Reich Chancellor Heinrich Bruening during a state visit to France. The Franco-German ministerial consultations serve as preparation to the forthcoming London's seven-power conference on the dramatic financial situation of the German Reich. Standing in font from left: the French Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, the French Prime Minister Pierre Laval, Heinrich Bruening, the French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, right behind the French Ambassador Francois Poncet, German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, the French Budget Minister Francois Pietri and the Secretary General of the French Foreign Ministry Philippe Berthelot in the office room of the French Prime Minister in Paris.
