United States presidential visits to France

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Eleven United States presidents have made 37 presidential visits to France. The first visits by an incumbent president to France were made in 1918 and 19 by Woodrow Wilson in the aftermath of World War I. He was only the third president in U.S. history to leave the country while in office (after Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft before him). Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts..[1]

Table of visits

United States presidential visits to France

President Dates Locations Notes
Woodrow Wilson December 14–25, 1918 Paris,
Chaumont		 Attended preliminary discussions prior to the Paris Peace Conference; promoted his Fourteen Points principles for world peace. Departed the U.S. December 4.[2]
December 31, 1918 – January 1, 1919 Paris Stopover en route to Italy.[2]
January 7–14, 1919 Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Arrived In the U.S. February 24.[2]
March 14 – June 18, 1919 Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Departed the U.S. March 5.[2]
June 20–28, 1919 Paris Attended Paris Peace Conference. Returned to U.S. July 8..[2]
Dwight D. Eisenhower December 14–19, 1957 Paris Attended the First NATO summit.[3]
September 2–4, 1959 Paris Informal Meeting with President Charles de Gaulle and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni. Addressed North Atlantic Council.[3]
December 18–21, 1959 Toulon,
Paris		 Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.[3]
May 15–19, 1960 Paris Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.[3]
John F. Kennedy May 31 – June 3, 1961 Paris State Visit. Addressed North Atlantic Council. Met with President Charles de Gaulle.[4]
Richard Nixon February 28 –
March 2, 1969		 Paris Met with President Charles de Gaulle.[5]
November 12, 1970 Paris Attended the memorial services for former President Charles de Gaulle.[5]
April 5–7, 1974 Paris Attended the memorial services for former President Georges Pompidou. Met afterward with interim President Alain Poher, Italian President Giovanni Leone, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.[5]
Gerald Ford November 15–17, 1975 Rambouillet Attended the 1st G6 summit.[6]
Jimmy Carter January 4–6, 1978 Paris,
Normandy,
Bayeux,
Versailles		 Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre.[7]
Ronald Reagan June 2–7, 1982 Paris,
Versailles		 State Visit. Met with President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. Attended the 8th G7 summit.[8]
June 6, 1984 Normandy Attended commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. Also present were Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Olav V of Norway, King Baudouin I of Belgium, French President François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.[8]
May 8, 1985 Strasbourg Addressed the European Parliament.[8]
George H. W. Bush July 13–17, 1989 Paris Attended the 15th G7 summit. Also attended ceremonies for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution. Met with Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[9]
November 18–21, 1990 Paris Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.[9]
July 14, 1991 Rambouillet Discussed further sanctions against Iraq with President François Mitterrand.[9]
January 3–5, 1993 Paris Discussed the Bosnian crisis with President François Mitterrand.[9]
Bill Clinton June 6–8, 1994 Colleville,
Paris		 Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. Met with President François Mitterrand and senior French officials. Addressed the French National Assembly.[10]
December 14, 1995 Paris Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty.[10]
June 27–29, 1996 Lyon,
Pérouges,
Paris		 Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.[10]
May 26–27, 1997 Paris Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.[10]
June 16–17, 1999 Paris Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.[10]
George W. Bush May 26–27, 2002 Paris,
Sainte-Mère-Église,
Colleville		 Met with President Jacques Chirac. Delivered a Memorial Day address in Normandy.[11]
June 1–2, 2003 Evian-les-Bains Attended the 29th G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.[11]
June 5–6, 2004 Paris,
Colleville,
Caen,
Arromanches		 Met with President Jacques Chirac. Attended the 60th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies.[11]
June 13–15, 2008 Paris Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Addressed the OECD. Attended wreath-laying ceremonies at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial and Mémorial de la France combattante.[11]
Barack Obama April 3–4, 2009 Strasbourg Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.[12]
June 5–7, 2009 Paris,
Caen,
Normandy		 Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy and dedicated the new visitor center at the U.S. Military Cemetery in Normandy.[12]
May 26–27, 2011 Deauville,
Paris		 Attended the 37th G8 summit.[12]
November 3–4, 2011 Cannes Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting.[12]
June 5–6, 2014 Paris,
Colleville,
Ouistreham		 Met with President François Hollande. Attended the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies.
November 29 –
December 1, 2015		 Paris Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Joined President François Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in paying respects to the victims of the Paris attacks by laying flowers in front of the Bataclan.[13]

See also

References

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