1. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754)

French Diplomat

An esteemed French diplomat known as Talleyrand. Despite being distrusted by many he was kept around through the regime of Louis XVI, several governments of the French Revolution and then...

2. Paul Claudel (1868)

French Diplomat

French poet, playwright, and diplomat known for such long, free-verse plays as Le Partage de Midi. He became a member of the prestigious Academie Francaise in 1946.

3. Roland Dumas (1922)

French Diplomat

Roland Dumas is a lawyer and French Socialist politician who served notably as Foreign Minister under President François Mitterrand from 1984 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1993. He was...

4. Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769)

French Diplomat

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne French diplomat was born at Sens. He was educated at the military school of Brienne in Champagne along with Napoleon Bonaparte; and although the solitary...

5. Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810)

French Diplomat

Alexandre Florian Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski was a Polish and French politician and diplomat. He was widely rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Napoleon I by his mistress Countess Marie...

6. Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil (1769)

French Diplomat

Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil was a French diplomat and French ambassador to the United States from 1824 to 1830.

7. Georges Bonnet (1889)

French Diplomat

Not to be confused with the French Socialist Georges MonnetGeorges-Étienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical Party.

8. François Cacault (1743)

French Diplomat

çois Cacault was a French diplomat of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

9. Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805)

French Diplomat

Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys was a French statesman and diplomat born at Melun in the department of Seine et Marne. He was educated at the College of Louis-le-Grande. The scion...

10. Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1730)

French Diplomat

Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier baron de Breteuil baron de Preuilly was a French aristocrat diplomat statesman and politician. He was the last Prime Minister of the Bourbon Monarchy appointed...

11. François Savary de Brèves (1560)

French Diplomat

çois Savary de Brèves was a French ambassador of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as an Orientalist.

12. Jacques Huntzinger (1943)

French Diplomat

Jacques Gabriel Huntzinger is a former French ambassador to Israel Estonia and Macedonia and has served as an ambassador at large for the Mediterranean Union and the Task Force for...

13. Gérard Errera (1943)

French Diplomat

Gérard Paul Errera is a French diplomat and serves as an advisor to a number of American Chinese and French international firms.

14. Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier (1775)

French Diplomat

Louis Charles Barbe Serurier was a French diplomat and French Consul General from 1811 to 1815 and envoy from 1831 to 1835 to the United States.

15. Said Mohamed Cheikh (1904)

French Diplomat

Said Mohamed Cheikh was the head of the Government of Comoros from 1962 until his death in 1970. Cheikh served in the French National Assembly from 1946–1962 and He was...

16. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (1953)

French Diplomat

Maurice Gourdault-Montagne CMG CVO is a career diplomat and the current French Ambassador to Germany.

17. Jean d'Estrées (1666)

French Diplomat

Jean d'Estrées was a French priest and politician. He was the son of Jean II d'Estrées and his wife Marie Marguerite Morin. He was born in Paris the nephew of...

18. Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet (1761)

French Diplomat

Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet was a French diplomat and French ambassador to the United States. He studied law. When the French Revolution broke out he published pamphlets in praise of...

19. Jean-Maurice Ripert (1953)

French Diplomat

Jean-Maurice Ripert is a French diplomat. Since 2011 he has been the ambassador of the European Union to Turkey. From 2009 to 2011 Ripert was the UN's Special Envoy for...

20. Daniel Jouanneau (1946)

French Diplomat

Daniel Jouanneau is a French diplomat and statesman. He is the former French Ambassador to Pakistan Ambassador to Canada Ambassador to Lebanon and Ambassador to Mozambique Lesotho and Swaziland.

21. Alain Le Roy (1953)

French Diplomat

Alain Roland Le Roy is a French diplomat and until 2011 served as Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations. He was appointed to the position in June 2008...

22. André François-Poncet (1887)

French Diplomat

André François-Poncet was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist...

23. François Dominique de Barberie de Saint-Contest (1701)

French Diplomat

çois Dominique de Barberie de Saint-Contest was a French Foreign Minister. Born into an old Norman family that had helped keep the city of Caen allied to Louis XIII in...

24. Nicolas Joseph Maison (1771)

French Diplomat

Nicolas Joseph Maison 1er Marquis Maison was a Marshal of France and Minister of War.

