Author: ORIEUX, JEAN
Title: Talleyrand: The Art of Survival
Description: NY: Alfred A, Knopf, 1974. 0394472993. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394472993. First American Edition (stated), First Printing. Bound in publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and armorial decoration on spine, blind-stamped armorial medallion on cover, top edge yellow, fore-edge deckle, genealogical charts on endpapers. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. Translated from the French by Patricia Wolf. Includes Notes, Bibliography and a detailed Index. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente (1754-1838) the "Prince of Diplomats" was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime of Louis XVI, through the French Revolution and then under Napoleon I, Louis XVIII and Louis-Philippe. Known since the turn of the 19th century simply by the name Talleyrand, he is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and influential diplomats in European history. For half a century he was the mastermind of the French state, and for the eighty-four years of his life he was a figure of infinite fascination, embodying, and to an extraordinary extent directing, the most tumultuous era in French history. This definitive biography has received the highest praise from the community for French historians and literary critics. Henri Petit, in Parisien Libere, called it "A work of the first importance which one reads with as much passionate interest as one would read a novel." The author, Jean Orieux (1907-1990), has been described as "Certainly the best (then) living French biographer." - Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace. The volume is in excellent condition, with no ownership marks, seemingly unread, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) has mild shelf-wear chipping along the edges and a couple of small closed tears, else near fine. A large, heavy book (four pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. FINE/VERY GOOD. Photographs and Rproductions. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xii, 677, xxiii, (1) pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394472993 Biography Talleyrand Napoleon French Empire History History Biography & Memoir Napoleon
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Title: Talleyrand: The Art of Survival
Description: NY: Alfred A, Knopf, 1974. 0394472993. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394472993. First American Edition (stated), First Printing. Bound in publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and armorial decoration on spine, blind-stamped armorial medallion on cover, top edge yellow, fore-edge deckle, genealogical charts on endpapers. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. Translated from the French by Patricia Wolf. Includes Notes, Bibliography and a detailed Index. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente (1754-1838) the "Prince of Diplomats" was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime of Louis XVI, through the French Revolution and then under Napoleon I, Louis XVIII and Louis-Philippe. Known since the turn of the 19th century simply by the name Talleyrand, he is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and influential diplomats in European history. For half a century he was the mastermind of the French state, and for the eighty-four years of his life he was a figure of infinite fascination, embodying, and to an extraordinary extent directing, the most tumultuous era in French history. This definitive biography has received the highest praise from the community for French historians and literary critics. Henri Petit, in Parisien Libere, called it "A work of the first importance which one reads with as much passionate interest as one would read a novel." The author, Jean Orieux (1907-1990), has been described as "Certainly the best (then) living French biographer." - Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace. The volume is in excellent condition, with no ownership marks, seemingly unread, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket (now in Mylar) has mild shelf-wear chipping along the edges and a couple of small closed tears, else near fine. A large, heavy book (four pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. FINE/VERY GOOD. Photographs and Rproductions. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xii, 677, xxiii, (1) pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394472993 Biography Talleyrand Napoleon French Empire History History Biography & Memoir Napoleon
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- Book number: 29735
- Book number: 29735
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