Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofp02colm Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55347 REMINISCENCES OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND. Edited from the Papers of the Late M. COLMACHE, Private Secretary to the Prince, by Madame Colmache. In Two Volumes. VOL. II. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. 1848. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Duc D’Aiguillon and Madame Dubarri—Talleyrand’s return from America—Chénier, Madame de Staël, and Madame de la Bouchardie 1 CHAPTER II. The Abbé Cerutti 48 CHAPTER III. The Salons of Paris before the Revolution 92 CHAPTER IV. Talleyrand’s Boudoir—Portraits—Madame de Brionne—Madame de Flahaut—A Gambling Scene—The Chevalier de Fénélon—Madame Grandt—Princess Talleyrand 118 CHAPTER V. Talleyrand’s desire for Amity between England and France—Louis Dixhuit—The Archbishop de M.—Madame de Krudener—Alexander of Russia 179 CHAPTER VI. The last Moments of Prince Talleyrand 232 EXTRACTS FROM PRINCE TALLEYRAND’S MANUSCRIPTS, SPEECHES, & POLITICAL WRITINGS. Prince Talleyrand’s Maxims for Seasoning Conversation 261 Prince Talleyrand’s Opinion of Fox 270 Private Letter from Prince Talleyrand to Marshal Sebastiani, on the Policy of suffering Belgium to be created an Independent Monarchy 276 From Prince Talleyrand to Marshal Sebastiani, on the same subject as the preceding 280 Letter from Prince Talleyrand to Count Sebastiani, on the Affairs of Belgium 284 Observations on the Trial of Peers by the Chamber of Peers, and the Reasons on which Talleyrand Grounded his Vote in the Affair of Lieutenants-General Guilleminot and Bordesoulle 289 Another Fragment from Prince Talleyrand’s Memoirs 296 Letter to his Majesty King William IV., from Prince Talleyrand, on his being appointed Ambassador from France 306 Opinion of Prince Talleyrand on the Plan of Law Relative to Journals and Periodical Publications 307 Opinion of the Bishop of Autun on the Subject of Ecclesiastical Property, Delivered in the National Assembly in the Year 1789 317