I. THE TRAINING OF A DIPLOMATIST 1 II. THE ABBÉ MALGRÉ LUI 16 III. PRIEST AND BISHOP 38 IV. AT THE STATES GENERAL 56 V. THE BREACH WITH THE CHURCH 80 VI. CITIZEN TALLEYRAND 101 VII. EXILE 121 VIII. THE REGENERATED PARIS 141 IX. ENTER NAPOLEON 165 X. WAR AND DIPLOMACY 177 XI. THE RESTORATION OF RELIGION 200 XII. THE RENEWAL OF WAR 223 XIII. AWAY FROM NAPOLEON 251 XIV. THE RESTORATION 281 XV. A DIPLOMATIC ROMANCE 303 XVI. THE “FOREIGNERS OF THE INTERIOR” 326 XVII. THE LAST ACT 349 BIBLIOGRAPHY This Study is chiefly based on the following Works: 1. Talleyrand’s “Mémoires” (edit, de Broglie, 5 volumes); Official Correspondence from London in 1792, during the Directoire, during the Vienna Congress, and from London in 1830-4 (edit. Pallain); Letters to Napoleon, Mme. Adélaide, D’Hauterive, Choiseul-Gouffier, the Duchess of Courland, Bacourt, Royer-Collard, Guizot, and others; and his separately published Speeches and other Documents. 2. “Procès-verbal Historique des Actes du Clergé;” “Procès-verbal de l’Assemblée Nationale;” “Histoire Parlementaire” (Bouchez et Roux); and the Memoirs or Letters of Arnault, Barante, Carnot, Consalvi, von Gagern, Mme. de Genlis, Guizot, Lauzun, Las Cases, Macdonald, Meneval, Miot de Melito, Morellet, Napoleon, Pasquier, Mme. de Rémusat, Savary, Senfft, and Stapfer. 3. Of Biographies or Biographical Sketches of Talleyrand the chief are those by Lady Blennerhassett (the first authority on his diplomatic career), Brougham, Castellane, Castille, Lacombe (the best authority on his ecclesiastical career), Sir H. Bulwer Lytton (a very generous but imperfectly informed study), Mignet, Montarlot, and Place et Florens. The following writers are too imaginative or too prejudiced to be of much value: Bastide, Colmache, Marcade, Michaud, Pichot, Sainte-Beuve, Sallé, Stewartson, Touchard-Lafosse, Vars, and Villemarest.