Word: talleyrand
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...June Century presents a table of 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...
...Century bill-of-fare for March is varied enough to suit the most captious magazine reader. Unusually entertaining is the third installment of the famous Talleyrand Memoirs, containing, as it does, comments on the luxury and vice of Napoleon's court, which derive a peculiar flavor, coming, as they do, from the pen of Talley-rand...
...February number of The Century devotes a considerable space to the second installment from Talleyrand's memoirs. This section is devoted to Talleyrand and Napoleon...
...number is particularly fertile in portraits serving to illustrate also three other articles; one by ExPostmaster General Thomas L. James on the Welsh in the United States; one by C. B. Moore on "Amateur Portraiture in Photography;" one by H. De Barry on "Prince Talleyrand and his Memoirs" and one by William Pole on an episode connected with the life of the composer Mozart...
...Rockhill continues the account of his trip through untrodden China. and 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...