List of French ambassadors in Iran

This is the list of heads of the French diplomatic mission in Tehran .

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Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited government by	Leave post
1700	Jean Billon de Cancerille	Jean-Baptiste Fabre Marie Petit (* 1675; † 1715)	Louis XIV	Sultan Hosein
1708	Jean Billon de Cancerille		Louis XIV	Sultan Hosein
1719	Etienne Padery	(* 1674 Athens ), dragoman in Constantinople , consul in Shiraz	Louis XV	Sultan Hosein	1725
1806	Claude Mathieu Gardane	from left: Claude Mathieu Gardane (born July 11, 1766 in Marseille ; † January 30, 1818 at the Château de Lincel in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire), Pierre Amédée Jaubert and Joseph-Marie Jouannin at the court of Fath Ali Shah . Pierre Amédée Jaubert left Constantinople in March 1805. The documents of the Mission du général Gardane en Perse were published by his son Alfred de Gardane.	Napoleon Bonaparte	Fath Ali Shah	1809
1825	Eugène Desbassayns de Richemont	(March 29, 1800 - June 26, 1859)	Charles X.	Fath Ali Shah
8 Sep 1839	Edouard de Sercey	(April 1, 1802; † August 30, 1881) accompanied by Eugène Flandin and Pascal-Xavier Coste on the mission	Louis-Philippe I.	Mohammed Shah	Nov 1840
1840	Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès	(* June 24, 1767 in Marseille; † June 13, 1846)	Louis-Philippe I.	Mohammed Shah
Feb. 1844	Eugène de Sartiges	(* 1809; † 1892) 1851–1859: envoy in Washington	Louis-Philippe I.	Mohammed Shah	March 1849
1845	Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès		Louis-Philippe I.	Mohammed Shah
1848	Alphonse François Marie Dano Alphonse Dano	Chargé (* October 15, 1818 in Vannes )	Louis-Philippe I.	Naser ad-Din Shah
1850	Ernest Cloquet	(* 1818 in Paris; † 1856 in Tehran) personal physician to Nāser ad-Din Shah	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah
May 3, 1855	Vincent Count Benedetti	Was appointed and turned down.	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah
May 9, 1855	Nicolas Prosper Bourée	Nicolas Prosper Bourée (born March 26, 1811; † 1886) 1849–1852: Consul General in Tangier , 1866–1870 Ambassador to the Sublime Porte . In December 1854 Arthur de Gobineau was appointed legation secretary in Tehran . He traveled to Tehran via Marseille and Bushehr . There he learned the Persian language and tried to decipher the cuneiform script . In 1858 he left the court of Nāser ad-Din Shah .	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	1857
16 Aug 1857	André Théodore Pichon	(Born June 6, 1805 in Paris; † February 12, 1891) son of Louis André Pichon (1771; † 1854); Consul General in Port-au-Prince , 1846–1857: Consul General in Smyrna .	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Jan. 16, 1862
Aug 1857	Henry de Bellonnet	Chargé d'affaires	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Jan. 1858
28 Aug 1861	Arthur de Gobineau	accredited on January 16, 1862	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct. 1864
Aug 1861	Henry de Bellonnet	Chargé d'affaires	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct. 1864
1863	Julien de Rochechouart	Chargé d'affaires	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah
Oct 5, 1864	Jacques-Adolphe Cousseau, comte de Massignac	(* 1815; † 1879), Legalions Secretary 1852 - December 1854 in Athens, December 1854–1861 in Mûnchen.	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah
March 23, 1867	Robert Ernest de Bonnières de Wierre	Son of Eugène de Bonnières de Wierre (born January 30, 1879)	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct 28, 1872
May 13, 1870	Charles de Maugny	Chargé d'affaires	Napoleon III	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct 1, 1871
Oct 1, 1871	Gaston Belle	D'affaires accredited on July 17, 1871	Adolphe Thiers	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct 28, 1872
Oct 28, 1872	Alexandre Mellinet		Adolphe Thiers	Naser ad-Din Shah
May 1, 1878	Joseph de Mareuil	Chargé d'affaires	Patrice de Mac-Mahon	Naser ad-Din Shah	Dec 31, 1879
Sep 24 1879	Arthur Trico	accredited on March 2, 1882	Jules Grévy	Naser ad-Din Shah	Oct 3, 1881
1894	René Davy de Chavigné de Balloy	obtained exclusive permission for archaeological research in Persia.	Jules Grévy	Naser ad-Din Shah
Oct 9, 1898	Fernand Souhart		Félix Faure	Mozaffar ad-Din Shah	Oct 16, 1900
1900	Ernest Bourgare		Émile Loubet	Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
Sep 18 1902	Jules Albert Defrance		Émile Loubet	Mozaffar ad-Din Shah	Nov 8, 1905
Nov 8, 1905	Léon Eugène Descos		Émile Loubet	Mozaffar ad-Din Shah	Jan. 23, 1905
March 17, 1907	Maximilien de La Martinière	ministre de France à Téhéran	Armand Fallières	Mohammed Ali Shah
June 7, 1907	Louis Alphonse Daniel Nicolas	(Born March 27, 1864 in Rasht ) attended the Ecole des jeunes de langues and the Ecole des langues orien tales vivantes . Joined foreign service on August 12, 1877. Consul in Tabriz .	Armand Fallières	Mohammed Ali Shah	1916
June 7, 1907	Ramize Vadala	Consul in Bushehr	Armand Fallières	Mohammed Ali Shah
June 7, 1907	Lucien Saugon	Dragoman in Tehran 1916 Consul in Tabriz	Armand Fallières	Mohammed Ali Shah
June 7, 1907	Jules Sempé	Consul in Rasht	Armand Fallières	Mohammed Ali Shah
Oct. 1910	Joseph du Poulpiquet du Halgouët	Chargé (born November 23, 1874) son of Pleiber-Christ Finistère, viscount Joseph Marie Jean Guy de Poulipiquet you Halgouët	Armand Fallières	Ahmad Shah Qajar	May 24, 1911
Feb. 1918	Jean-Roger Clause	not accredited	Raymond Poincaré	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Aug 1918
