A review of Talleyrand; Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris. Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord, has been very well served by biographers. Alfred Duff Cooper’s 1932 life of the ...
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 ...
Adam Zamoyski reviews Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday Talleyrand is a biographer's dream. The barely believable trajectory of the ancien-régime aristocrat who became a ...
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