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CHAPTER XVII
the tragic week
The first day of the "tragic week" coincided in
Stockholm with the official reception of the President of the
French Republic, and the festivities that had been
arranged for this reception.
The President was only to stay one day in Stockholm.
As the armoured cruiser which brought the Head of the
French State could not berth alongside, but had to
anchor two or three kilometres outside, King Gustaf V.
embarked at the hour appointed to fetch his guest
and conduct him to the Royal Castle in a gondola with
twelve pairs of oars, dating from the eighteenth century
and richly decorated in the Louis XV. style.
The foreign Ministers were to be presented to the
President during the day, and were invited to the great
banquet at the Palace, where all the political and social
notabilities of Stockholm would be gathered round the
King and his French guests. After the banquet there
was a concert given by the Swedish choral societies, and
late in the evening the President and his suite left,
escorted by torch-bearers. As the Diplomatic Corps did
not take part in the actual reception of the President,
all the members of the Corps and all distinguished
foreigners were invited to watch his arrival from the
garden of the Castle. The reception was favoured by
splendid weather.
When we assembled in the garden, the terraces of
which overhang the arm of the sea by which the State
gondola was to arrive, one was immediately concious of
the great constraint which the news of the day before
had caused among the assembly.
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