26 to apprehend Mademoiselle d’Epinay and escort her to a suitable and secure location until further instructions were received. By August 30, Mohammad Reza Bey had already begun his journey, arriving in Rouen on the evening of September 2. He stayed in the city, keeping the chest of religious books at his residence, surrounded by ministers who had come to bid him farewell. However, the agents sent by the French government to apprehend Mademoiselle d’Epinay did not reach Rouen, as their orders were delayed amid the chaos following the death of King Louis XIV. The ministers and French officials who had accompanied Mohammad Reza Bey in Rouen returned to Paris, preoccupied with the profound loss of the French monarch,
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