Talleyrand: A Biographical Study (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Excerpt: 'The life-story of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, as I propose to write it, begins when, in his third or fourth year, he falls off a chest of drawers and permanently injures his foot. That wrench of muscles and tendons, making him limp for...
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Excerpt: 'The life-story of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, as I propose to write it, begins when, in his third or fourth year, he falls off a chest of drawers and permanently injures his foot. That wrench of muscles and tendons, making him limp for life, led to a perverse action on the part of his educators that did equal violence to an excellent natural disposition. They say now that the education of a child begins a hundred years before he is born. In the case of Talleyrand you may just as well say a thousand. On his father's side he came of one of the oldest noble families in France, and his mother was a daughter of the Marquis d'Antigny. But these hereditary influences only shape the general contour of his character-give the refinement, the instinct to rise (Talleyrand, or Tailleran-as Napoleon always pronounced it-is said to be from "tailler les rangs"), the "sensibility" and "spirituality" (as people spoke then), the self-possession. When you wish to trace the growth of the peculiar traits of Prince Talleyrand, you find the beginning in that fateful fall and dislocation of the foot.'
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- Autor: Joseph McCabe
- 2021, 1. Auflage, 264 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Otbebookpublishing
- ISBN-10: 398531358X
- ISBN-13: 9783985313587
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2021
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