# List of ambassadors of France to the United States

The French ambassador to the United States is the diplomatic representation of the French Republic to the United States. They reside in Washington, D.C. The current ambassador is Laurent Bili.

## Heads of mission
### Ancien Regime (before 1792)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1778 | 1779 | Conrad-Alexandre Gérard |
| 1779 | 1784 | Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne |
| 1784 | 1785 | François Barbé-Marbois |
| 1785 | 1787 | Louis-Guillaume Otto |
| 1787 | 1789 | Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier |
| 1791 | 1793 | Chevalier Jean Baptiste Ternant |

### First French Republic

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1793 | 1794 | Edmond-Charles Genêt |
| 1794 | 1795 | Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet |
| 1795 | 1796 | Pierre Auguste Adet |
| 1796 | 1800 | Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit |
| 1800 | 1800 | Joseph Bonaparte |
| | | Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu |
| | | Pierre Louis Roederer |
| 1801 | 1804 | Louis-André Pichon |

### First French Empire (1804–15)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1804 | 1804 | Felix Beaujour |
| 1804 | 1811 | General Louis Marie Turreau of Garambouville |
| 1811 | 1815 | Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier |

### Kingdom of France (1815–48)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1815 | 1821 | Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville |
| 1821 | 1824 | Jacques de Menou |
| 1824 | 1830 | Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil |
| 1830 | 1831 | Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux Rochelle |
| 1831 | 1835 | Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier |
| 1835 | 1837 | Alphonse Pageot |
| 1837 | 1838 | Charles Edward Pontois |
| 1838 | 1841 | Alphonse Pageot |
| 1841 | 1846 | Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt [fr] |
| 1843 | 1849 | Alphonse Pageot |

### Second French Republic (1848–52)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1848 | 1849 | Guillaume-Tell de La Vallée Poussin |
| 1849 | 1850 | Charles Alphonse de Sain de Bois-le-Comte |
| 1851 | 1860 | Count Eugène de Sartiges |

### Second French Empire (1852–70)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1851 | 1860 | Count Eugène de Sartiges |
| 1860 | 1864 | Henri Mercier |
| 1864 | 1866 | Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville |
| 1866 | 1870 | Jules Berthemy |
| 1870 | 1870 | Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol |
| 1870 | 1870 | Jules Berthemy |

### Third French Republic (1870–1940)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1870 | 1870 | Jules Treillard |
| 1871 | 1871 | Henry de Bellonnet |
| 1872 | 1873 | Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles |
| 1873 | 1877 | Amédée Bartholdi |
| 1877 | 1882 | Georges Maxime Outrey |
| 1882 | 1891 | Théodore Roustan |
| 1891 | 1897 | Jules Patenôtre des Noyers |
| 1897 | 1902 | Jules Cambon |
| 1902 | 1924 | Jean Jules Jusserand |
| 1924 | 1925 | Emile Daeschner |
| 1925 | 1926 | Henry Bérenger |
| 1926 | 1933 | Paul Claudel |
| 1933 | 1937 | André Lefebvre de La Boulaye |
| 1937 | 1938 | Georges Bonnet |
| 1938 | 1940 | René Doynel de Saint-Quentin |
| 1940 | 1942 | Gaston Henry-Haye |
| 1941 | 1942 | Adrien Tixier |
| 1943 | 1943 | Henri Hoppenot |
| 1944 | 1954 | Henri Bonnet |

### Fourth French Republic (1946–58)

| From | Until | Ambassadors |
| 1944 | 1954 | Henri Bonnet |
| 1954 | 1956 | Maurice Couve de Murville |
| 1956 | 1965 | Hervé Alphand |

### Fifth French Republic (1958–2025)

| From | Until | Ambassadors | President of France |
| 1956 | 1965 | Hervé Alphand | Charles de Gaulle |
| 1965 | 1972 | Charles Lucet | Charles de Gaulle] Georges Pompidou |
| 1972 | 1977 | Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet | Georges Pompidou Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| 1977 | 1981 | François Lefebvre de Laboulaye | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| 1981 | 1984 | Bernard Vernier-Palliez | François Mitterrand |
| 1984 | 1989 | Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie | François Mitterrand |
| 1989 | 1995 | Jacques Andreani | Jacques Chirac |
| 1995 | 2002 | François Bujon de l'Estang | Jacques Chirac |
| 2002 | 2007 | Jean-David Levitte | Jacques Chirac |
| 2007 | 2010 | Pierre Vimont | Nicolas Sarkozy |
| 2011 | 2014 | François Delattre | Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande |
| 2014 | 2019 | Gérard Araud | François Hollande Emmanuel Macron |
| 2019 | 2023 | Philippe Étienne | Emmanuel Macron |
| 2023 | 2025 | Laurent Bili | Emmanuel Macron |