The State Drive of Their Majesties the King and Queen through Paris on July 19 was, incidentally, described io the BBC's Arabic listeners in a special commentary—the first occasion on which one of the BBC's foreign-language commentators has broadcast from outside England. The Arabic commentator spoke from a point at the corner of the Place de la Concorde—his English colleague being on the opposite corner—from which he was able to see the route of the procession from the Are de Triomphe, down the Champs Elysees and across the Place de la Concorde to the Pont de la Concorde.
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