Throughout his ecclesiastical and diplomatic career, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord pursued the opposite of what would nowadays be considered an ethical foreign policy. For one thing, he ...

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MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Edited, with a Preface and Notes, by the Duc de Broglie. Translated by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort. With an Introduction by Whitelaw Reid. New York: G. P. Putnam's ...

Napoleon Bonaparte and his chief diplomat, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, are usually seen as the oddest of history’s odd couples. One personified boldness, ambition and overblown operatic passion; ...

“ONE thing that makes me wonder whether there is any God presiding over the affairs of man is the fact that while good people perish, evil men flourish. Take for instance, Talleyrand. He is most ...

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