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Baron von Manteuffel, Prussian Plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference, 1856. 'At the eleventh hour Prussia has been invited to join the Peace Congress at Paris, and has accepted the invitation...On the resignation of Count Ladenberg in 1850, the King [of Prussia], appreciating the firmness displayed by Baron von Manteuffel during the revolutionary period, conferred upon him the Presidency of the Council with the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, both of which high offices he continues to hold. His selection as Plenipotentiary to the Paris Conferences shows the confidence placed in him by the King, and is in keeping with the precedent of the other States represented'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.