"Long live the Empire, long live Bonaparte, long live Franco-British friendship! Long live Franco-Austrian friendship!"
Amidst the deafening shouts of the soldiers, Emperor Jerome Bonaparte of the French Empire, dressed in a sky-blue double-breasted Lev's formal suit, wearing a cocked hat, draped with a red ribbon, slowly walked to the reviewing stand along with Prince Albert and his consort, Franz Joseph, as well as King William I of Württemberg, Grand Duke (Regent King) Friedrich I of Baden, senior military officers, and foreign envoys.
Shortly after Jerome Bonaparte and others arrived at the reviewing stand, the sound of salutes echoed from Concorde Square not far from Jerome Bonaparte, signaling the official start of the parade ceremony from that moment.
