Author: COOPER, DUFF.
Title: Talleyrand.
Description: Demy 8vo; pp. 399; portrait frontispiece, bibliography and notes, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. London; Phoenix; 1997. "Charles-Maurice, prince de Talleytand was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. Bishop and libertine, iconoclast and institution, he was a turncoat who could hold high office in five successive regimes, yet maintain one constant policy for half a century; a notorious bribe-taker whose gifts to France arguably out valued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service."

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