25. Maurice Couve de Murville (1907)

French Diplomat

Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency...

26. Bruno de Leusse (1916)

French Diplomat

Baron Bruno de Leusse de Syon was a French high-ranking government official politician and diplomat. He was one of the negotiators of the Évian Accords. He was the French Ambassador...

27. Alexandre Parodi (1901)

French Diplomat

Alexandre Parodi was a French diplomat and the first ambassador of France to the United Nations.

28. Éric Falt (1962)

French Diplomat

Éric Falt is a French senior official at the United Nations. Since September 2010 he has served as Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information at the United Nations...

29. Benjamin Jaurès (1823)

French Diplomat

Constant Louis Jean Benjamin Jaurès was a 19th-century French admiral and senator who was active in Japan during the Bombardment of Shimonoseki and the Boshin war. He became Minister of...

30. Bernard Kouchner (1939)

French Diplomat

Bernard Kouchner is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010 he was the French Minister of...

31. Christophe Bigot (1965)

French Diplomat

Christophe Bigot in Neuilly-sur-Seine France is the current French ambassador to Israel. He is fluent in English German and French.

32. Patrick Leclercq (1938)

French Diplomat

Patrick André Leclercq was the Minister of State of Monaco. He was appointed on 5 January 2000 replacing Michel Lévêque. He had previously served as France's consul / ambassador to...

33. Jean-Bernard Raimond (1926)

French Diplomat

Jean-Bernard Raimond is a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988 as French ambassador to a number of states...

34. Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet (1727)

French Diplomat

Louis Marie Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt duke of Châtelet was a French army officer nobleman and diplomat. He served as governor of Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy. He was guillotined in 1793...

35. Catherine Colonna (1956)

French Diplomat

Catherine Colonna is a French diplomat and political figure born on April 16 1956 in Saint-Symphorien.

36. Jean-Christophe Potton (1960)

French Diplomat

Jean-Christophe Potton is a French diplomat. He studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris Panthéon-Assas University and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. Since November 2009 he is the French ambassador...

37. Paul François de Quelen de la Vauguyon (1746)

French Diplomat

Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon or Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade duc de La Vauguyon was a French nobleman. He was governor of Cognac after...

38. Theobald Piscatory (1800)

French Diplomat

Théobald Émile Arcambal-Piscatory was a French statesman and diplomat.

39. Jacques Lauriston (1768)

French Diplomat

Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law marquis de Lauriston was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent and a general officer in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars. He was...

40. Louis Lépine (1846)

French Diplomat

Louis Jean-Baptiste Lépine was an eminent lawyer politician and inventor who was prefect of police for Paris from 1893 to 1897 and again from 1899 to 1913. He earned the...

41. Louis Napoléon Lannes (Unknow)

French Diplomat

Louis Napoléon Auguste Lannes 2nd duc de Montebello ) was a French diplomat and politician.

42. Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1778)

French Diplomat

Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire was a French politician.

43. Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune (1763)

French Diplomat

Guillaume Marie Anne Brune 1st Comte Brune was a French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France.

44. Gaston Palewski (1901)

French Diplomat

Gaston Palewski French politician was a close associate of Charles de Gaulle during and after World War II. He is also remembered as the lover of the English novelist Nancy...

45. Léon Roches (1809)

French Diplomat

Léon Roches was a representative of the French government in Japan from 1864 to 1868. Léon Roches was a student at the Lycée de Tournon in Grenoble and followed an...

46. Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752)

French Diplomat

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier was a member of the Académie française and the Choiseul-Gouffier family French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and...

47. Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet (1759)

French Diplomat

Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet was a French General and politician during the period of the French Revolution. Aubert du Bayet was born in Baton-Rouge in the French American colony...

48. Jean-Baptiste Estelle (1662)

French Diplomat

Jean-Baptiste Estelle was French Consul in the Moroccan city of Salé in 1689-98. He was the son of Pierre Estelle Consul at Tetuan. He succeeded Jean Perillier as consul at...

49. Edmond-Charles Genêt (1763)

French Diplomat

Edmond-Charles Genêt also known as Citizen Genêt was the French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.

50. Joseph Louis Anne Avenol (1879)

French Diplomat

Joseph Louis Anne Avenol was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations from July 3 1933 to August 31 1940.