Askar Khan Afshar in Paris between July 1808 to April 1810 by Madame Vavin

Askar Khan Afshar received by Napoleon I at Saint Cloud 4 September 1808 by Benjamin Zix

Askar Khan Afshar ( fa, عسکر خان افشار) was a

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ambassador who was sent to Paris, during the period of the

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. He arrived in Paris on 20 July 1808 and met Napoleon on 4 September 1808 at

Château de Saint-Cloud The Château de Saint-Cloud was a château in France, built on a site overlooking the Seine at Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine, about west of Paris. On the site of the former palace is the state-owned Parc de Saint-Cloud. The château was expand ...

. He left in April 1810, as Persia in turn allied with

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, then France's enemy in the

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. Askar Khan Afshar's posting in Paris partly coincided with that of the

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ambassador

Muhib Efendi Muhib Efendi was an Ottoman Empire ambassador to the court of Napoleon I in Paris in the early 19th century, between 1806 and 1811. In February 1806, following Napoleon's remarkable victory in the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805 and the ensu ...

. In 1817, Askar Khan was appointed to be a ''mehmandar'' i.e. an official guide of Russian embassy headed by general Yermolov. Narrative of a Journey Into Persia...
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