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As with whist, so with politics; Talleyrand.(Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand)(Book review)
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September 30, 2006
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The great restrainer
LAME from birth, yet with a talent for landing on his feet, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord was for cartoonists a natural. As statesman and diplomat, he was at or never far from the centre of power through every upheaval that shook France--and Europe--between the fall of the Bastille and the collapse of the restored Bourbon monarchy in 1830.
The "prince with six heads", as one caricature nicely pictured him, was a bishop in the ancien regime, revolutionist in 1789, diplomat for Napoleon, minister to Louis XVIII and lastly--by ...
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