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"The word that will best capture the day is 'splendour'," said an insider of the Elysée closely involved with the restoration.

“Compact yet beautifully expansive, Orbital invites us to observe the Earth’s splendour, whilst reflecting on the individual and collective value of every human life,” the Booker Prize judges wrote.

Once tipped as a future world leader by Time magazine, Jay was later installed in splendour as Her Majesty's ambassador to the US.

With pomp and splendour, China has welcomed more than 50 Africans leaders to Beijing this week for a summit to strengthen ties at a time of increasing political and economic turmoil around the world.

Charles II used them to find details "to add lustre and splendour to the solemnity" of his crowning in 1661.