Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul, called Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, was a French diplomat and aristocrat from the Gouffier branch of the Choiseul family. A member of the Académie française, he served as French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1784 until the fall of the French monarchy and a scholar of ancient Greece.
Choiseul-Gouffier at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, where members of his entourage study archeological findings on site, 1787, painted by Louis-François Cassas
François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, was a French politician and diplomat during the Ancien Régime and French Revolution.
Reception ceremony of the Comte de Saint Priest at the Ottoman Porte, by Antoine de Favray, 1767.
M. de Saint-Priest with the Grand Vizier at the camp of Daud Pasha in 1769, by Antoine de Favray.
Malte, 1791