François Lefebvre de Laboulaye (16 June 1917 – 28 August 1996) was a French diplomat.
[1] Laboulaye was born in Washington in a family of diplomats,[2] he is the son of André Lefebvre de La Boulaye, French Ambassador to the United States, and Marie Hély d'Oissel.
[3] His great-grand father was [[Edouard de Laboulaye]] who launched the movement to offer the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
[2] After a period in Berlin and at the Quai d'Orsay in the sub-directorate of the Levant, he was appointed Embassy Counsellor in Ottawa and then in Washington in 1954.
[2] Upon his return to France, he was in charge of missions at the General Directorate of the Compagnie française des pétroles and then at the Political Affairs Directorate at the ministère des Affaires étrangères.