Article: The indispensable Talleyrand.(Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand, Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France)(Book review)

Article: Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince ...
The Historian;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday. (New York, N.Y.: Saint ... primarily on Talleyrand's relationship with Napoleon, fifteen years his junior. Napoleon valued Talleyrand's skills in converting military ...

Article: Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince ...
History Today;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Napoleon's Master A Life of Prince Talleyrand David Lawday Jonathan Cape 386pp ... the rise--and fall--of Napoleon, the restoration of the monarchy ... Brumaire in 1799 that brought Napoleon to power, and over many years ...

Article: As with whist, so with politics; Talleyrand.(Napoleon's ...
The Economist (US);  September 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... him limping along beside Napoleon's former police chief ... though not uncritically. "Napoleon's Master" dwells particularly ... most sociable diplomat. Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday.

Article: French connection: Philip Ziegler tells how a chance invitation ...
History Today;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... statesman of his age and the man who, if Napoleon had only been prepared to listen to ... child. She devoted herself entirely to Prince Talleyrand and acted as his hostess when he became ... a peripheral figure in the life of Prince Talleyrand, now she took centre stage. I would ...

Article: Biography Talleyrand, one of history's great men, deserves a ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand BY DAVID LAWDAY JONATHAN CAPE ... prominent revolutionary, then Napoleon's foreign minister, then restorer ... slangy language. Talleyrand and Napoleon have 'bust-ups', the Chteau ...

Article: Epic passions for the past ; History
The Independent - London;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Sometimes it's a single, perhaps unduly neglected, individual, as with David Lawday's examination of Prince Talleyrand, Napoleon's Master (Cape, [pound]20 ). Obviously, putting Talleyrand in the main title was thought to be commercial ...

Article: In Philadelphia, the Passion of Delacroix
The Washington Post;  September 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... wobbling in the age of Delacroix. He was 17 years old when Napoleon lost at Waterloo. His nation had already tried an absolutist ... Louis XV at Versailles; his mother had been very close to Prince Talleyrand, the diplomat; his father had been Bonaparte's envoy ...