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.
List of ambassadors Under the Ancien Régime Ambassadors of Ancien Régime France. Embassy established in Constantinople. Liste chronologique des ambassadeurs depuis 1525, at the French embassy in Turkey; retrieved April 1, 2009A full list of ambassadors and ministers under the Ancien Régime is in François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, Charles Henri Auguste Schefer, Mémoires sur l'ambassade de France en Turquie et sur le commerce des français dans le Levant, Paris, 1877, p. 179. 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 1686–1689 1689–1692 Charles de Ferriol 1692–1711 Pierre Puchot 1711–1716 Jean-Louis d'Usson 1716 1724–1728 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 1821–1823 Armand Charles Guilleminot 1823–1832 Albin Reine Roussin 1832–1839 Edouard Pontois 1839–1841 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 1866–1870 Louis Dubreuil-Héliou La Gueronnière 1870–1871 Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé 1871–1875 Jean-François Guillaume Bourgoing 1875–1877 1877–1880 Charles-Joseph Tissot 1880–1882 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles 1882–1886 1886–1891 Paul Cambon 1891–1898 Jean Antoine Ernest Constans 1898–1909 Maurice Bompard 1909–1914
See also Franco-Ottoman alliance French Ambassador to Turkey (1925–present)
References
External links French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
pl:Francuscy ambasadorzy w Turcji