List of French ambassadors to the Holy See
This incomplete list of French ambassadors to the Holy See since the Middle Ages includes all regimes from the Kingdom of France to the current French Republic:
Ambassadors from the Kingdom of France
- 1491-1499: Jean de Bilhères
- 1547-1550: Claude d'Urfé
- 1564-1566: Henri Cleutin
- 1568-1570: Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet
- 1601-1605: Philippe de Béthune
- 1608-1614: François Savary de Brèves
- 1622-1624: Noël Brûlart de Sillery
- 1624-1630: Philippe de Béthune (2nd term)
- 1633-1634: Jean de Galard de Béarn
- 1635-1636: Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu
- 1636-1648: François Annibal d'Estrées
- 1648-1649: Michele Mazzarino
- 1651-1654: Henri d'Estampes de Valencay
- 1654-1659?: Hugues de Lionne
- 1662-1665: Charles III de Créquy
- 1667-1670?: Charles d'Albert d'Ailly
- 1671-1687: François Annibal II d'Estrées
- 1687-1689: Henri-Charles de Beaumanoir of Lavardin
- 1689-1691: Charles d'Albert d'Ailly (2nd term)
- 1698-1700: Cardinal de Bouillon
- 1700-1701: Louis I, Prince of Monaco, died in office
- 1701-1706: Toussaint de Forbin-Janson
- 1706-1720: Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille
- 1715-1715?: Michel Amelot de Gournay
- 1721-1724: Pierre Guérin de Tencin
- 1724-1731: Melchior de Polignac
- 1731-1740: Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan
- 1742-1744: Claude-François de Montboissier de Canillac de Beaufort
- 1745-1747: Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld
- 1748-1752: Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini
- 1753-1757: Étienne François, count of Stainville, later duc de Choiseul
- 1758-1762: Henri Joseph Bouchard d'Esparbès de Lussan d'Aubeterre
- 1769-1791: François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
Officially recalled in 1791, Bernis was not replaced due to the French Revolution
Ambassadors 1789-1945
- 1793?-1797?: François Cacault, envoy to the Pope
- 1797: Joseph Bonaparte
- 1801-1803: François Cacault (second appointment)
- 1803-1806: Joseph Fesch
- 1806: Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny
Rome was annexed to the French Empire between 1806-1814
- 1814-1816: Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny
- 1816-1822?: Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas
- 1822-1828: Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency-Laval
- 1828-1829: François-René de Chateaubriand, the famous Romantic poet
- 1829-1830: Auguste, comte de La Ferronays
- 1832-1841: Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire
- 1845-1848: Pellegrino Rossi
- 1849: Francisque de Corcelle
- 1850-1857: Alphonse de Rayneval
- 1857-1861: Agénor de Gramont
- 1861-1862: Charles, marquis de La Valette
- 1862-1863: Godefroi, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais
- 1864-1868: Eugène de Sartiges
- 1868-1871: Marquis de Banneville[1]
Third Republic
- 1870-1871: Édouard Lefebvre de Béhaine, chargé d'affaires
- 1871-1873: Count Bernard d'Harcourt
- 1873-1876: Francisque de Corcelle (second appointment)
- 1876-1878: Georges Napoléon Baude
- 1878-1880: Joseph de Cadoine de Gabriac
- 1880-1882: Ferdinand Henry de Navenne
- 1882-1896: Édouard Lefebvre de Béhaine (was chargé d'affaires in 1870)
- 1896-1898: Eugène Poubelle
- 1899?-1904: Armand Nisard
Diplomatic relations were broken from 1904-1921 due to the French separation of Church and State
- 1920: Gabriel Hanotaux, extraordinary embassy for the canonization of Joan of Arc
- 1921-1923: Charles Jonnart
- 1932-1940: François Charles-Roux
- 1940: Wladimir d'Ormesson
Vichy France
- 1940-1944: Léon Bérard
- François de Vial, attaché
Ambassadors since 1945
Provisional Government
- 1945-1948: Jacques Maritain
Fourth Republic
- 1948-1956: Wladimir d'Ormesson (second appointment)
- 1956-1959: Roland de Margerie
Fifth Republic
- 1959-1964: Guy de la Tournelle
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- 1983-1985: Xavier de La Chevalerie
- 1985-1988: Bertrand Dufourcq
- 1988-1991: Jean-Bernard Raimond
- 1991-1993: René Ala
- 1993-1995: Alain Pierret
- 1995-1998: Jean-Louis Lucet
- 1998-2000: Jean Guéguinou
- 2000-2001: Alain Dejammet
- 2001-2005: Pierre Morel
- 2005-2007: Bernard Kessedjian
- 2009-2012: Stanislas de Laboulaye
- 2012-2015: Bruno Joubert
- 2016-2018: Philippe Zeller
- 2019-present: Élisabeth Beton-Delègue
References
- ^ McElrath, Damian (1970). Lord Acton. The decisive decade 1864-1874. Essays and documents. Louvain, Bureaux de la R.H.E., Bibliothèque de l'Université [&] Publications Universitaires de Louvain. p. 146.
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