Word: whitelaw
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contents unusually varied and less stress is laid upon special articles than in many of the numbers of this year. Of chief interest to the historical student are the "Talleyrand Memoirs," the fourth installment of which appears in this month's number, with a brief introduction by Minister Whitelaw Reid. In it Talleyrand replies directly to his accusers, and denies categorically and with emphasis that he had anything to do with the execution of the Duc d'Enghien or with an alleged plot to assassinate Napoleon...
...extracts are printed from the advance sheets of the Memoirs of Talleyrand, which have been reserved from publication for fifty years since his death in order that all whom he spoke ill of might have time to die too. There is an introduction by the minister to France, Whitelaw Reid...