List of ambassadors of France to Greece
Appearance
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) |
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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[who?] (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[who?] (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[who?] (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] |
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?? | 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 | 2015 | Jean-Loup Kuhn-Delforge |
2015 | 2019 | Christophe Chantepy |
See also
References
- ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) (1906). "XII". Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République française. Paris Imprimerie Nationale. OCLC 7087084. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs" (in French). French Embassy in Athens. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ S. P. Phocas-Cosmetatos (1970). Dossiers secrets de la Triple entente: Grèce, 1914-1922 (in French). Nouvelles Éditions latines. p. 135.
- ^ From January 1917, French representative towards the Provisional Government of National Defence in Salonica
- ^ 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). Vol. 120. pp. 83–99. doi:10.3406/bch.1996.4589. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- ^ Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Karel Kramář, sk:Vratislav Doubek, Korespondence T.G. Masaryk-Karel Kramář, Masarykův ústav AV ČR, 2005, S. 493
- ^ "Un mouvement diplomatique". Journal des Débats (in French). 29 May 1940. ISSN 1770-619X. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
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- ^ "Jean Helleu". Senate. Retrieved 4 September 2014.