Talleyrand

A Biographical Study

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Talleyrand: A Biographical Study is a book by Joseph McCabe. The preface says Sainte-Beuve, after an attempt that one cannot describe as successful, declared that it is hardly possible to write the life of M. de Talleyrand. The preface says Carlyle pronounced Talleyrand one of the strangest things ever seen or like to be seen, an enigma for future ages.

The text records that the superior corrected Talleyrand, saying Trompette, and that Talleyrand coolly repeated the passage and was again corrected. The text notes the range beyond Europe of the extraordinary activity of Napoleon and Talleyrand, saying treaties were concluded with Turkey, Algeria and Tunis. The text describes the Prince seated on the edge of the bed, supported by two servants, a dying lion according to one witness, while all Paris waits in the adjoining room.