Word: talleyrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call your attention, and the author's, to Volume 5 of the Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand (A. Hall, 1891-92), where reference is made to the fact that while in office M. de Silhouette showed symptoms of insanity: "This Minister gave his name to those drawings which represent a profile traced round the shadow of a face . . . One of his chief amusements was tracing such portraits on the walls of his chateau, which were soon covered with them. Society did not fail to turn this little diversion into ridicule, and called the drawings by the name...