Description: Talleyrand In America as a Financial Promoter 1794-1796Unpublished Letters and MemoirsHuth, Hans and Pugh, Wilma J., Translators and EditorsPublished by United States Printing Office, Washington, 1942 Condition info: Published by United States Printing Office, Washington, 1942. Stated Volume II of the Annual Report of the American Historical Association.Cloth. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex-Library Bowdoin College with its bookplate pasted to front pastedown, library labels on front cover and front pastedown, college library blindstamp on title page. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. Packaged with care and shipped with delivery confirmation. If you are not satisfied with the condition of the book, please return the item for a refund.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand (1754–1838) was a French diplomat. He worked successfully at the highest level (usually as Foreign Minister) for the regime of Louis XVI, through several governments of the French Revolution and then for Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe. Most of them distrusted Talleyrand but, like Napoleon, found him indispensable. He was known simply as Talleyrand, which has become a synonym for crafty, cynical diplomacy.He was Napoleon's chief diplomatic aide in the conquest of Europe. Most of the time, however, he worked for peace so as to consolidate France's gains. He succeeded in obtaining peace with Austria in the 1801 Treaty of Luneville and with Britain in the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. He could not stop the renewal of war in 1803. By 1805 he opposed his emperor's renewed wars against Austria, Prussia, and Russia in 1805-1806; he resigned as foreign minister in August 1807 but Napoleon still trusted him. Talleyrand connived to undermine Napoleon's plans and secretly dealt with Tsar Alexander of Russia and the Austrian minister Metternich. He was seeking a negotiated secure peace so as to perpetuate the gains of the French revolution. But Napoleon rejected peace and when he fell in 1814, Talleyrand took charge of the Bourbon restoration based on the principle of legitimacy. He played a major role at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815, where he negotiated a favorable settlement for France while undoing Napoleon's conquests.Talleyrand polarizes scholarly opinion. Some regard him as one of the most versatile, skilled and influential diplomats in European history, and some believe that he was a traitor, betraying in turn, the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration.He was the uncle of Alexandre-Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord and the granduncle of Alexandre-Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.These numerous letters and correspondences shed much light on Tallyrand's dealings with North America at the time.
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Author: Hans Huth
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