• Source: 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




= Third Republic

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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

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1940-1944: Léon Bérard
François de Vial, attaché




Ambassadors since 1945






= Provisional Government

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1945-1948: Jacques Maritain




= Fourth Republic

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1948-1956: Wladimir d'Ormesson (second appointment)
1956-1959: Roland de Margerie




= Fifth Republic

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1959-1964: Guy de la Tournelle
1964-1974: René Brouillet
1974-1976: Gérard Amanrich
1976-1979: Georges Galichon
1979-1983: Louis Dauge
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

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• List of French ambassadors to the Holy See
• List of ambassadors of Belgium to the Holy See
• List of ambassadors of Russia to the Holy See
• Foreign relations of the Holy See
• List of diplomatic missions to the Holy See
• List of diplomatic missions of the Holy See
• List of ambassadors to the Philippines
• List of ambassadors of the Dominican Republic to the Holy See
• Holy See
• List of ambassadors of France to Germany