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...Louis Philippe, who genially reminded him of former oaths of allegiance under other masters, it is reported that Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, on swearing loyalty in 1830, replied, "Sire, you are the thirteenth!" This little folk-tale, though exaggerated in fact, is quite accurate in spirit, and its spirit has given rise to the fitting title of Crane Brinton's highly readable biography, "The Lives of Talleyrand...
...Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, aged four, slipped off a chest of drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often...
Physicians told the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane ("Count Boni"), onetime husband of the onetime Anna Gould who became later the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord & Duchess de Sagan, that his paralysis would end with death. Two weeks ago he bade come to his bedside at a set hour many friends, a priest. From his friends he received adieus, from the priest the church's last rites. Then he waited for Death...
While many peasants thus employ their own pigs for the digging, others subscribe to the new commercialism and turn the work over to owners of herds of digging pigs. Last week these herdowners began their annual tour of Perigord, Carcassone, Florae, great truffle centres all, to make bookings for their pigs for the five-month period beginning in November...
Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...