Talleyrand (Grove Great Lives) - Softcover

Cooper, Duff

 
9780802137678: Talleyrand (Grove Great Lives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802137679 ISBN 13: 9780802137678
Verlag: Grove Press, 2001

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“If biography is to be defined as 'the history of an individual conceived as a work of art,' then Mr. Duff Cooper’s book would serve as an exhibit.” —Harold Nicolson

Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a diplomat and statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. At once bishop and libertine, iconoclast and traditionalist, he made himself indispensable and held high office in five successive reigns.

From the Revolutionary regime, through exile in America, to new eminence under Napoleon, Talleyrand plotted his way to the restoration of the Bourbons and his own crowning achievement—winning an effective voice for France in the settlement of Europe at the Congress of Vienna—and served a further twenty years before he retired, at eighty, under the constitutional monarchy of Louis Philippe.

Duff Cooper’s classic biography charts his fascinating, checkered career with all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject.

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Verlag
Grove Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802137679
ISBN 13 
9780802137678
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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