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Talleyrand
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Duff Cooper
Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord was a statesman and diplomat prominent in all the different regimes that ruled France in the late-18th and early 19th centuries. He began his career as a court cleric and rose to become Bishop of Autun. This is his biography
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 18th 2001
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Though this biography of Talleyrand is more many that seven decades old, it is still readable and has lessons to teach us. Though Talleyrand was a wiley schemer, he did hold all of his career one constant diplomatic principle--that peace in Europe was beneficial for Western civilization (of which France was a part.) In keeping to this principle, he betrayed Napoleon by telling the Russian emperor what the French emperor was going to do--and how to check Napoleon's diplomatic manipulations. At...more
Diplomatic services of the late 18th and early 19th century are not much different from today. This was a topic that I thought would be boring, but Duff Cooper has written an excellent book. The man in question has probably helped make this exciting, but a good job well done by Cooper. I would highly recommend this book.
An almost effortlessly excellent biography by an author you've never heard of. Duff Cooper, an English aristocrat and diplomat in the 1920s, first published Talleyrand in 1932. Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was the most gifted statesman of his time – surviving Louis XVI, the French Revolution, Napoleon, only to dominate the Congress of Vienna. He was also a rogue, a club-foot, a connoisseur of wealth and women, and a great wit. Cooper does him justice, telling his story with verve and i...more
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