 1980 Francis Hure
1980 1983 Roger Vaurs
1983 1986 Jacques Thibau
1986 1986 Jean Audibert
1986 1988 Jacques Lecompt
1988 1991 Xavier Marie du Cauzé de Nazelle
1991 1993 Alain Pierret
1993 1998 Jacques Bernière
1998 2002 Jacques Rummelhardt
2003 2007 Joëlle Bourgois
2007 2009 Dominique Boché
2009 2012 Michèle Boccoz
2012 2015 Bernard Valero
2015 2019 Claude-France Arnould
2019 2021 Hélène Farnaud-Defromont
2021 Incumbent François Sénémaud
  1. ^ a b Sources typically do not explain what they consider as the start of term of the diplomat (day on which the diplomat was named, took office, presented his Letter of credence and so on). This can explain some of the slight discrepancies of dates from one list to another.
  2. ^ Unless otherwise noted, individuals in this list from 1831 to 1906 had the title of Minister Plenipotentiary or (equivalently) Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Starting in 1909 they hold the title of Ambassador.
  3. ^ Son of Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Liste chronologique des Ambassadeurs" (in French). Embassy of France in Brussels. Retrieved 20 January 2013. Also available in Dutch.
  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. 42. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  3. ^ Count Guillaume de Garden (1861). Répertoire diplomatique: annales du droit des gens et de la politique extérieure (in French). J. Claye. pp. 45–46 (2nd volume).
  4. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) (1887). "X: Ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, etc de France à l'étranger de 1815 à 1855". Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République Française (in French). Vol. 9. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale. p. 321.
  5. ^ Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. Bruylant. 1834. p. 214. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  6. ^ Nothomb, Jean-Baptiste (1876). "(Footnote from the 4th edition)". Essai historique & politique sur la révolution belge (in French). Librairie européenne C. Muquardt. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  7. ^ a b Désiré François Joseph de Garcia de la Vega (1857). Guide pratique des agents du Ministère des affaires étrangères de Belgique (in French). Auguste Decq. p. 236. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  8. ^ "List of ambassadors of France to Belgium", in Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (1789-1891), Bourloton, Paris, 1889 Edition details Wikisource