Sometimes You Do Mind the End of the World

Talleyrand was a French diplomat who survived all the way from before the Revolution to Napoleon’s reign. His biography is called Talleyrand: The Art of Survival. Therein I read these words: [Mirabeau’s] death left an ever-widening gulf between the throne and the radicals into which the nation was about to be violently swept. Talleyrand hoped […]

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