XEE4164608: Paris, 1827: entrance into the city of the giraffe offered by the vice king of Egypt Mehemet Ali (or Mehemet-Ali) to the king of France Charles X. It will be the first giraffe of the Jardin des Plantes. Illustration of Damblans a “” Le Pelerin”” of December 11, 1927., Damblans, Eugene (1865-1945) / Bridgeman Images