Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand
by Lawday, David
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0224073664
- ISBN 13
- 9780224073660
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London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2006. New book, 386 pages. He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy, and an alarmingly straight face, and he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story of Prince Talleyrand, who attracted as much scorn as Napoleon wins glory. To his critics, the arch-aristocrat who delivered France and Europe from the Emperor's follies is the prince of vice - turncoat, hypocrite, liar, plotter, God-baiter and womaniser, and to make matters worse, highly successful at them all. The richly flawed and abundantly gifted character laid bare by this book is the man to whom diplomats continue to look today for the subtlest tricks of the negotiator's art. A good 150 years before the a united Europe came into being, Talleyrand's actions laid the ground for it - as they have for a permanent peace now enduring for two centuries between France and her oldest enemy, Britain.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Viceroy Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand
- Author
- Lawday, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0224073664
- ISBN 13
- 9780224073660
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- HISTORY EUROPE NAPOLEON TALLEYRAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Napoleonic History;
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