1918	Raymond Lecomte	died as chargé d'affaires	Raymond Poincaré	Ahmad Shah Qajar
Sep 1918	Charles Bonin		Raymond Poincaré	Ahmad Shah Qajar	July 1921
Oct. 1920	Henry Hoppenot	Chargé d'affaires	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	July 1921
July 28, 1921	Henry Hoppenot	Chargé d'affaires	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	December 20, 1921
July 28, 1921	Fernand Prévost	Son of Jeanne and Hippolyte Prévost	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Jan. 16, 1924
Apr. 1923	Maurice Dayet	Chargé d'affaires	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Dec 1925
Jan 25, 1924	Lucien Bonzom	Protecting power	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	Feb 12, 1926
Jan. 1924	Maurice Dayet	Chargé d'affaires	Alexandre Millerand	Ahmad Shah Qajar	June 1924
Dec 1925	Gaston Maugras		Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr. 1927
1926	Jaques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin	Chargé d'affaires	Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr. 1926
Dec 1926	Paul Ballerea	Chargé d'affaires	Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr. 1927
Apr 30, 1927	Henry Wilden		Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Dec 10, 1929
Apr. 1927	Paul Ballerea	Chargé d'affaires	Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Dec 1929
Dec 1929	Gaston Maugras		Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Aug 1934
Jan. 1930	Edouard de Sercey	Chargé d'affaires	Gaston Doumergue	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Sep 1930
June 1933	Bernard Hardion	Chargé d'affaires	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr. 1934
Aug 1934	Jean Pozzi		Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	March 1937
Oct. 2, 1934	Claude Achille Clarac	Chargé d'affaires	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr 18, 1935
Feb. 1936	Claude Achille Clarac	Chargé d'affaires	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr. 1937
March 1937	Albert Bodard		Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Aug 1939
Nov. 1937	Pierre-Henry de La Blanche Valley	Chargé d'affaires	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Aug 1938
December 29, 1938		echoring relationships	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Feb 21, 1939
Apr 22, 1939	Maxime Weygand		Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Apr 25, 1939
June 30, 1939	Jacques Coiffard	Chargé d'affaires	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Dec 1939
Aug 1939	Jean-Louis Helleu	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire	Albert Lebrun	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Feb. 1941
Feb. 1941	Henry Hoppenot	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire could not attach a letter of accreditation	Philippe Pétain	Reza Shah Pahlavi	July 1941
Feb. 1941	Jean-Louis Helleu	Chargé d'affaires	Philippe Pétain	Reza Shah Pahlavi	July 1941
Aug 1941	Jean Payar	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire could not attach a letter of accreditation	Philippe Pétain	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Feb. 1942
July 1941	Jacques Coiffard	Chargé d'affaires	Philippe Pétain	Reza Shah Pahlavi	Jan. 1942
Jan. 12, 1942	Marcel Bleuzet	Chargé d'affaires	Philippe Pétain	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Feb 5, 1942
Feb 5, 1942		Interruption of relations by the Vichy regime	Philippe Pétain	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1944	Pierre Lafond		Charles de Gaulle	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1950
1950	François Coulet		Vincent Auriol	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1955
1955	Jacques-Émile Paris		René Coty	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1956
1956	Henri Roux		René Coty	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1961
1961	Renaud Sivan		Charles de Gaulle	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1969
March 7, 1969	Jules Henri François Charles-Roux		Alain Poher	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	4th July 1972
1972	Robert de Souza		Georges Pompidou	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1977
1977	René de Saint-Légier de La Sausaye		Valery Giscard d'Estaing	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1977
1977	Raoul Delaye		Valery Giscard d'Estaing	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1980
1980	Guy Georgy		Valery Giscard d'Estaing	Abolhassan Banisadr	1982
1982	José Paoli		François Mitterrand	Ali Khamene'i	1984
1985	Pierre Lafrance		François Mitterrand	Ali Khamene'i	1987
17th July 1987	Rupturedes relations diplomatiques	Protecting power : Italy	François Mitterrand	Ali Khamene'i	June 16, 1988
1988	Christian Graeff		François Mitterrand	Ali Khamene'i	1991
1991	Hubert Colin de Verdière		François Mitterrand	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	1994
1994	Jean-Pierre Masset		François Mitterrand	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	1998
1998	Philippe de Suremain		Jacques Chirac	Mohammad Chatami	2001
2001	François Nicoullaud		Jacques Chirac	Mohammad Chatami	2005
2005	Bernard Poletti		Jacques Chirac	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	2010
2011	Bruno Foucher		Nicolas Sarkozy	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florence Hellot-Bellier: France-Iran: quatre cents ans de dialogue . Association pour l'avancement des études iraniennes. 2007, p. 48 ff List chronologique des ambassadeurs - La France en Iran ( Memento of the original of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)