3-053-675 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Shah in Paris: reception at the Arc de Triomphe by the Prefect of the Seine and Municipal Council, 1873. 'Our Paris correspondent's weekly letter gives some account of what has been done there to entertain his Majesty Nasr-ood-Deen [Shah of Persia] since the grand review in the Bois de Boulogne on Thursday week...He was met at the Passy station by Marshal MacMahon, President of the French Republic, with General Ladmirault, and a large official and military staff. A Royal salute was fired by the batteries of Mont Valérien. The Shah and Marshal MacMahon, in an open carriage, with an escort of cavalry, followed by the attendants in other carriages, went on to the Arc de Triomphe, in the Champs Elysée. Here the Shah was met by the Prefect of the department of the Seine, with the Municipal Council of Paris, from whom he received an address of welcome. This scene is represented in our principal Illustration of his visit to Paris'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.