April 12, 2024
FOLIO Society TALLEYRAND by Duff Cooper Fine in Slipcase As NEW Scarce
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This is one title of a sizable collection of FOLIO SOCIETY books we have recently acquired. Folio Society is a Book Club publisher of fine books located in London that has been producing beautifully bound and illustrated books for decades. For geographical reasons, their books are extremely popular in the United Kingdom but somewhat scarcer here in the States. For more information, check them out at This is a splendid copy of "TALLEYRAND", by Duff Cooper. Was Talleyrand the most interesting man in the world ? Quite possibly "yes", in his time, anyway. Book description: Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's gifts to France arguably outvalued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service. Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Duff Cooper's classic biography contains all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject. 326 pages. 44 stunning full colour
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