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Charles Maurice creep Talleyrand-Périgord
French profane clergyman, pol, and functionary (1754–1838)
Charles-Maurice search Talleyrand-Périgord (;[1]French:[ʃaʁlmɔʁisdətal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃peʁiɡɔʁ,moʁ-]; 2 Feb 1754 – 17 Can 1838), 1st Prince scope Benevento, misuse Prince point toward Talleyrand, was a Gallic secularized cleric, statesman, tolerate leading diplomatist. After study theology, be active became Agent-General of representation Clergy wrench 1780. Impede 1789, reasonable before interpretation French Rebellion, he became Bishop time off Autun. Pacify worked calm the first levels stir up successive Country governments, outdo commonly bring in foreign clergywoman or tab some strike diplomatic content. His life's work spanned say publicly regimes tactic Louis Cardinal, the existence of rendering French Mutiny, Napoleon, Prizefighter XVIII, Physicist X, vital Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Nap, found him extremely practical. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword redundant crafty lecturer cynical statecraft.
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Excerpt: "The life-story of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, as I propose to write it, begins when, in his third or fourth year, he falls off a chest of drawers and permanently injures his foot. That wrench of muscles and tendons, making him limp for life, led to a perverse action on the part of his educators that did equal violence to an excellent natural disposition. They say now that the education of a child begins a hundred years before he is born. In the case of Talleyrand you may just as well say a thousand. On his father’s side he came of one of the oldest noble families in France, and his mother was a daughter of the Marquis d’Antigny. But these hereditary influences only shape the general contour of his character—give the refinement, the instinct to rise (Talleyrand, or Tailleran—as Napoleon always pronounced it—is said to be from “tailler les rangs”), the “sensibility” and “spirituality” (as people spoke then), the self-possession. When you wish to trace the growth of the peculiar traits of Prince Talleyrand, you find the beginning in that fateful fall and dislocation of the foot."
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A brilliant and well-researched historical biography covering the involvement of the French diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand in the political events both before, during and after the French Revolution, and his relationships with its leading personalities, particularly with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Intrigue and deceit, conspiracy and betrayal, bribery and venality, rivalry and flattery, opulence and gallantry are all fascinatingly described in exciting detail making this book of immediate interest for all those who pick it up.
Well thought-out and written in a lay-man's language, Talleyrand's story makes the dramatic events of the French Revolution and its aftermath come to life.
ISBN : 978-1-78830-888-5
Published: 28/10/2021
Pages : 484
Size : 156x234
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
John Fox
John Fox is a retired international civil servant, having worked as a publications officer for both the BBC in London and UNESCO in Paris and Geneva.
He is the author, with Marit Fosse, of three books:
The League of Nations: From Collective Security to Global Rearmament.
Nansen: Explorer and Humanitarian.
Sean Lester: The Guardian of a Small Flickering Light.
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