 In 1884 Lewenhaupt was transferred as envoy to Paris, and on 12 October 1889, he was called to the Foreign Minister.During this critical time, because of the tense Union international relations, Lewenhaupt proved keenly interested in coming to both countries reasonable settlement of the Union national contentious issues and on his initiative the Swedish government commented on 14 January 1893 for the wish, that the Foreign Minister also could under certain conditions be Norwegian.This in its time very controversial »Swedish offer» aroused much discontent among the Swedes, who kept the maintenance of Sweden's preferential rights in the Union, and received from that quarter on 1 June 1895 the notification that Lewenhaupt, as Foreign Minister, had been succeeded by Count Ludvig Douglas with great satisfaction.