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"Tous les Grecs étaient à la gare" (et la bonne Pauline)

George I, King of Greece (1845-1913). Autograph message or telegram signed.

[Paris, 1 May 1867].

Oblong 12mo. 1 p. With red seal.

To his uncle Prince John of Schleswig-Holstein in Athens, in charge during George's absence from Greece, about his arrival in Paris at the Gare de Lyon the previous evening and the grand reception afforded to him by Napoléon III, further mentioning the Greek population of Paris, who had shown in great number, as well as his plans for the return journey: "Arrivés ici hier. Reception magnifique de l'Empereur. Tous les Grecs étaient à la gare. Partons vendredi matin pour Venise, dirai jour au viendras a Brindisi [...]".

King George stayed at the Hôtel du Rhin on the Place Vendôme. In his Athens diary, the French diplomat Henry d'Ideville recorded a more extensive report to Prince John, which arrived in Athens on 9 May 1867: "L'empereur est venu le chercher à son hôtel et l'a conduit auprès de l'imperatrice, qui a embrassé sur les deux joues Georges Ier, roi des Hellènes. C'est le régent qui nous a donné lui-même ces détails, d'après une lettre de son neveu" (Journal d'un diplomate en Allemagne et en Grèce, Paris, 1875, p. 308).

Dated "1867" in ink by a collector; additional collector's notes in pencil and crayon on the reverse. Well preserved.