List of ambassadors of France to England

This is a list of French ambassadors to England. Note that during much of this period there was no set ambassador, with frequent periods of lagging relations.^[1]

French diplomats to the Kingdom of England

Image	From	Until	Ambassadors
	1526	1535	Charles de Solier, comte de Morette[2]
	1535	1537	Antoine de Castelnau[3]
	1537	1538	Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon[4]
	1538	1543	Charles de Marillac[5]
	1543	1546	Aymar Chaste[6]
	1546	1548	Odet de Selve[7]
	1553	1556	Antoine de Noailles, 1st comte de Noailles[8]
	1556	1557	François de Noailles[8]
	1558	1559	Gilles de Noailles[a][8]
	1560	1562	Michel de Sèvre[b][8]
	1562	1566	Paul de Foix de Carmain[9]
	1566	1568	Jacques Bochetel de la Forest[8]
	1568	1574	Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon[8]
	1574	1584	Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissiére[8]
	1585	1589	Guillaume de l'Aubespine de Châteauneuf[8]
	1589	1592	Aymar Chaste[c][10]
	1602	1605	Christophe de Harlay, Count of Beaumont[8]
	1606	1613	Antoine Lefèvre de la Boderie[8]
	1611	1615	Samuel Spifame, Sieur des Bisseaux[11]
	1615	1618	Gaspard Dauvet, Sieur des Marets[11]
	1618	1621	Honoré d'Albret de Cadenet[12]
	1625	1625	Jean de Varigniez, Sieur de Blainville[13]
	1626	1627	François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France[13]
	1629	1630	Charles de L'Aubespine, Marquis of Châteauneuf[13]
	1630	1633	François du Val de Fontenay-Mareuil, Marquis of Fontenay Mareuil[13]
	1633	1635	Jean d'Angennes, Marquis de Poygni[13]
	1635	1637	Henri I de Saint-Nectaire
	1637	1640	Pompone de Bellièvre
	1640	1641	Jean de Montereul[13]
	1641	1643	Jacques d'Estampes de La Ferté-Imbert
	1645	1650	Jean de Montereul[13]
	1652	1660	Antoine de Bordeaux, seigneur de Neufville[13]
	1661	1662	Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades[13]
	1662	1665	François de Comminges[13]
	1665	1668	Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Verneuil[13]
	1668	1674	Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy[d][13]
	1674	1677	Henri de Massue, 1st Marquis de Rouvigny[13]
	1677	1688	Paul Barillon[13]

See also

• List of ambassadors of France to the Kingdom of Great Britain
• List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom

Notes

1. As French agent.
2. As Ambassador Extraordinary.
3. Due to the War of the Three Henrys and "the disputed succession after the assassination of King Henry III in 1589 it is difficult to follow exactly the French Resident Amabassadors in England from this date onwards."^[8]
4. M. Colbert initially served only as a spy, since M. Rouvigny was not trusted by the French court; hence the overlap.