Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — FOOLED ALL FRANCE. [ARTICLE]

FOOLED ALL FRANCE.

Impostor Made Paris Believe,He Was Ambassador From Persia. Toward the end of tbe year 1714 a certain Mehemet Uizabecq, who called himself ambassador of the king of Persia, and the bearer of bis commands, disembarked at Marseilles, He was received at two leagues from Paris by the Baron de Breteuil, usher of ambassadors, and the Marshal de Matignon. On tbe 24ih of January, 1713, be made bis solemn entry into the capital with great pomp. He declined the royal carriages generally used on such occasions and entered on horseback, preceded by the finest horses of the king's stables, superbly caparisoned and accompanied by trumpets and bauds of music. The ambassador, richly arrayed in the Persian costume, was attended by a numerous train of domestics and preceded by a herald bearing the Persian standard. The presents which he offered to the king were very inconsiderable.

After passing a short time in France, during which he concluded. In the name of his pretended master, a treaty of alliance with Louis XIV., he sailed from Sweden and Denmark and was never heard of later.

Rizabecq. according to the “Memoirs of the Reign of Louia XIV.,” was a Portuguese who had never seen the prince he represented nor even visited a single province of Persia. The government paid tbe expenses of his excellency, which amounted to 1,000 Urres a day.—Mirror.