This list of ambassadors of France to Germany and precursors of the modern German state also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title.

Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire

* 1630–1633:

François Leclerc du Tremblay François Leclerc du Tremblay (4 November 1577 – 17 December 1638), also known as Père Joseph, was a French Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He was the original ''éminence grise''� ...

* 1653–1654: François Cazet de Vautorte * 1658–1674: Robert de Gravel * 1679–1688:

Louis de Verjus Louis may refer to: People * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer Other uses * Louis (coin), a French coin * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also * ...

* 1716–1723: Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy * 1726–1730:

Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny Théodore is the French version of the masculine given name Theodore. Given name * Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (1798–1871), French landscape painter and engraver * Théodore Anne (1892–1917), French playwright, librettist, and novelist * Théo ...

* 1741–1742: Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle * 1763–1772:

Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay (; 2 March 1732, Tortisambert near Livarot – 18 September 1787, Nançay) was an 18th-century French playwright, historian and political writer. Born in a noble family of Normandy, Du Buat-Nançay began his diplomati ...

* 1775–1780: Marc Marie de Bombelles * 1797–1799: Théobald Bacher

Ambassadors to the German Confederation

Ambassadors to the

German Confederation The German Confederation ( ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved ...

, also accredited to the

Free City of Frankfurt Frankfurt was a major city of the Holy Roman Empire, being the seat of imperial elections since 885 and the city for Coronation of the Holy Roman emperor, imperial coronations from 1562 (previously in Free Imperial City of Aachen) until 1792. F ...

, include: * 1818–1830:

Charles-Frédéric Reinhard Charles-Frédéric, '' comte'' Reinhard (born Karl Friedrich Reinhard; 2 October 1761 – 25 December 1837) was a Württembergian-born French diplomat, essayist, and politician who briefly served as the Consulate's Minister of Foreign Affairs i ...

(1761–1837) * 1830–1839: Jean Baptiste de Alleye de Ciprey (1784-184?) * 1840–1842: Antoine Louis Deffaudis (1786–1869) * 1842–1847: Justin de Chasseloup-Laubat (1800–1847) * 1848–1855: Auguste Bonaventure de Tallenay (1795–1863) * 1855–1858: Gustave de Montessuy * 1858–1864: Alfred de Salignac-Fénelon (1810–1883) * 1864–1866: Edmé de Reculot (1815–1891) For partial lists, see footnote and.

Ambassadors to German states

France established permanent diplomatic missions to individual German states during the Thirty Years War or shortly thereafter, most notably

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

Prussia Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

and the free

Hanseatic cities The Hanseatic League was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe, Northern Europe. Growing from a few Northern Germany, North German towns in the ...

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

, all of which date from a time around the 1620s to 1640s. At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in southern Germany. In earlier times it was considered to be on both sides of the Upper Rhine, but since the Napoleonic Wars, it has been considered only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Ba ...

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

Hesse-Kassel The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (), spelled Hesse-Cassel during its entire existence, also known as the Hessian Palatinate (), was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. The state was created in 1567 when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided upon t ...

Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt () was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse among the four sons of Landgrave Philip I. ...

, Nassau and

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, two other histo ...

. After disestablishment of the German Confederation and establishment of the North-German Confederation, France's mission at Berlin became France's principal mission to Germany.

Ambassadors to the German Empire and Germany (1871–1939)

For main sources for this section, see footnote and.

Ambassadors to West Germany

For main sources for this section, see footnote and. Also availabl
in German
Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

in 1949 and with

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

in 1973.

Ambassadors to East Germany

For the main source for this section, see footnote and. Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with

in 1949 and with

in 1973.

Ambassadors to post-reunification Germany

For main sources for this section, see footnote and.

References

{{Lists of heads of French diplomatic missions

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Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...