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Document Reference	Bu 48/122
Title	Copy letter from 2nd Earl Granville [G.Leveson-Gower], Foreign Office, London, to 2nd Baron Lyons [R. Lyons, later 1st Earl Lyons], Tours, France; 19 Dec 1870
Date	19 December 1870
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that both the Russian and Prussian Governments are pressing for the Conference to be held as soon as possible, whether France takes part in it or not; the British Government wishes France to take part; but he should explain to the Count de Chaudordy that the issue is so important that the British Government does not wish to jeopardize that conference.
Term	treaties, Treaty of Paris 1856, Russian repudiation
Term	military campaigns, Franco-Prussian War 1870-1

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA7552	Chaudordy; Jean-Baptiste (1824-1899); Count; French diplomat and statesman	1824-1899
NA6137	Gower; Granville G. Leveson- (1815-1891); 2nd Earl Granville; diplomat M.P. statesman	1815-1891
NA6041	Lyons; Richard B.P. (1817-1887); 1st Earl Lyons; 2nd Baron Lyons cr. viscount 1881 and earl 1887; diplomat	1817-1887