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Talleyrand by Duff Cooper

An aristocrat who became a revolutionary; a churchman with a string of mistresses and an addiction to gambling; a trusted minister of Napoleon – this extraordinary figure whose blazing career survived five successive regimes is known to history simply as Talleyrand. Born in 1754 to one of France’s grand families and destined for the Church, Talleyrand was swept into the Revolution, then exiled, but returned to serve the Directorate. He was instrumental in the coup that brought Napoleon to power, but went on to betray him to restore the Bourbon monarchy. Although ofen reviled as a ‘traitor’, Talleyrand only ever served one mistress, France: ‘I never abandoned a regime, until it abandoned itself’.

Features;

• Folio Society First Edition
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2010
• Quarter Black Buckram with Printed Paper Sides Hardback, 326 pp
• With 24 pages of colour and black & white plates.
• Size 240 x 160mm, 1.3kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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