List of French ambassadors in Austria

French Embassy in Vienna

This is a list of the French envoys and ambassadors in the Habsburg Monarchy or in the Empire of Austria and Austria-Hungary as well as in the Republic of Austria .

The French monarchs sent diplomats to the Roman German emperors , who were often Archduke of Austria in personal union , and to the Reichstag .

Heads of mission

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	born	died	Remarks	appointed while in government	accredited while in government	Leave post
1535	Monsieur de Villy			With the Roman German Emperor	Franz I.	Charles V
Apr. 1540	Georges de Selve	1506	1542		Franz I.	Ferdinand I.
Apr. 1540	Antoine Hellin			Council at the court of the parliament with the governor of the Spanish Netherlands	Franz I.	Margaret of Austria
June 1547	Charles I. de Cossé			comte de Brissac	Henry II	Ferdinand I.
Apr 1620	Charles de Valois, duc d'Angoulême	1573	1650	Duc d'Angoulême	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
Apr 1620	Philippe de Béthune	1571	1649	Philippe de Béthune	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
Apr 1620	Charles d'Aubespine	1580	1653	Charles d'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
1623	de Baugy				Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.	1624
1624	Caspar de Valembourg				Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.	1627
1627	Jean Ceberet				Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.	1633
1630	Charles Chrestien de Gournay				Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
13 Sep 1630	Charles Brûlart	1571	1649	Prieur de Léon; accompanied by Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu confidante Père Joseph, concluded in the name, if not with the power of attorney, of Louis XIII. on September 13, 1630 a universal peace with Ferdinand II , which went beyond the settlement of the war in northern Italy and the Mantanian succession.	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
1630	François Le Clerc du Tremblay	1577	1638	dit le père Joseph ; Friend and collaborator of Richelieu	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.
1633	Nicolas de Charbonnières			permanent resident	Louis XIII	Ferdinand II.	1636
1638	Jean de Lonlay			Seigneur de Saint-Georges	Louis XIII	Ferdinand III.	1639
1649	François de Lopis de Mondevergue				Louis XIV	Ferdinand III.	1650
1656	Robert de Wignacourt			Seigneur de Fontaine	Louis XIV	Ferdinand III.
1656	Adolphe-Guillaume de Crosieg				Louis XIV	Ferdinand III.
1660	Charles Colbert de Vandières				Louis XIV	Leopold I.
1655	Gaspar de Teves Tello de Guzman			Marques de la Fuente, Count of Benazuza; at the same time Spanish ambassador	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1662
1663	Alexandre Cheneval (Chennevas)	1625	1686	Sieur d'Yacourt (Jeucourt), de Tourny; Chargé d'affaires	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1664
1664	Jacques Brethel de Grémonville	1625	1686	Special envoy	Louis XIV	Leopold I.
1679	Nicolas-Marie de l'Hospital	1620		Marquis de Vitry	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1680
1680	François Cadot			Marquis de Sébeville	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1683
1684	Louis de Clermont-Gallerande			Comte de Cheverny	Louis XIV	Leopold I.
1684	André de Bétoulat			Comte de La Vauguyon	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1687
Jan. 1687	Claude-Louis Hector	1653	1734	Marquis de Villars	Louis XIV	Leopold I.
Dec 1687	Claude-Hugues de Lezay			Comte de Lusignan	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1689
1692	Abbé Jean Morel				Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1693
1692	Hugues-Louis de Reding				Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1693
1692	Charles de Stainville				Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1693
1692	Sheep house				Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1693
1697	De Linde			Pseudonym d'Imhoff	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1698
1698	Claude-Louis Hector	1653	1734	Marquis de Villars	Louis XIV	Leopold I.	1702
Jan. 1715	Charles François	1643	1740	Comte du Luc	Louis XV	Charles VI	1717
1717	Jean-Baptiste Radiguet			Abbé du Bourg	Louis XV	Charles VI	1725
1724	Dieudonné Dumat				Louis XV	Charles VI
Nov. 1725	Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis	1696	1788	Duc	Louis XV	Charles VI	May 1728
