Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions.
Duff Cooper\'s classic biography contains all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject..
Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna.
Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States.
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.
He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes.
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions
