Talleyrand
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780880640657 (0880640650)
Publish date: January 1st 1955
Publisher: Fromm International
Pages no: 399
Edition language: English
Talleyrand was the greatest statesman of his age, and his age was one of the most dangerously eventful in Europe's history. Such was his renown as the archetypally cunning diplomat that when his death was reported in 1838, the reaction of Metternich, his Austrian counterpart, was: ‘I wonder what he ...