The Giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1825-12 January 1845) was a female giraffe in a menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years in the early 19th century. She was one of the first three giraffes to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, since the Medici giraffe was sent to Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in 1486.
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