https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/the-ministry-and-its-network/the-work-of-the-ministry-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs/discover-the-ministry-history-virtual-tour-etc/our-history/?xtor=RSS-1 France had diplomats before it had a minister of foreign affairs and had a minister before it had a ministry. Diplomatic counsellors to the Secretaries of State The Kings of France always had a foreign policy, but to begin with they handled it alone, directly with other sovereigns. They had diplomatic counsellors, for example, Commynes for Louis XI. They sent temporary and subsequently permanent embassies. However, all these things do not make a ministry, which provides a number of (…) en https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH72/visuel_defaut_une_fd-44916-890bc.jpg?1702480414 https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr?xtor=RSS-1