page_title: James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
section_title: French peace missions
hierarchical_section_title: James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury / French Revolutionary War (1793 – 1797) / French peace missions
caption_attribution_description: Glorious reception of the Ambassador of Peace, on his entry into Paris - ' (James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury), by James Gillray (died 1815), published 1796. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
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  James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, GCB was an English diplomat.
context_section_description: In 1796 and 1797 he was in Paris vainly negotiating with the French Directory, and then in Lille in summer 1797 for equally fruitless negotiations with the Directory's plenipotentiaries Hugues-Bernard Maret, Georges René Le Peley de Pléville and Etienne Louis François Honoré Letourner.
  Due to bad roads in France, Malmesbury reached Paris on 22 October 1796, a week after leaving London. This led the foremost opponent of peace with France, Edmund Burke, to quip that his journey was slow because "he went the whole way on his knees".
caption: Glorious reception of the Ambassador of Peace, on his entry into Paris by James Gillray (1796).
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