My Royal Clients (Classic Reprint) - Xavier Paoli

Excerpt from My Royal Clients
France has been described by a latter-day historian as the holiday paradise of kings. The predilection shown by foreign potentates for visiting our country lays a heavy and a rather delicate responsibility upon its rulers. The French government has to take measures to ensure the safety of our royal guests and to arrange matters in such a way that a guard is kept around them which is not only constant and watchful, but, at the same time, sufficiently discreet to leave them the illusion of absolute freedom when they visit France incognito, together with the satisfaction of being able to throw off all constraint and mingle unreservedly with the crowd.
The fulfilment of this responsibility represented my task for five-and-twenty years. My duties began as soon as the government was advised, through diplomatic channels, of the approaching arrival of a sovereign or minor member of a royal house.
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