'Napoleon Receiving The Queen of Prussia at Tilsit', 1807, (1896). 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. Engraving after the painting by Nicolas-Louis-François Gosse. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., New York, 1896]
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