France has had a permanent embassy to the Ottoman Empire since 1535, during the time of King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. It is considered the direct predecessor of the modern-day embassy to the Republic of Turkey.
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“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
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