List of ambassadors of France to the Ottoman Empire

France had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered to have been the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey.

Under the Ancien Régime

 * Ambassadors of Ancien Régime France. Embassy established in Constantinople.

The first ambassador was preceded by an envoy: Jean Frangipani.
 * Jean de la Forét 1535–1538
 * Antonio Rincon 1538–1541
 * Antoine Escalin des Eymars 1541–1547
 * Gabriel de Luetz d'Aramont 1547–1553
 * Michel de Codignac 1553–1556
 * Jean Cavenac de la Vigne 1556–1566
 * Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie 1566–1571
 * François de Noailles 1571–1575
 * Gilles de Noailles 1575–1579
 * Jacques de Germigny 1579–1585
 * Jacques Savary de Lancosme 1585–1589
 * François Savary de Brèves 1589–1607
 * Jean-François de Gontaut-Biron 1607–1611
 * Achille de Harlay 1611–1620
 * Philippe de Harlay 1620–1631
 * Henry de Gournay 1631–1639
 * Jean de La Hay 1639–1665
 * Denis de La Haye 1665–1670
 * Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel 1670–1679
 * Gabriel de Guilleragues 1679–1686
 * Pierre de Girardin 1686–1689
 * Pierre-Antoine de Châteauneuf1689–1692
 * Charles de Ferriol 1692–1711
 * Pierre Puchot 1711–1716
 * Jean-Louis d'Usson 1716
 * Jean-Baptiste Louis Picon1724–1728
 * Louis Sauveur Villeneuve 1728–1741
 * Michel-Ange Castellane1741–1747
 * Roland Puchot 1747–1755
 * Charles Gravier de Vergennes 1755–1768
 * François Emmanuel Guignard 1768–1784
 * Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier 1784–1792

French Revolution and First French Empire

 * Ambassadors under the French Revolution and First French Empire.


 * Charles Louis Huguet 1792–1796 – in name only
 * Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (1795 -1797)
 * Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet 1796–1797
 * Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune 1802–1806
 * Horace François Sébastiani 1806–1812
 * Antoine François Andréossy 1812–1815

1815–1914

 * Ambassadors under the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic, Second Empire and Third Republic.


 * Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière 1815–1821
 * Florimond de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg 1821–1823
 * Armand Charles Guilleminot 1823–1832
 * Albin Reine Roussin 1832–1839
 * Edouard Pontois 1839–1841
 * François-Adolphe de Bourqueney 1844–1851
 * Charles La Valette 1851–1853
 * Edmond de Lacour 1853-1853
 * Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers 1853–1855
 * Edouard Antoine de Thouvenel 1855–1860
 * Charles La Valette 1860–1861
 * Lionel Désiré Marie François René Moustiers 1861–1866
 * Nicolas Prosper Bourée 1866–1870
 * Louis Dubreuil-Héliou La Gueronnière 1870–1871
 * Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé 1871–1875
 * Jean-François Guillaume Bourgoing 1875–1877
 * Hugues Fournier 1877–1880
 * Charles-Joseph Tissot 1880–1882
 * Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles 1882–1886
 * Gustave Lannes de Montebello 1886–1891
 * Paul Cambon 1891–1898
 * Jean Antoine Ernest Constans 1898–1909
 * Maurice Bompard 1909–1914