United States Embassy in Paris
The United States Embassy in France is located on Paris Avenue Gabriel in the northwest corner of Place de la Concorde in the 8th arrondissement . A neighboring building is the Hôtel de Crillon , but the Elysée Palace and the ambassador's residence are only a few hundred meters away.
The building
One of the first buildings used by the USA was at 66 rue Raynouard in the 16th arrondissement . A building was built on Avenue Gabriel in 1768, which was demolished in 1931 and rebuilt in the neoclassic style. Architects were Delano & Aldrich from New York in collaboration with Victor Laloux . The stone used was Villebois-Montalieu from the Isère department . Between 1839 and 1854 the building served as the Ottoman embassy .
The institution
The representation of the United States in France has always been of paramount political importance since the country was founded. At first, Silas Deane acted more in secret; Just one year after the United States declared independence , the post was filled for the first time in 1777 and in 1778 it was a success that the Kingdom of France recognized the newly formed state. Four of the founding fathers of the United States worked in Paris: Benjamin Franklin , John Adams , Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe . Thomas Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights .
The title of director varied over the centuries: envoy, minister, plenipotentiary; since 1893 he has been Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary .
In the summer of 1940 the embassy moved to Vichy and diplomatic relations were suspended after the start of Operation Torch ; Jefferson Caffery returned to Paris in late 1944 .
Many outstanding career diplomats served in this post at the end of their careers; in addition, US presidents repeatedly occupied the prestigious position of ambassador in Paris with well-deserved partisans like Sargent Shriver . Ambassador Charles H. Rivkin left his post in November 2013. In October 2014, Jane D. Hartley was dispatched, whose term of office, like that of numerous other government officials, ended with the inauguration of the new US President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, Paris
- ^ RB Bernstein: Thomas Jefferson , Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 0-19-518130-1
- ↑ Information about the ambassador on the embassy website ( memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 12, 2015
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 4 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 14" E