Word: talleyrand
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...Talleyrand. The marriage, performed with the aid of blood rites, was everything Captain Pierre had hoped for: the devoted Ilouhi carried her husband's Tommy gun through the leech-infested rain forests, saved his life many times over, taught him the language, and initiated him into the secrets of the primitive hill tribes; as the "Father with white hair," exploiting his wife's tribal connections, he won the allies France needed...
...four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant General Rouvroy and the mistress of scoundrelly Jardinier, a British spy, black-marketeer and confidant of the great. On the night of Talleyrand's great ball for Napoleon and Josephine, the eyes of Rémi and Corinne meet across a crowded room: "He saw her catch her breath. The chocolate dropped from her fingers. Her hand went to the base of her lovely white throat; her brilliant eyes burned, a promise...
Died. The Marquis Jason Boniface de Castellane, 53, quiet-living, inconspicuous son of Railroad Heiress Anna Gould (now the Duchesse de Talleyrand-Perigord) and her first husband, the late Marquis Boni de Castellane; in Salernes, France...
...days of ruffled-shirt diplomacy, when Talleyrand and Prince Metternich were in 19th century flower, a diplomat needed a backstairs source in the palace, a talent for intrigue and a good cook. Big powers acted in concert, and the small powers were expected to know their place. The financial side of diplomacy was a relatively simple matter of buying allies or buying off potential enemies. In mid-20th century diplomacy, financial dealings must be disguised under such inoffensive names as mutual assistance, economic cooperation or foreign aid, and economic aid has increasingly become regarded as a debt that rich nations...
There have been many and varied answers, some old, some recent, some true, some wrong, some regretted. From an old U.S. China hand: "A sort of Chinese Talleyrand." From a fellow-traveling Indian diplomat: "A second Nehru!" From a onetime kingpin in the Chinese Communist movement: "A Chinese Molotov." Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have called him "a reasonable Communist." General George Marshall once spoke of him with "friendship and esteem" and thought him a man of his word...