Askar Khan Afshar was a Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

 ambassador who was sent to Paris, during the period of the Franco-Persian alliance

Franco-Persian alliance

A Franco-Persian alliance was formed for a short period between the French Empire of Napoleon I and the Persian Empire of Fath Ali Shah against Russia and Great Britain between 1807 to 1809. The alliance was part of a grand Napoleonic scheme to cross the Middle East in order to attack British India...

. He arrived in Paris on 20 July 1808 and was able to meet Napoleon on 4 September 1808 at Château de Saint-Cloud

Château de Saint-Cloud

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

Great Britain

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, then France's enemy in the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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

Ottoman Empire

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 ambassador Muhib Efendi

Muhib Efendi

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

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