List of ambassadors of France to the Ottoman Empire
France had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered to have been the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey.
List of ambassadors[]
Under the Ancien Régime[]
- Ambassadors of Ancien Régime France. Embassy established in Constantinople.[1][2]
The first ambassador was preceded by an envoy: Jean Frangipani.
- Jean de la Forét 1535–1538
- Antoine de Rincon 1538–1541
- Antoine Escalin des Eymars 1541–1547
- Gabriel de Luetz d'Aramont 1547–1553
- Michel de Codignac 1553–1556
- Jean Cavenac de la Vigne 1556–1566
- Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie 1566–1571
- François de Noailles 1571–1575
- Gilles de Noailles 1575–1579
- Jacques de Germigny 1579–1585
- Jacques Savary de Lancosme 1585–1589
- François Savary de Brèves 1589–1607
- 1607–1611
- Achille de Harlay 1611–1620
- 1620–1631
- 1631–1639
- 1639–1665
- 1665–1670
- Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel 1670–1679
- Gabriel de Guilleragues 1679–1686
- 1686–1689
- 1689–1692
- Charles de Ferriol 1692–1711
- 1711–1716
- Jean-Louis d'Usson 1716
- 1724–1728
- Louis Sauveur Villeneuve 1728–1741
- 1741–1747
- 1747–1755
- Charles Gravier de Vergennes 1755–1768
- François Emmanuel Guignard 1768–1784
- Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier 1784–1792
French Revolution and First French Empire[]
- Ambassadors under the French Revolution and First French Empire.[1]
- Charles Louis Huguet 1792–1796 – in name only
- Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1795 -1797)
- Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet 1796–1802
- Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune 1802–1806
- Horace François Sébastiani 1806–1812
- Antoine François Andréossy 1812–1815
1815–1914[]
- Ambassadors under the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic, Second Empire and Third Republic.[1]
- Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière 1815–1821
- 1821–1823
- Armand Charles Guilleminot 1823–1832
- Albin Reine Roussin 1832–1839
- 1839–1841
- 1844–1851
- Charles La Valette 1851–1853
- 1853-1853
- Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers 1853–1855
- Edouard Antoine de Thouvenel 1855–1860
- Charles La Valette 1860–1861
- Lionel Désiré Marie François René Moustiers 1861–1866
- 1866–1870
- Louis Dubreuil-Héliou La Gueronnière 1870–1871
- Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé 1871–1875
- 1875–1877
- 1877–1880
- 1880–1882
- Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles 1882–1886
- 1886–1891
- Paul Cambon 1891–1898
- Jean Antoine Ernest Constans 1898–1909
- Maurice Bompard 1909–1914
See also[]
- Franco-Ottoman alliance
- French Ambassador to Turkey (1925–present)
References[]
- ^ a b c (in French) Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs depuis 1525, at the French embassy in Turkey; retrieved April 1, 2009
- ^ A full list of ambassadors and ministers under the Ancien Régime is in François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, Charles Henri Auguste Schefer, Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et sur le commerce des français dans le Levant, Paris, 1877, p. 179.
External links[]
Categories:
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