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Silent Witnesses: The Waning of a Tradition...
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Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune
07-14-2001
The prices of Old Master drawings are up, and traditional collecting is down. The connoisseurs of yore desert the market, driven away by the most phenomenal inflation ever witnessed where art is concerned.Attending Christie's sale on Tuesday, where a small drawing of a horseman by Leonardo set the latest record for the artist at l8.14 million ($11.34 million), and Sotheby's a day later, where a sublime sketch by Michelangelo seemed to disappoint ever so slightly as it went for a petty l5.94 million, was both exhilarating and ...
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Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France. Robin Harris. London...Murray, 2007. 436 pp. $50.00. "Born in 1754, Charles Maurice De Talleyrand was an aristocrat and revolutionary now regarded as one...
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Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Benevent: Talleyrand. Memoires & correspondances.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography
; Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Benevent Talleyrand. Memoires & correspondances. Edition presented...Waresquiel, himself author of a remarkable biography of Talleyrand (Talleyrand, le prince immobile, Fayard, 2003...
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The indispensable Talleyrand.(Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand, Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Policy Review
; ...sterling]20.00 ROBIN HARRIS. Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France...Resistance, he went on to attack Charles de Gaulle for his imperiousness...Mitterrand is outclassed by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, whose career serves...
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A master of careful betrayal ; Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France by Robin Harris (John Murray, Pounds 30)
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; TALLEYRAND, that great symbol of betrayal in...hard one to do well. As a subject, Talleyrand has everything - politics, war...truths, brilliance and flaws of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand- Perigord himself. Yet Robin Harris...
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Sweeteners and silk stockings ; HISTORY ++ Talleyrand: Napoleon's Master ++ By David Lawday CAPE [pound]20
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...ecclesiastical and diplomatic career, Charles- Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord pursued the opposite...Still less ethically, Talleyrand expected to be paid well for...the letters were addressed to Talleyrand himself, as foreign minister...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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As with whist, so with politics; Talleyrand.(Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...talent for landing on his feet, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord was for cartoonists...would become friends again. Talleyrand rose late, dressed slowly...advantage. To his detractors, Talleyrand was a corrupt and immoral opportunist...
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Talleyrand: the old fraud.(book by Robin Harris entitled "Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France")(Book review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord, has been very well...and has no hesitation in hailing Talleyrand as a progressive statesman...radically different view, that Talleyrand was in fact one of the most revolting...
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 "St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)")
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COUVE DE MURVILLE, 92; MINISTER UNDER DE GAULLE.(News)(Obituary\Maurice Couve De Murville)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
; Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, who overtook Talleyrand as France's longest-serving foreign minister before...manners and dry wit, Mr. Couve de Murville was President Charles de Gaulle's foreign minister for 10 years running, still...
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Beware of Fair-Weather Friends.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...at it again. I call him the Talleyrand of Ghana politics in reference to the Frenchman, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord who lived from 1754...is popularly remembered as Talleyrand. In so doing, I am not attempting...
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Kasch treats two subjects: the first is Talleyrand; the second is everything else." The lengthy...the French Revolution, and in particular Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord. Talleyrand has had a bad press on the whole. The very...
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