At the luncheon the Lord Mayor proposed the health of
the President, who observed in his reply that this was the third time in ten years that London had welcomed a French President. "Not a single incident arises of a nature to implicate international politics without the two Governments loyally exchanging their views, and that co-operation continues, which does not exclude the participation of any other Power and which tends, on the contrary, to the maintenance of the European understanding, and establishes between the United Kingdom and France a habit of fraternal confidence and common will." In the afternoon the President received a number of deputations representing municipal bodies and Franco-British societies, and in the evening he entertained the King and a distinguished company at the French Embassy.
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