Embassy of France, Belgrade

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Embassy of France, Belgrade
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Embassy of France, Belgrade
Location Belgrade, Serbia
Address11 Pariska Street
Coordinates 44°49′08″N20°26′59″E / 44.8188825°N 20.4496643°E / 44.8188825; 20.4496643
Website https://rs.ambafrance.org

The Embassy of France in Belgrade is a diplomatic mission of France in Serbia, located in the capital city Belgrade.

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The embassy is located between St. Michael's Cathedral and Kalemegdan in Belgrade, overlooking the Danube and the Sava. It hosts the Diplomatic Chancellery, a Consulate, a Military Attaché, residence of the Ambassador, Joint Management Service, the Press Service, and an Internal Security Service. [1]

The building, called "Le Nouveau Banque", on the pedestrian street Knez Mihailova, houses the French Institute of Serbia, the Service of Cooperation, the Economic Mission, and the Regional Center for the Fight Against Organized Crime in Southern Afro-Eurasia.

History =

The building was designed by French architect Roger-Henri Expert with Serbian architect Josif Najman as assistant in 1926. [2] At the time it was only the fourth purposely built French embassy, as it was usual to either rent or refurbish an existing building.[ clarification needed ] Construction lasted from 1929 to 1933, with the inauguration night being 21 December 1935. The party had 800 guests, including Milan Stojadinović, and all high ranked government officials led by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark. The building is a complete work of Art Deco, with everything from the facade, interior, furniture, and lighting in the style. [3]

Exterior

The slope of the site, on the front of two streets, where the building was constructed, represented the real challenge. The architect decided to solve this problem with the massive foundations, which work just like a fortification rather than the ground floor of a modern palace. Thus, a kind of optical fault has been achieved in an effective way. On a geometrically simply defined object that has a ground floor, two floors and a loft, the middle zone is broken down by a centrally set semicircular shape, and trapezoidal shaped wings. This is also the most expansive zone of the building. On the second floor and attic facade, there is a pyramidal cascade and facade without any decoration, and the viewer's view would be fixed to the bronze group, where the crown dominates the vision of the palace with white facade marble. The style of the building is typical of the inter-war period, modern elements with monumental classicism and refinement of the sculptures. [4] The bronze finial group at the top of building represents Liberté, égalité, fraternité is 2.80m in height and was done by sculptor Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles. He was Experts' friend, known for casting concrete sculptures in innovative way, a method of direct carving in setting concrete, with much of his work was integrated with architecture. Side wings of facade have shallow reliefs that illustrate shortened history of France through Vercingetorix, Joan de Arc, Louis XIV and Marianne. [5]

Interior

The building has five floors, the first two being assigned to the Chancery and the last three to the Residence de France. The vestibule, reached by a large white marble staircase, is decorated with five medallions representing the rivers of France. [6] The original furniture is signed Jules Leleu and Raymond Subes; unfortunately some of the purposely built furniture was either lost or returned to France during World War 2. [7]

List of ambassadors

DeAAmbassadeur
Kingdom of Serbia
19071914 Léon-Eugène-Aubin Coullard Descos  [ fr ]
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
19211922Louis Frédéric Clément-Simon
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
19331935 Paul-Émile Naggiar
19361937Robert de Dampierre
19371940 Raymond Brugère
19401940Roger Maugras
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
19441945Henry Gauquié [8]
19451950Jean Payart [9]
19501955Philippe Baudet [10]
19551955Camille Coulet [11]
19551956Jean Baelen [12]
19561962Vincent Broustra [13]
19621965Jean Binoche [14]
19651970Pierre Francfort [15]
19701977Pierre Sebilleau [16]
19771980Jacques Martin [17]
19801982Yves Pagniez [18]
19821985Jacques Dupuy [19]
19851989Dominique Charpy [20]
19891992Michel Chatelais [21]
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
19921992Alain Rouillard [22]
19961996Gabriel Keller [23] [24]
19962000Stanislas Filliol [25]
20002003Gabriel Keller [26] [27]
Serbia and Montenegro
20032007Hugues Pernet [28] [29]
Serbia
20072010Jean-François Terral [30] [31]
20102014François-Xavier Deniau [32]
20142017Christine Moro
20172017(Christophe Lecourtier)
20172019Frédéric Mondoloni
20192021Jean-Louis Falcon
2021Pierre Cochard

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References

  1. ↑ "Services – La France en Serbie". rs.ambafrance.org (in French). Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Kadijevic, Aleksandar. "Arhitekt Josif Najman (1890-1951), Moment 18, Beograd 1990, 100-106".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ "Francusko poslanstvo u Beogradu: Ambasador francuskog ukusa". Avant Art Magazin (in Serbian). 11 June 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "Zgrada francuske ambasade".
  5. ↑ "Francuska ambasada, remek-delo art dekoa".
  6. ↑ Inventaire de l'Académie d'architecture du fonds Expert, Roger-Henri.
  7. ↑ Béatrice de Rochebouët, " Paris, reine indétronable de l'Art déco ", Le Figaroscope, semaine du 16 au 22 octobre 2013, p. 4-6.
  8. ↑ Délégué du Gouvernement provisoire de la République française
  9. ↑ Ambassadeur
  10. ↑ Décret du 23 septembre 1950, Journal officiel de la République française|JORF du 23 septembre 1950.
  11. ↑ Décret du 4 janvier 1955, JORF du 5 janvier 1955 256.
  12. ↑ Décret du 25 novembre 1955, JORF du 4 décembre 195511744.
  13. ↑ Décret du 3 novembre 1956, JORF du 7 novembre 1956 10624.
  14. ↑ Décret du 31 juillet 1962, JORF du 2 août 1962 7652.
  15. ↑ Décret du 3 novembre 1965, JORF du 4 novembre 1965 9723.
  16. ↑ Décret du 16 mars 1970, JORF du 18 mars 1970 2603.
  17. ↑ Décret du 11 février 1977, JORF du 16 février 1977 934.
  18. ↑ Décret du 4 janvier 1980, JORF du 8 janvier 1980 52.
  19. ↑ Décret du 4 août 1982, JORF du 11 août 1982 2561.
  20. ↑ Décret du 30 avril 1985, JORF du 7 mai 1985 5232.
  21. ↑ Décret du 16 février 1989, JORF 18 février 1989 2326.
  22. ↑ Chargé d'affaires
  23. ↑ Chargé d'affaires puis ambassadeur
  24. ↑ Décret du 11 mars 1996, JORF No. 62 du 13 mars 1996 3887.
  25. ↑ Décret du 17 septembre 1996, JORF No. 220 du 20 septembre 1996 14000.
  26. ↑ Décret du 21 novembre 2000, JORF No. 217 du 21 novembre 2000.
  27. ↑ Ambassadeur auprès de la République fédérale de Yougoslavie.
  28. ↑ Décret du 17 septembre 2003, JORF No. 217 du 19 septembre 2003.
  29. ↑ Ambassadeur auprès de la Communauté étatique de Serbie-et-Monténégro.
  30. ↑ Décret du 4 avril 2007, JORF No. 81 du 5 avril 2007.
  31. ↑ Ambassadeur auprès de la République de Serbie.
  32. ↑ Décret du 25 août 2010, JORF No. 198 du 27 août 2010.
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