# List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

This is the List of ambassadors from France to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, operating from the Embassy of France, London:

## Embassy of France, London

The embassy of France in London is located just off Knightsbridge at Albert Gate, one of the entrances to Hyde Park, directly opposite the Embassy of Kuwait. The building was designed by the British architect Thomas Cubitt. At the time of its construction in the 1840s, it was among the tallest structures in the Knightsbridge area.
France also owns various premises along the Cromwell Road, South Kensington which house its Consular, Cultural, Science & Technology and Visa sections. It also has a Trade mission at 28-29 Haymarket and a Paymaster & Financial Comptroller section at 30 Queen's Gate Terrace, South Kensington, while No. 11 Kensington Palace Gardens has been the French Ambassador's official residence since 1944.

## French Ambassadors
### French Ambassadors to the United Kingdom (1801–present)

| Image | From | Until | Ambassadors |
| | 1801 | 1802 | Louis-Guillaume Otto, comte de Mosloy (Chargé d'affaires) |
| | 1803 | 1804 | General Antoine Andréossy later comte de l'Empire |
| Napoleonic Wars (1803–1814) ||||
| | 1814 | 1815 | Louis, duc de La Chastre |
| | 1815 | 1819 | René-Eustache, marquis d'Osmond |
| | 1819 | 1819 | Victor de Faÿ, marquis de La Tour-Maubourg |
| | 1820 | 1821 | Élie, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg |
| | 1821 | 1821 | Antoine, duc de Gramont |
| | 1822 | 1823 | François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand |
| | 1823 | 1828 | Jules, prince de Polignac |
| | 1828 | 1830 | Anne-Adrien-Pierre de Montmorency, duc de Laval |
| | 1830 | 1834 | Charles, prince de Talleyrand |
| | 1830 | 1832 | Charles-Joseph Bresson, chevalier later comte de l'Empire (First Secretary, on behalf of Talleyrand) |
| | 1835 | 1840 | Horace-François-Bastien Sébastiani, comte de La Porta |
| | 1840 | 1840 | Ministre François Guizot |
| | 1841 | 1847 | Louis de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire |
| | 1847 | 1848 | Victor, duc de Broglie |
| | 1848 | 1848 | Gustave-Auguste Bonnin de La Bonninière, comte de Beaumont |
| | 1848 | 1851 | Ministre Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys |
| | 1851 | 1855 | Alexandre-Florian-Joseph Colonna, comte Walewski |
| | 1855 | 1858 | Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny |
| | 1858 | 1859 | Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, duc de Malakoff |
| | 1859 | 1860 | Jean-Gilbert-Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny |
| | 1860 | 1862 | Charles-Joseph, comte de Flahaut |
| | 1862 | 1863 | Jean-Baptiste-Louis, baron Gros |
| | 1863 | 1869 | Henri, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne |
| | 1869 | 1870 | Charles, marquis de La Valette |
| | 1871 | 1872 | Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, comte de Jarnac |
| | 1872 | 1873 | Albert, duc de Broglie |
| | 1873 | 1873 | Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanieu, duc Decazes & de Glücksbierg |
| | 1873 | 1874 | Sosthène, vicomte de La Rochefoucauld later duc de Doudeauville |
| | 1875 | 1879 | Georges, marquis d'Harcourt |
| | 1879 | 1880 | Amiral Louis-Pierre-Alexis de Pothuau |
| | 1880 | 1880 | Ministre Léon Say |
| | 1880 | 1882 | Sénateur Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour |
| | 1883 | 1893 | Dr. William Henry Waddington (Prime Minister of France, 1879) |
| | 1894 | 1898 | Alphonse Chodron, baron de Courcel |
| | 1898 | 1920 | Paul Cambon |
| | 1920 | 1924 | Auguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire |
| | 1924 | 1933 | Aimé-Benjamin de Fleuriau, comte de Bellevue |
| | 1933 | 1940 | Charles Corbin |
| World War II (1940–1944) ||||
| | 1944 | 1955 | René Massigli |
| | 1955 | 1962 | Chevalier Jean Chauvel |
| | 1962 | 1972 | Geoffroy Chodron, baron de Courcel |
| | 1972 | 1977 | Jacques Delarüe-Caron de Beaumarchais |
| | 1977 | 1981 | Jean Sauvagnargues |
| | 1981 | 1984 | Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie |
| | 1984 | 1986 | Jacques Viot |
| | 1986 | 1990 | Luc, vicomte de La Barre de Nanteuil |
| | 1990 | 1993 | Bernard Dorin |
| | 1993 | 1998 | Jean Guéguinou |
| | 1998 | 2002 | Daniel Bernard |
| | 2002 | 2007 | Gérard Errera |
| | 2007 | 2011 | Maurice Gourdault-Montagne |
| | 2011 | 2014 | Bernard Émié |
| | 2014 | 2017 | Sylvie Bermann |
| | 2017 | 2019 | Jean-Pierre Jouyet |
| | 2019 | 2022 | Catherine Colonna |
| | 2022 | Present | Hélène Tréheux-Duchêne |