Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary in the picture frame

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Much to her disgust, Mohammad Reza was “fascinated with this diabolical Swiss” who professed to be a “philosopher, poet, and a prophet”; the two men met every morning to discuss all the affairs of state in French as Perron was the man whose advice the Shah valued the most, and, as Soraya soon learned, other matters were discussed as well.

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