Talleyrand : A Biography by Duff Cooper (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Description : Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any CharlesMaurice Prince de Talleyrand was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions He was a worldclass rogue who held high office in five successive regimes A wellknown opportunist and a notorious bribe taker Talleyrands 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 Coopers classic biography contains all the vigor elegance and intellect of its remarkable subject