The Embassy of Peru in France (, ) is the foremost

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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 ...

in France. The current Peruvian ambassador to France is Rolando Javier Ruiz Rosas Cateriano, also accredited to

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since July 11, 2022.

History

Both countries established relations in 1826 and have maintained them since. During the

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, the

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notified the Peruvian legation on June 12, 1941, requesting that the embassy be closed and the personnel removed before June 10. The Peruvian government agreed to this request and moved to the

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, with only the

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remaining. The German government again notified Peru afterwards, requesting that the consulate be closed before September 1. This request was rejected by the Peruvian government, with Germany ultimately accepting that the consulate remain open. In November 1942, Peruvian and other Latin American diplomats were moved to

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by German forces, being exchanged in a

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with the United States and moved to

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or Switzerland, leading to the consulate in Paris closing, with Switzerland acting as Peru's

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instead. In 1944, after Peru severed relations with the

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and established relations with

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, the Peruvian legation in France—now based in Algiers—became known as the ''Representation of Peru before the

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'' (). The Parisian consulate only reopened after the liberation of the city, with the Peruvian envoy arriving to the

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on October 5, 1944. Three days later, the Swiss consul, Rodolphe Iselin, gifted the new property of the Parisian consulate to his Peruvian counterpart, located at Av. Pierre Premier De Serbie Nº 37. On 21 November, Peru recognised the new

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. The embassy is housed in a

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belonging to the

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since 1958. Known as Hôtel Lafont de la Vernède, it was built in 1880 by Julien Bayard for the Lafont de la Vernede family. In 1912, the hôtel was purchased by Rafael de Miero, ambassador of Uruguay to France, and was remodeled by Émile Hochereau. In 1916, Ambassador de Miero transferred the property to Peruvian diplomat Count Pablo Sixto de Mimbela, who used it as his personal residence until his death. The hôtel was purchased by the Peruvian Government in 1957. It was partially listed as a

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by order of December 21, 2004.

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France–Peru relations

History

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References

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