French Ambassador

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    The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)