2-715-187 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Meeting of Queen Louise and Napoleon I in Tilsit, 6 July 1807, (1936). 'Zusammenkunft Der Königin Luise Mit Napoleon I In Tilsit, 6 Juli 1807'. Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776-1810) met the French Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) at Tilsit (now part of Russia), to plead unsuccessfully for favorable terms after Prussia's disastrous losses in the Napoleonic Wars. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]