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Promenade of the Ambassadors of Tipu Sultan in the Park of Saint-Cloud
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Contemporary accounts of the Mysore embassy often remarked on the crowds that mobbed the delegation wherever it went. Here, the fashionable Parisians turned out to see them are dressed in British-made muslin, a pointed nod to the embassy’s informal mission to bypass Britain by negotiating direct trade with France. However, Tipu Sultan’s formal proposal for aid to remove the British from Mysore was ill timed. On the eve of the Revolution, neither military nor trade agreements between the two powers were feasible.
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