List of French envoys in Tuscany

This is a list of the French envoys and authorized ministers in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (until 1860).

history

The Kingdom of France and the Duchy of Tuscany had diplomatic relations as early as the 16th century . Two daughters of the Medici family ( Caterina and Maria ) were queens of France .

In 1801, under pressure from the French Empire , the Tuscan Grand Duke Ferdinand III. deposed, and the Kingdom of Etruria established under the House of Bourbon-Parma . In 1807 this was annexed by France. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was restored in 1814 until it joined the Kingdom of Italy in 1860 .

Heads of mission

Appointment / accreditation	Recall	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
1768	1792	Joseph-Pierre Balthazar de Puget	(* 1720)	Louis XV	Leopold I.
1792	1793, Oct.	Alexandre de Laflotte	(* 1766; † 1794) Chargé d'affaires	National Convention	Ferdinand III.
1793	1795	François Cacault	(* 1743- † 1805)	National Convention	Ferdinand III.
1795	1796	André-François Miot de Mélito	André-François Miot (left) with the family of Grand Duke Ferdinand III. (1796) Painting by Louis Gauffier (1762–1801), now in the National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne (* 1762; † 1841) Foreign Minister from 1794 to 1795 , envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont from 1796 to 1798	National Convention	Ferdinand III.
1796	1798
1798	1799	Charles Frédéric de Reinhard	(* 1761; † 1837) 1795 to 1797 and 1802 to 1805 envoy to the Hanseatic cities , 1799 Foreign Minister , 1818 to 1830 envoy to the German Confederation , 1830 to 1832 in Saxony	Directory	Ferdinand III.
1799	1801
1801	1802	Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier	(* 1752; † 1826) 1798 to 1799 envoy to Bavaria , 1802 to 1804 in Naples, 1805 to 1806 ambassador to the Holy See, 1810 to 1811 envoy to Sweden , 1811 to 1814 to Denmark	consulate	Ludwig I.
1802	1806
1806	1807	Pierre Raymond Hector d'Aubusson	(* 1765- † 1848)	Napoleon I.	Karl Ludwig
1808	1814		no relationships
1816, Jan. 8	1818	Joseph-Hilarion de Gautier	(* 1757) Prime Minister	Louis XVIII	Ferdinand III.
1818, March 30th	1820	Edouard Dillon	(* 1750- † 1839)	Louis XVIII	Ferdinand III.
1820, Jul 19	1827	Louis Dubois-Descours	(* 1763; † 1827)	Louis XVIII	Ferdinand III.
1827, Dec. 9	1833	Eugène François d'Arnauld	(* 1774; † 1854)	Charles X.	Leopold II.
1833, Jan. 2	1833	Adalbert Charles de Talleyrand	(* 1758; † 1841) Minister resident , 1833 to 1834 envoy to the Hanseatic cities	Louis-Philippe I.	Leopold II.
1833, Oct. 7	1841	Pierre Vincent Gabriel Bellocq	(† 1888) Prime Minister , 1832 to 1833 envoy to the Hanseatic cities	Louis-Philippe I.	Leopold II.
1841	1845
1845, Apr 6.	1848	Hippolyte de La Rochefoucauld	(* 1804; † 1863)	Louis-Philippe I.	Leopold II.
1848, Apr. 14	1848	François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas	(* 1781; † 1850)	Jacques C. Dupont	Leopold II.
1848, June 13	1848	Alphonse de Rayneval	(* 1813; † 1858) 1848 to 1849 envoy to Naples, 1849 foreign minister , 1850 to 1857 ambassador to the Holy See , 1857 to 1858 to Russia	Executive Committee	Leopold II.
1848, June 29	1849	Adrien-Théodore Benoît-Champy	(* 1805; † 1872)	Eugène Cavaignac	Leopold II.
1849, Jan. 26	1850	Alexandre Colonna-Walewski	(* 1810; † 1868) 1850 to 1851 envoy to Naples, 1851 to 1851 envoy to Spain , 1851 to 1855 ambassador to the United Kingdom , 1855 to 1860 foreign minister	Louis N. Bonaparte	Leopold II.
1850, Apr 17	1855	Gustave de Monttessuy	(* 1809; † 1881) Minister in Hanover from 1849 to 1850 , and in Belgium from 1858 to 1861	Louis N. Bonaparte	Leopold II.
1855, Nov. 7	1857	Henri-Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne	de La Tour d'Auvergne (* 1823; † 1871) 1857 to 1859 envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont , 1859 to 1863 to Prussia , 1863 to 1869 ambassador to the United Kingdom , 1869 and 1870 foreign minister	Napoleon III	Leopold II.
1857, 16 Aug	1860	Théophile de Ferrière Le Vayer	(* 1812; † 1864)	Napoleon III	Leopold II.

1860: Dissolution of the embassy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministère des affaires étrangères : Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République française . Paris 1906, p. 431 f. [Toscane] ( online ).