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List of ambassadors of Belgium to France

{{Short description|List of Belgian Ambassadors to France}}

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This is a list of ambassadors from Belgium to France, who head the Embassy of Belgium, Paris. Formally, they are the Ambassador of His Majesty the King of the Belgians to the French government.

History

Apart from Prince Eugène de Ligne, who was Ambassador from 1842 to 1848, the diplomatic representatives of Belgium bore the title of "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" until 15 July 1919, when the post was elevated to an Ambassadorship.

The embassy is located at the Hôtel de La Marck, a private mansion at 25, rue de Surène in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.{{cite book |last1=Library of Congress Office for Subject Cataloging Policy |title=A-E Subject Headings |date=1990 |publisher=Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress |page=1344 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_E/Q533JS0Pi-oC&pg=PA1344 |access-date=13 June 2024 |language=en}}

Heads of Mission

=Minister Plenipotentiary (1831–1919) =

class="wikitable"

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Appointment

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Departure

! align=center valign=bottom width="20%" | Ambassador

! valign=bottom width="10%"| King

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Sent to

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1831

| 1842

| Charles Le Hon

| Leopold I

| Louis Philippe I

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Count{{cite book |last1=de la Vaillée |first1=Alexandre Paternotte |title=L'Hôtel de la Marck : Ambassade de Belgique |date=1981 |isbn=978-2-70130-468-7 |page=101-110 |publisher=Berger-Levrault |url=https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9782701304687.pdf |access-date=13 June 2024}}

1842

| 1848

| Eugène de Ligne

| Leopold I

| Louis Philippe I

| Ambassador Extraordinary. Prince{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}}

1848

| 1864

| Firmin Rogier

| Leopold I

| Louis Philippe I

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}}

1864

| 1894

| Eugène Beyens

| Leopold I

| Napoléon III

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Baron{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}}

1894

| 1903

| Auguste d'Anethan

| Leopold II

| Émile Loubet

|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}} Knight

1904

| 1910

| Alfred Leghait{{cite web |title=Nécrologie {{!}} La Temps |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k242882w |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=Gallica |access-date=13 June 2024 |language=FR |date=17 April 1917}}

| Leopold II

| Armand Fallières

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}} Baron

1910

| 1916

| Paul Guillaume{{harvsp|Bitsch|1994}}{{cite book |last1=Bitsch |first1=Marie-Thérèse |title=La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne, 1905-1914 |date=1994 |publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne |isbn=978-2-85944-239-2 |page=574 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5QLcaWYYN8C&pg=PA255 |access-date=13 June 2024 |language=fr}}

| Albert I

| Armand Fallières

| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}} Baron

=Ambassadors (since 1919)=

class="wikitable"

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Appointment

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Departure

! align=center valign=bottom width="20%" | Ambassador

! valign=bottom width="10%"| King

! align=center valign=bottom width="10%" | Sent to

! align=center valign=bottom width="30%" | Note3

1916

| 1935

| Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy

| Albert I

| Raymond Poincaré

| Director General of Politics from 1912 to 1916.{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}} Baron

1935

| 1938

| André de Kerchove de Denterghem

| Leopold III

| Léon Blum

| Count{{Sfn|Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée|1981|p=101-102}}

1938

| 1941

| Pol Le Tellier

| Leopold III

| Albert Lebrun

|

1944

| 1959

| Jules Guillaume

| Prince Charles

| Charles de Gaulle

| Baron

1959

| 1966{{cite book |last1=Wellens |first1=Robert |title=Inventaire des Papiers de Marcel-Henri Jaspar, député, ministre et ambassadeur de Belgique |date=1982 |location=Brussels |url=https://search.arch.be/fr/?option=com_rab_findingaids&view=findingaid&format=pdf&eadid=BE-A0510_000418_002755_FRE |access-date=13 June 2024}}

| Marcel-Henri Jaspar

| Baudouin

| Charles de Gaulle

|

1966

| 1973

| Robert Rothschild

| Baudouin

| Georges Pompidou

| Baron

1973

| 1976

| Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem

| Baudouin

| Georges Pompidou

| Count

1976

| 1979

| Werner de Merode

| Baudouin

| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

| Prince

1979

| 1984

| Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée

| Baudouin

| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

| Baron

1985

| 1986

| Eugène Rittweger de Moor

| Baudouin

| François Mitterrand

| Baron

1986

| 1989

| Luc Smolderen

| Baudouin

| François Mitterrand

|

1989

| 1996

| Alfred Cahen

| Baudouin

| François Mitterrand

|

1996

| 2001

| Alain Rens

| Albert II

| Jacques Chirac

|

2001

| 2005[http://www.lesbiographies.com/Biographie/CHAMPENOIS-Pierre-Etienne,139109 Éléments biographiques de Pierre-Étienne Champenois]. Détails sur abonnement.

| Pierre-Étienne Champenois

| Albert II

| Jacques Chirac

|

2005

| 2007

| Pierre-Dominique Schmidt

| Albert II

| Jacques Chirac

| Recalled following alleged embezzlement{{cite news |title=Financial scandal forces Belgium to pull the plug on 'disco |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/financial-scandal-forces-belgium-to-pull-the-plug-on-disco-ambassador-463696.html |access-date=13 June 2024 |work=The Independent |date=30 August 2007 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Two - year suspended sentence for the former Belgian ambassador to Paris |url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/29336/two-year-suspended-sentence-for-the-former-belgian-ambassador-to-paris |access-date=13 June 2024 |work=The Brussels Times |date=10 September 2014 |language=en}}

2007{{cite news |title=Baudouin de la Kethulle probable futur ambassadeur à Paris |url=http://www.lalibre.be/actu/international/article/367847/baudouin-de-la-kethulle-probable-futur-ambassadeur-a-paris.html |access-date=13 June 2024 |work=La Libre Belgique |date=3 September 2007 |language=fr}}

| 2010

| Baudouin de la Kethulle de Ryhove

| Albert II

| Nicolas Sarkozy

| Knight

2010

| 2015

| Patrick Vercauteren Drubbel

| Albert II

| Nicolas Sarkozy

|

2015

| 2018

| Vincent Mertens de Wilmars

| Philippe

| François Hollande

|

2018

| 2023

| François de Kerchove d'Exaerde

| Philippe

| Emmanuel Macron

|

2023

|

| Jo Indekeu{{cite news |title=Le nouvel ambassadeur belge en France est connu |url=https://www.lesoir.be/521910/article/2023-06-26/le-nouvel-ambassadeur-belge-en-france-est-connu |access-date=13 June 2024 |work=Le Soir |date=26 June 2023 |language=fr}}

| Philippe{{cite web |title=La Belgique en France |url=http://france.diplomatie.belgium.be/fr |website=france.diplomatie.belgium.be |publisher=SPF Affaires étrangères - Commerce extérieur et Coopération au Développement |access-date=13 June 2024 |language=fr}}

| Emmanuel Macron

|

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book |language=fr |author=Alexandre Paternotte de la Vaillée |title=L'Hôtel de la Marck: Ambassade de Belgique |year=1981 |publisher=Berger-Levrault |isbn=978-2-70130-468-7 }}

External links

  • [http://france.diplomatie.belgium.be/en Website of the Belgian Embassy to France]

{{Lists of heads of Belgian diplomatic missions}}

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