List of ambassadors of France to Belgium

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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] )
18301831 Charles Joseph, comte Bresson (special envoy)
18311832 Augustin Daniel Belliard
18321832 Auguste de Tallenay (chargé d'affaires and interim head of mission following the death of Belliard) [5] [6]
18321836 Charles Armand Septime de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg [note 3]
18361840 Louis Sérurier
18401848 Marie-Hippolyte de Gueulluy, 2nd Marquess of Rumigny (ambassador)
18481848 Louis Sérurier (chargé d'affaires)
18481848Mr. Bellocq [7]
18481852 Théodore Quinette [7]
18521852 Charles Adrien His, Comte de Butenval
18521853 Napoléon Maret, Duc de Bassano
18531858 Adolphe Barrot
18581860 Comte Gustave de Monttessuy
18601862 Baron de Talleyrand
18621863 Baron de Malaret
18631864 Théophile de Ferrière-le-Vayer
18641868 Comte de Comminges-Guitaut
18681870 Louis Étienne Arthur Dubreuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière [8]
18701870 Jules Berthémy (never took office)
18701870 Paul de Laboulaye (chargé d'affaires)
18701871 Albert Tachard
18711873 Ernest Picard
18731876 Georges-Napoléon Baude
18761878 Joseph de Cadoine, Marquis de Gabriac
18781880 Tanneguy Duchâtel
18801882 Albert Decrais
18821886 Gustave Lannes, Comte de Montebello
18861894 Albert Bourée
18941897 Charles Jean Tristan de Montholon
18971906 Auguste Gérard
19061909 Olivier Le Fèvre Comte d’Ormesson
19091911 Paul Beau
19111918 Antony Wladislas Klobukowski
19181919 Albert Defrance
19191922 Pierre de Margerie
19221929 Maurice Herbette
19291931 Emmanuel de Peretti de la Rocca
19311933 Charles Corbin
19331935 Paul Claudel
19351937 Jules Laroche
19371940 Paul Bargeton
19421944 Jean-Claude Paris (representative of the Comité national français)
19441947 Raymond Brugère
19471952 Jean de Hauteclocque
19521956 Jean Rivière
19561962 Raymond Bousquet
19621963 Francis Lacoste
19631965 Henry Spitzmuller
19651970 Étienne de Crouy-Chanel
19701973 Gontran Begougne de Juniac
19731980 Francis Hure
19801983 Roger Vaurs
19831986 Jacques Thibau
19861986 Jean Audibert
19861988 Jacques Lecompt
19881991 Xavier Marie du Cauzé de Nazelle
19911993 Alain Pierret
19931998 Jacques Bernière
19982002 Jacques Rummelhardt
20032007 Joëlle Bourgois
20072009 Dominique Boché
20092012 Michèle Boccoz
20122015 Bernard Valero
20152019 Claude-France Arnould
  1. 1 2 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.

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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. 1 2 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