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Lord Cowley- was Ambassador in Paris during some of the

most interesting years' of last • century, and was able to' see the reaction of France to such momentous events as the Crimean War, and later the Seven Weeks War. His son, Colonel the Hop-. F. Wellesley, has Collected and edited his papers, which' are now published as The Paris Embassy During the Second Empire, A Selection from the Papers of Earl Cowley, British Ambassador to France (Thornton Butterworth, 25s.).

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