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29 September 2018

Nouveau Panthéon des Souverains

From my good friend, Theodore Harvey's Facebook page.


Thanks to Paulo Woolf for this intriguing composite image of world leaders in 1878. No such gathering occurred, but wouldn’t it have been splendid if it had?

I’m not quite sure about everyone, but can identify most of them. Standing, L-R: Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, ?, Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany, King Luis I of Portugal, President Rutherford B. Hayes of the United States, King Leopold II of Belgium, King Christian IX of Denmark, King Oscar II of Sweden & Norway, King Willem III of the Netherlands, President Patrice de MacMahon of France, King Alfonso XII of Spain, King George I of Greece, King Umberto I of Italy.

Seated: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Emperor Meiji of Japan, ?, Pope Leo XIII.
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1 comment:

  1. Unknown28 May 2020 at 21:15

    How interesting I have a faded picture similar to this but age accurate for QV and others and I had no idea where it came from, it has been in my family for at least 100 years.

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