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
outvalued 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 vigor, elegance, and
intellect of its remarkable subject.
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