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The Peace Plenipotentiaries - from a photograph by Mayer Brothers, and Pierson, of Paris, 1856. The Treaty of Paris brought an end to the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia: '...(seated) in the centre, is Count Walewski (France); on his right are Lord Clarendon (Great Britain), Aali Pacha (Turkey), and Baron de Hubner (Austria). On the left of M. Walewski are seated Count Orloff (Russia), Baron de Bourqueney (France), and Lord Cowley (Great Britain). Of the line of standing figures, commencing from the left, are the Count de Cavour and the Marquis de Villamarina (Sardinia), Count de Hatzfeldt (Prussia), M. Benedetti (France), redacteur des protocoles; Mehemmed Djenik [sic] Bey (Turkey), Baron de Brunnow (Russia), Baron de Manteuffel (Prussia), Count Buol (Austria)'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.