2-888-642 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

M. E. Drouyn de Lhuys, 1850. Portrait of French diplomat Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys. 'The subsequent appointment of M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the Court of St. James', and his stay in London, are, doubtless, within the recollection of our readers. He is a man of considerable literary attainments, and contributes to a Moderate journal established by himself and his friend M. de Chambotte. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, by his marriage with Mdlle. de St. Criq (conjoined with his own fortune), is expected to become one of the richest men in France'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.