C. 1891 Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand; De Broglie

Description: Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand. Edited by The Duc de Broglie, Introducted by Whitelaw Reid. Volumes I - V. Complete Set. Printed by The Grolier Society, London. C. 1891. Vols. I, II, III, & V are Limited Edition; Vol. IV is Édition de Luxe. Limited to 1,000 Copies. Uniform cloth binding, 9 x 6", 8vos. In good condition. Light blue cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines rubbed. Top edges gilt. Fore-edges deckled. Text-blocks normally toned; mostly around edges of leaves. Most tissue guards exhibit off-setting from their respective plates. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754 – 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularised clergyman, statesman and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy. Complete Set. Limited Edition. FORN-SHELF-0635-BB-0524-HK1606

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