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New Delhi, May 18
Tracing a slice of Himachal Pradesh in France, I&B Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday paid tributes to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, princess of Chamba Bannu Pan Dei and her husband General Jean Francois Allard within the scenic fishing port of St Tropez.
Thakur, who hails from Himachal Pradesh, provided flowers on the busts of the Maharaja, the princess of Chamba and Gen Allard at St Tropez, thought of as one of many jewels of the French Riviera.
Paid my respects to Maharaja Ranjit Singh ji, Gen. Allard & Rani Bannu Pan Dei ji, Princess of Chamba married to Gen. Allard of Maharaja’s military, invoking the connection b/w Himachal Pradesh & Saint Tropez, France ????.
| @IndiaembFrance | pic.twitter.com/uhw85roR07
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) May 18, 2022
Thakur was welcomed by the Mayor of St Tropez Sylvie Siri.
Gen Allard was one of many officers in Napoleon’s court docket and entered into the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and rose to command the maharaja’s military.
Allard can be credited with elevating the Fauj-i-Khas, a mannequin brigade within the strains of Napoleon’s military.
While in Punjab, Allard fell in love with the princess of Chamba and married her and took her to St Tropez in 1834.
Allard returned to Punjab and died in 1839 after a short sickness in Peshawar.
Bannu Pan Dei transformed to Christianity and continued to reside in a big home constructed by Allard in St Tropez. She handed away in 1884.
The busts of the Maharaja and Bannu Pan Dei had been unveiled in St Tropez in 2016 as a mark of rising India-France relationship.
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