List of ambassadors of France to Greece

The following is a (currently) incomplete list of ambassadors of France to Greece.

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.

From	To	Ambassador or diplomat of highest rank	Notes
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  [ fr ]	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  [ fr ]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
1876	1880	Charles Tissot  [ fr ]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
1880	1880	Maurice Ternaux-Compans  [ fr ]	Interim Chargé d'Affaires
1880	1880	Baron des Michels [ who? ]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
1880	1886	Charles de Moüy  [ sv ]	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  [ fr ]	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  [ fr ] [9]
1921	1921	Jean Tripier  [ Wikidata ]	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  [ de ] [10]
		...
??	1938	Adrien-Joseph-Marie Thierry [11]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
1938	1941	Gaston Maugras  [ de ] [12]
February 1941	1941	Jean Helleu  [ fr ] [13]	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
1944	1945	Jean Baelen  [ sv ]	Representative of the Provisional Government
1945	1951	Christian Carra de Vaux de Saint-Cyr  [ de ]
1951	1955	Jean Baelen
1955	1957	Pierre Albert Charpentier  [ de ]
1957	1964	Guy de Girard de Charbonnières  [ fr ]
1964	1969	Jacques Baeyens
1969	1973	Bernard Durand  [ fr ]
1973	1975	Christian Jacquin de Margerie  [ fr ]
1975	1977	Jean-Marie Mérillon  [ de ]
1977	1980	Jacques de Folin
1980	1981	Philippe Rebeyrol
1981	1985	Dominique Charpy
1985	1987	Pierre-Louis Blanc
1987	1989	Marcel Plaisant  [ fr ]
1989	1992	Jacques Thibau
1992	1995	Jean Cadet  [ ru ]
1995	2000	Bernard Kessedjian  [ fr ]
2000	2003	Jean-Maurice Ripert
2003	2007	Bruno Delaye  [ de ]
2007	2011	Christophe Farnaud
2011	2015	Jean-Loup Kuhn-Delforge
2015	2019	Christophe Chantepy
2019	2023	Patrick Maisonnave
2023		Laurence Auer  [ fr ]

See also

• France–Greece relations

References

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3. "Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs" (in French). French Embassy in Athens. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
4. Adolphe Robert; Gaston Cougny. "Marie, Melchior, Joseph, Théodore DE LAGRENÉ (biographie)". Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (in French). National Assembly (France) . Retrieved 12 January 2013.
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7. S. P. Phocas-Cosmetatos (1970). Dossiers secrets de la Triple entente: Grèce, 1914-1922 (in French). Nouvelles Éditions latines. p. 135.
8. From January 1917, French representative towards the Provisional Government of National Defence in Salonica
9. Miranda Stavrinou (1996). "Gustave Fougères, l'École française d'Athènes et la propagande en Grèce durant les années 1917-1918". Bulletin de correspondance hellénique  [ fr ] (in French). Vol. 120. pp. 83–99. doi:10.3406/bch.1996.4589 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
10. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Karel Kramář, sk:Vratislav Doubek, Korespondence T.G. Masaryk-Karel Kramář, Masarykův ústav AV ČR, 2005, S. 493
11. "Un mouvement diplomatique". Journal des Débats (in French). 29 May 1940. ISSN   1770-619X . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
12. "La Nouvelle revue de Hongrie et ses amis français (1932-44) — la cause hongroise : Une machine à voyager dans le temps pour les catholiques et les jeunes non-conformistes". Archived from the original on 2014-09-05. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
13. "Jean Helleu". Senate . Retrieved 4 September 2014.