1728	François de Bussy	1699	1780		Louis XV	Charles VI	1733
1735	Jean-Gabriel de la Porte Dutheil				Louis XV	Charles VI	1737
Oct 12, 1738	Gaston Pierre de Lévis-Mirepoix	1699	1757		Louis XV	Charles VI	1749
1749	Louis-Augustin Blondel	1696	1791		Louis XV	Charles VII
Sep 1750	Emmanuel marquis de Hautefort				Louis XV	Charles VII	Jan. 1753
Sep 1753	Henri-Joseph d'Aubeterre	1714	1788		Louis XV	Charles VII	Jan. 1757
1756	Louis-Charles Le Tellier	1694	1771	Comte d'Estrée	Louis XV	Charles VII
Aug 1757	Etienne de Stainville	1719	1785	Duc de Choiseul	Louis XV	Charles VII	Oct. 1758
1758	César Gabriel de Choiseul	1712	1785	Duc de Praslin	Louis XV	Charles VII	1761
1761	Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet			Comte du Châtelet	Louis XV	Charles VII	1766
Feb 3, 1767	Emeric Joseph Jacques Civrac	March 19, 1716	Apr 8, 1787	Marquis de Durfort	Louis XV	Joseph II	May 1770
1770	Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier	1733	1807	Baron de Breteuil	Louis XV	Joseph II
1770	Durand d'Aubigny	1707	1776		Louis XV	Joseph II	1771
July 1771	Louis René Edouard de Rohan-Guéméné	1734	1813	Cardinal prince	Louis XV	Joseph II	July 1774
July 1774	Abbé Georgel	1731	1813	Abbé	Louis XVI	Joseph II	Dec 1774
Dec 1774	Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier	1733	1807	Baron de Breteuil	Louis XVI	Joseph II	Jan. 1783
Oct. 1783	Emmanuel Marie-Louis marquis de Noailles	1743	1822	Marquis de Noailles	Louis XVI	Joseph II	1792
Apr. 1791	Baron Louis-Dominique Louis, dit l'abbé Louis	1755	1837	Baron, dit l'abbé Louis	Louis XVI	Leopold II.
Jan. 1798	Général Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte	1763	1844		Directory	Francis II	May 1798
Aug. 1800	Gérard-Christophe-Michel Duroc	1772	1813		Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	July 1801
July 1801	Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny	1756	1834	Duc de Cadore	Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	Aug 1804
1805	Ignace Comte de Giullay	1765			Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II
Jan. 23, 1805	Alexandre François comte de la Rochefoucauld	1767	1841	Comte de la Rochefoucauld	Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	Nov. 1806
Nov. 1806	Général Antoine-François comte Andréossy	1761	1828	Comte Andréossy	Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	1809
Jan. 1810	Louis-Guillaume Otto	1754	1817	Comte de Mosloy	Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	March 1813
Feb. 1810	Maréchal Alexandre Berthier	1753	1815		Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	March 1810
March 1813	Louis comte de Narbonne	1755	1814	Comte de Narbonne	Napoleon Bonaparte	Francis II	1814
Sep 1814	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord	1754	1838	Prince de Bénévent	Louis XVIII	Francis II	June 1815
March 1816	Victor Louis Charles de Riquet	Dec. 24, 1762	Dec 25, 1839	Duc de Caraman	Louis XVIII	Francis II	May 1828
May 1828	Anne-Adrien Pierre duc de Laval-Montmorency	1767	1837	Duc de Laval-Montmorency	Charles X.	Francis II	Oct. 1829
Oct. 1829	Comte de Rayneval	1778	1836	Comte de Rayneval	Charles X.	Francis II	July 1830
Aug 1830	Général Belliard	1769	1832		Louis-Philippe I.	Francis II
Sep 1830	Maréchal Maison	1771	1840		Louis-Philippe I.	Francis II	Dec 1832
Dec 1832	Comte Louis de Saint-Aulaire	1778	1854	Comte	Louis-Philippe I.	Francis II	Sep 1841
Sep 1841	Comte de Flahault de la Billiarderie	1785	1871	Comte	Louis-Philippe I.	Ferdinand I.	Sep 1848
Sep 1848	Pascal Duprat	1816	1885		Louis-Philippe I.	Franz Joseph I.	Apr. 1849
Apr. 1849	Edouard de Lacour	1805	1873		Second French Republic	Franz Joseph I.	Sep 1849
Sep 1849	Gustave de Beaumont				Second French Republic	Franz Joseph I.	Dec 1849
Dec 1849	Edouard de Lacour				Second French Republic	Franz Joseph I.	Feb. 1853
Feb. 1853	François-Adolphe baron de Bourqueney	1799	1869	Baron de Bourqueney	Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	May 1856
May 1856	François-Adolphe baron de Bourqueney			Baron de Bourqueney	Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	Nov. 1859
Nov. 1859	Marquis Lionel de Moustier	1817	Feb 5, 1869		Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	Aug 1861
Aug 1861	Agénor de Gramont	1819	1871	Duc	Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	July 1870
July 1870	Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne	1823	1871	Prince	Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	Aug 1870
