Show napoleon and victoria the visit of president loubet to london was the first act of the kind by a chief of the state in france since napoleon III went to windsor in april 1885 during the crimean war at the invitation of queen victoria whose nominal object in seeing her imperial ally was to confer with him on his project distasteful to her and her ministers of going out to sebast pol himself to assume command of the allied armies the french emperor was received with every mark ot honor at windsor and invested with the order of the garter but the queen gained her point and the em geror abandoned his intentions of eo ing to the crimea |