__ __ The Dinner of the Sovereigns in Ismailia by Edouard Riou (Association du Souvenir de Ferdinand de Lesseps et du Canal de Suez). Facing, from left to right: the Russian Ambassador, the wife of the British Ambassador, The Emperor of Austria, the Empress Eugénie, the Prince Royal of Prussia, the wife of the Russian Ambassador, the British Ambassador. Facing away, from left to right: Mme X, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Mme. de la Poëze, Matron of Honour of the Empress Eugénie, the Prince of the Netherlands, the Khedive Ismail, the Princess of the Netherlands.