Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life of Prince Talleyrand, Vol. 1: Accompanied With a Portrait
Family council Lettre de cachet - Resemblance to Mirabeau Effect of captivity - Pardonable hypocrisy - The chaplain of Vincennes - Well acted comedy - Exit from prison Taking orders - Lomenie de Brienne - Abbé de Clermont tonnerre-seminary of St. Sulpice - Madame Du Barry's Boudoir - The Abbé de Perigord at a good school - Two church-livings granted to him at once - Consequence of a first ban mot - Protection of Louis XV - The difference between Oh, Oh 1 and ah, ah l - The president's wife - Love at home - Well calculated retreat - Consolations in solitude - The marchioness and two rivals brought to agree - Burgundy ladies - The hostess of the Petit Versailles - Return to Paris - Bees and women - Epigram and female revenge - Gauchier the brother - Honourable satisfaction - Dreaded consequences - The Pope's nuncio and Louis XVI - Reproof at the archiepiscopal palace - False recon ciliation and the revenge of a priest - Six lodgings at the same time in Paris House in the suburbs - Flamand, the valet de chambre, turned into a court rake by superior orders - Great nightly scandal - Separation - Exile at Autun - The life Of a pro?igate man and the death of a female saint.
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