Word: erfurt
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...justice, it must be admitted that this life contains some extraordinarily interesting sidelights on history. Isolated episodes such as the death of Louis XV, the meeting of the Estates General, the assemblage on the Champs de Mars; the detention of Spanish Princes, and the Council of Erfurt, are told with a wealth of colorful detail not to be found in the more authentic histories. The story of Talleyrand's two years in American from 1792 to 1794, after he had been successively exiled from France and from England, with accounts of his visiting to various Revolutionary celebrities in Philadelphia, Albany...