Word: talleyrand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concluded his tirade. "You have never worthily performed a single duty. You have betrayed and deceived everybody. You would sell your own father. You are a mess of dung in a silk stocking." The Emperor stopped, red-faced; he was out of breath. For half an hour Talleyrand had leaned, graceful and impassive, against a small table by the fire. Now he moved. Slowly, easily, he limped across the great carpet and paused at the white paneled doors. "What a pity," he remarked, "that such a great man should be so ill bred." Quietly he turned the knob, and disappeared...
Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
...duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon...
...Emperor Napoleon, pausing to celebrate one of his perennial triumphs in the midst of carnage was holding a grand reception in Versailles and the splendour of a continent had gathered in homage. Talleyrand was there, with the ironical manner which caused the Emperor to assault him once in Fontainebleau, and the ambassador of Alexander of Russia. To him the Emperor was particularly gracious, for he was planning to betray his master. A nuncio from the Vatican moved remotely amid the revelry. In an ante-chamber the representative of his Brittannic Majesty cooled his heels neglected, anticipating a dozen Waterloos...
...time that is done have moved among us for a time with the life of contemporaries. Other and excellent lecturers there are at Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than a volume with footnotes. Castlereagh and Talleyrand, ravelling and unravelling the maze at Vienna, the first Napoleon and the third, playing with the bright counters of empire, Victoria with her angel and Bismarck with the door-knob in his hand;--we have hear about them often, but only known them once. We shall hear about them again...