3-047-101 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A reception by M. Thiers at the Palace of the Elysée, 1872. 'The anxiety which has [recently] prevailed, about the result of the severe Parliamentary struggle between M. Thiers and the Conservative party in the National Assembly...gives a strong interest to the scene presented in our Illustration - namely, a soirée for the reception of visitors by the President of the French Government...we see a gorgeous salon, the walls of which are decorated with Gobelins tapestry...Ladies are seated in a half circle, at the upper end of which, on the sofa, are their Royal Highnesses the Comtesse de Paris and Princess Clementine; Madame Thiers, as the hostess, stands near them, talking with the Duc de Nemours and the Prince de Joinville...[At left], easily recognised by his low stature, square head, and spectacles, stands M. Thiers;...General Ladmirault, General Douay, and the Turkish Ambassador, stand behind him. In the centre background...stand two gentlemen in plain evening dress; the foremost, with his hand resting in his waistcoat, is the Comte de Paris, son and heir to the eldest son of King Louis Philippe, therefore Orleanist heir to the Crown; the other is the Duc d'Aumale, his uncle...[Also present is M. de Remusat, Minister of Foreign Affairs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.