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Article: Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2009
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Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. By David Lawday. (New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 386. $26.95.)
The author of this biography of Talleyrand, France's leading diplomat during the revolutionary and Napoleonic era and one of the main architects of the Vienna peace settlement, makes no pretense of providing a new perspective on its subject. David Lawday echoes earlier biographers in tracing the twists and turns of Talleyrand's life, which saw him adapt and survive under successive regimes from the ancien regime to the July Monarchy. Lawday also retells the well-known story of Talleyrand's complicated private life, whose highlights ...