The British Ambassador to France is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris. The official title is His Majesty's Ambassador to France. Traditionally, the Embassy to France has been the most prestigious posting in the British foreign service, although in past centuries, diplomatic representation was lacking due to wars between the two countries and the Nazi occupation. For the period before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to France (up to 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France (from 1707 to 1800). The Paris embassy also covers remotely the French overseas territories (including French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Réunion, French Polynesia, Mayotte, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, Saint-Barthélemy) and Monaco. Besides the embassy, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office maintains consulates in Bordeaux and Marseille in southern France. British Ambassadors and Ministers to France There was no representation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom in France from 1792 to 1801, due to the French Revolutionary Wars 1801–1802: The Marquess Cornwallis, Plenipotentiary 1802–1803: The Lord Whitworth No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars 1806: Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiaries 1814–1815: The Duke of Wellington 1815–1824: Sir Charles Stuart 1824–1828: The Viscount Granville 1828–1830: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay 1830–1835: The Viscount Granville 1835: The Lord Cowley 1835–1841: The Earl Granville 1841–1846: The Lord Cowley 1846–1852: The Marquess of Normanby 1852–1867: The Earl Cowley 1867–1887: The Viscount Lyons 1887–1891: The Earl of Lytton 1891–1896: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava 1896–1905: Sir Edmund Monson 1905–1918: Sir Francis Bertie 1918–1920: The Earl of Derby 1920–1922: The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst 1922–1928: The Marquess of Crewe 1928–1934: Sir William Tyrrell 1934–1937: Sir George Clerk 1937–1939: Sir Eric Phipps 1939–1940: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell No representation from 1940 to 1944, due to the German occupation of France during the Second World War 1944–1948: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, (previously Representative to the Free French in Algiers from 1943) 1948–1954: Sir Oliver Harvey 1954–1960: Sir Gladwyn Jebb 1960–1965: Sir Pierson Dixon 1965–1968: Sir Patrick Reilly 1968–1972: Sir Christopher Soames 1972–1975: Sir Edward Tomkins 1975–1979: Sir Nicholas Henderson 1979–1982: Sir Reginald Hibbert 1982–1987: Sir John Fretwell 1987–1993: Sir Ewen Fergusson 1993–1996: Sir Christopher