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Talleyrand by Duff Cooper. Reprint 1942. H/C. 399 pp.
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Duff Cooper's classic look at the life of legendary French diplomat Talleyrand.
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe-taker, Talleyrand's gifts to France arguably out-valued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service. Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Duff Cooper's classic biography contains all the vigour, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject.
First published 1932. This is the 16th reprint of 1942 by Jonathan Cape, London. Translated into many languages. Condition: Fair. Foxing and stains on many pages. All text readable. Cloth-covered hardboard stained. Spine edges ope