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I do not remember the name of any one of them. As a novelty, we had a Turkish Ambassador. For centuries there had been none but temporary Ottoman missions. The first permanently appointed ambassador we had, before Namick and Reschid Pashas, who both spoke French very well, was Ahmed Fethi Pasha. He did not know a single word of our language.
The Sultan gave me an uninteresting audience in the pretty Top-Kapou Palace now burnt down, I believe which stood on the extreme end of the Seraglio point. I had visited the palace, which was then unoccupied, with a very witty Pasha who spoke French admirably well and whom I had known in Paris Namick Pasha, commander of the Imperial Guard.
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