“ The triumph of the republicans at the general election brought him back to power in the following December as minister of foreign affairs under Dufaure. He was one of the French plenipotentiaries at the Berlin Congress. The cession of Cyprus to Great Britain was at first denounced by the French newspapers as a great blow to his diplomacy, but he obtained, in a conversation with Lord Salisbury, a promise that Great Britain in return would allow France a free hand in Tunis. ”

“ In 1883 he accepted the London embassy, which he continued to hold till 1893, showing an exceptional tenacity in defence of his country’s interests. He died on the 13th of January 1894. His wife, an American lady, whose maiden name was Mary A. King, wrote some interesting recollections of their diplomatic experiences—Letters of a Diplomatist’s Wife, 1883–1900 (New York, 1903) , and Italian Letters (London, 1905) . ”