The Embassy of France in Peru (, ) represents the permanent

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Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It is located at 3415

Arequipa Avenue Arequipa Avenue (), formerly known as Leguía Avenue (), is one of the main avenues of Lima, Peru. It extends from north to south in the districts of Lima, Lince, San Isidro and Miraflores along 52 blocks. It has a bike path located along its ...

, in

San Isidro District, Lima San Isidro is an upscale Districts of Peru, district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is located in the west center of the city, it has a few meters of coastline. Officially created on April 24, 1931, San Isidro, along with Orrantia and Country ...

. The current French ambassador to Peru is Marc Giacomini.

History

Both countries in 1826 and have maintained them since. Relations were severed once during

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with the

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, with Peru instead establishing relations with

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and normalizing its relations with said government after the war, elevating the relations to embassy level. For the first half of the 20th century, the French legation was located at the Quinta Heeren. In 1973, Peru again severed diplomatic relations with France in protest of

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in the

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. The rupture lasted until 1975. In December 1996, Hyacinthe D'Montera, the embassy's cultural attaché, became one of the hundreds of initial hostages during the

Japanese embassy hostage crisis The Japanese embassy hostage crisis (, ) began on 17 December 1996 in Lima, Peru, when 14 terrorist members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took hostage hundreds of high-level diplomats, government, and military officials an ...

Residence

The official residence of the ambassador is a manor located at 302 General Portillo, also in San Isidro.

List of representatives

References

{{Ambassadors to Peru

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

France–Peru relations San Isidro District, Lima

History

Residence

List of representatives

See also

References