Talleyrand: the old fraud.(book by Robin Harris entitled "Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France")(Book review)

New Criterion | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord, has been very well served by biographers. Alfred Duff Cooper's 1932 life of the long-serving French politician and diplomat is an ornament of English letters, and since then four other impressive works have been written on the same subject. Like his distinguished predecessors, Robin Harris admires his subject and has no hesitation in hailing Talleyrand as a progressive statesman. (1) Fortunately, however, he also gives the reader plenty of evidence to support a radically different view, that Talleyrand was in fact one of the ...

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