Aug 1870	Michel Pierre Antoine Laurent Agar de Mosbourg			Comte de Mosbourg	Napoleon III	Franz Joseph I.	March 1871
March 1871	Gaston de Banneville	1818	1881	marquis	Adolphe Thiers	Franz Joseph I.	Sep 1873
Sep 1873	Bernard d'Harcourt	1821	1912	marquis	Patrice de Mac-Mahon	Franz Joseph I.	May 1875
May 1875	Melchior de Vogue	1829	1916	Comte	Patrice de Mac-Mahon	Franz Joseph I.	Feb. 1879
Feb. 1879	Pierre-Edouard Teisserenc de Bort	1814			Jules Grévy	Franz Joseph I.	Apr. 1880
Apr. 1880	Comte Duchâtel	1838	1895	Comte	Jules Grévy	Franz Joseph I.	Aug 1883
Aug 1883	Comte Foucher de Careil	1825	1891	Comte	Jules Grévy	Franz Joseph I.	July 1886
July 1886	Pierre Decrais	1838	1895		Jules Grévy	Franz Joseph I.	Nov 1893
Nov 1893	Henri-Auguste Lozé	1850	1915		Marie François Sadi Carnot	Franz Joseph I.	Oct. 1897
Oct. 1897	Marquis Jacques Frédéric de Reverseaux de Rouvray	1845	1916	marquis	Félix Faure	Franz Joseph I.	Jan. 1907
Jan. 1907	Philippe Crozier	1857	1944		Armand Fallières	Franz Joseph I.	May 1912
May 1912	Alfred Chilhaud Dumaine	1852	1930		Armand Fallières	Franz Joseph I.	Aug 1914
Apr. 1919	Henri Allizé	1860	1930		Raymond Poincaré	Karl Renner	Feb. 1920
Feb. 1920	Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis	1864	1938		Paul Deschanel	Michael Mayr	Aug 1920
Aug 1920	Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis	1864	1938		Paul Deschanel	Michael Mayr	Oct. 1924
Oct. 1924	Maurice Delarüe Caron de Beaumarchais	1872			Gaston Doumergue	Rudolf Ramek	Dec 1926
Dec 1926	Louis Pineton de Chambrun	1875			Gaston Doumergue	Ignaz Seipel	Apr. 1928
Apr. 1928	Comte Clauzel			Comte	Gaston Doumergue	Ignaz Seipel	Apr. 1933
Apr. 1933	Gabriel Puaux	1883	1970		Albert Lebrun	Engelbert Dollfuss	March 1938
March 1938	Jean Chauvel	1897	1979		Albert Lebrun	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Oct. 1938
Oct. 1938	Jacques Chartier	1892			Albert Lebrun	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Dec 1938
Dec 1945	Gabriel Padovani				Charles de Gaulle	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	June 1946
July 1946	Louis de Monicault	1895	1965		Félix Gouin	Leopold Figl	Aug 1946
Aug 1946	Louis de Monicault	1895	1965		Félix Gouin	Leopold Figl	Oct 1950
Oct 1950	Jean Payart	1892	1969		Vincent Auriol	Leopold Figl	Dec 1951
Dec 1951	Jean Payart	1892	1969		Vincent Auriol	Leopold Figl	Jan. 1955
Jan. 1955	Jean Chauvel	1897	1979		René Coty	Julius Raab	June 1955
June 1955	François Seydoux de Clausonne	1905	1981		René Coty	Julius Raab	Sep 1958
Sep 1958	Etienne de Crouy-Chanel	1905	1990		René Coty	Julius Raab	July 1961
July 1961	René Brouillet	1909	1992		Charles de Gaulle	Alfons Gorbach	Dec 1963
Dec 1963	Louis Roché	1903	1989		Charles de Gaulle	Alfons Gorbach	Dec 1968
Dec 1968	François Leduc	1912	1992		Charles de Gaulle	Josef Klaus	Nov 1973
Nov 1973	Augustine Jordan	1910			Georges Pompidou	Bruno Kreisky	Nov 1975
Nov 1975	Georges Gaucher	1920			Valery Giscard d'Estaing	Bruno Kreisky	Aug 1978
Aug 1978	Jacques Schricke	1920	1985		Valery Giscard d'Estaing	Bruno Kreisky	May 1981
May 1981	Raymond Bressier	1919	1987		François Mitterrand	Bruno Kreisky	May 1983
1985	Jean Audibert	1927			François Mitterrand	Fred Sinowatz	Apr 1985
Apr 1985	François-Régis Bastide	1926			François Mitterrand	Fred Sinowatz	Dec 1988
Dec 1988	Jean-François Noiville	1927			François Mitterrand	Fred Sinowatz	June 1991
June 1991	André Lewin	1934			François Mitterrand	Franz Vranitzky	Apr 2, 1996
Apr 2, 1996	Madame de Hartingh				Jacques Chirac	Franz Vranitzky	Nov 28, 1997
Nov 28, 1998	Jean Cadet	1942			Jacques Chirac	Viktor Klima
2000	Alain Catta	1947			Jacques Chirac	Wolfgang bowl	Jan. 13, 2005
Jan. 13, 2005	Pierre Viaux	1945			Jacques Chirac	Wolfgang bowl	Sep 2008
Oct 2008	Philippe Carré	1954			Nicolas Sarkozy	Werner Faymann

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See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors in France

Individual evidence

1. ^ Charles | d'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf
2. ↑ Caspar de Valembourg
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 24, 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. 
4. ^ Franz Deuticke, André Lewin The French Embassy in Vienna : History of the house on Schwarzenbergplatz with anecdotes about messages from France from four centuries, 1995 - 130 p., P. 120