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...ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess Boni de Castellane from 1895 to 1905, but now Princesse de Sagan and Duchesse de Talleyrand. Count Boni de Castellane, who has not yet obtained a Roman Catholic annulment and therefore cannot marry again, is a famed disconsolate character in Paris, where he lives with a famed bull...
Another section is devoted to Talleyrand's niece-by marriage-the beautiful Dorothee de Courland, Duchesse de Dino, and his grand-niece Pauline; and his respective relations with these relations are discuss with guto...
...part played by Mme de Stael in assisting Talleyrand during his exile in obtaining permission for his return to France, and in elevating him to the post of Foreign Minister, is also told without abridgement...
...page 386 a succinct paragraph sweetly declares that to present the next forty years in which Talleyrand was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Consulate; during the Empire; at Vienna; and under Louis XVIII;- "Would entail the survey of the history of France and Europe during the period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
...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, New York and Boston is of especial interest to American readers...