In his first major position, Carême worked as chef de cuisine to Talleyrand who actively encouraged Carême in the development of a new refined food style using herbs and fresh vegetable, simplified sauces with few ingredients.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

Artois, Berry and Angoulême were purged from the new " ministère ", and Talleyrand was appointed as the first Président du Conseil, i. e. Prime Minister of France.

His negotiators, his brother Joseph and Talleyrand, constantly shifted their positions, leaving Cornwallis to write, " I feel it as the most unpleasant circumstance attending this unpleasant business that, after I have obtained his acquiescence on any point, I can have no confidence that it is finally settled and that he will not recede from it in our next conversation.

He acquired his knowledge of the men and intrigues of the Napoleonic epoch from Talleyrand.

Talleyrand ( temporarily ) renamed the bridge after the French Grand Army, which dissuaded them from doing so.

In the end, through the interventions of Joseph Fouché and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, he was appointed consul at Alicante, and remained there until he lost the sight of one eye from yellow fever.

Talleyrand sought from the commissioners an explanation for a speech Adams had made in May that had angered Directory members ; this was intended to determine how favorably the commissioners were disposed.

During the time period of the commission Talleyrand and his associates were known to accept bribes from a number of other countries in order to advance their negotiations.

In February Talleyrand gained approval from the Directory for a new bargaining position, and he maneuvered to exclude Marshall from the negotiations at well.

Fouché was soon moved, in fact dismissed, to the post of French ambassador in Saxony ; Talleyrand himself lost his portfolio soon after ( he was PM from 9 July to 26 September 1815 ).

Talleyrand had advised Napoleon to pursue milder terms ; the treaties marked an important stage in his estrangement from the emperor.

Despite this fact, however, he refused the offer of a place in the ministry of the former revolutionary and Bonapartist Talleyrand, pleading both a long absence from France and an ignorance of its conditions.

Eventually, though, after Talleyrand's resignation in advance of the opening session of the new Ultraroyalist Chamber of Deputies ( the famous Chambre introuvable ), Richelieu decided ( after much urging from Mathieu de Montmorency ) to succeed Talleyrand as the Prime Minister of France, though – as he himself said – he did not know the face of a single one of his colleagues.

It included originally two members from the First Estate ( Champion de Cicé, Archbishop of Bordeaux and Talleyrand, Bishop of Autun ); two from the Second ( the comte de Clermont-Tonnerre and the marquis de Lally-Tollendal ); and four from the Third ( Jean Joseph Mounier, Abbé Sieyès, Nicholas Bergasse, and Isaac René Guy le Chapelier ).

A second Constitutional Committee quickly replaced it, and included Talleyrand, Abbé Sieyès, and Le Chapelier from the original group, as well as new members Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, Jacques Guillaume Thouret, Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, François Denis Tronchet, and Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne, all of the Third Estate.

For carrying it out it is essential to to assess one's own strength correctly and at the same time understand the methods and aims of the other powers. The man who bases his political ideas on the weakness of his own country, who sees only dangers, or whose only desire is to remain stationary, is not pursuing a policy at all, and should be kept far away from the scene of activity. The years 1814 / 15 saw France in complete military and political collapse, yet no one at the Congress of Vienna followed a more active policy than Talleyrand — to France's advantage.

During the Consulate, his friends Talleyrand and Fouché managed to remove his name from the list of the wanted, and returned to France in 1801, where he was retired with the patent of Divisional General.

It was said the French statesman Talleyrand once stayed there during his exile from France, presumably at some point during 1792-1794.

He notes that at the congress of Vienna he received £ 22, 000 through Talleyrand from Louis XVIII, while Castlereagh gave him £ 600, accompanied by " les plus folles promesses "; his diary is full of such entries.

However, the Talleyrand plan was one of several ideas exploring the concept of partitioning Belgium, which is considered by some as simply a " buffer state " between France and other European nations ; modern proposals include the specific separation of the areas inhabited mainly by French-speakers ( Walloons ) from those inhabited mainly by ( Flemish ) Dutch-speakers.

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The real direction of foreign affairs, however, lay less in his hands than in those of Talleyrand, who had gone to London as the ambassador of the new king.

As this would awaken English jealousy, he sent Talleyrand to London with assurances that, if victorious, the French would annex no territory.

He followed Talleyrand to London in 1832.

* The neutrality of Belgium: Chapter II-the London conference and the quintuple treaty Talleyrand, The Prince of diplomats

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

Neither Talleyrand nor Jackson persuaded the Danes to end their neutrality so Jackson went back to the British fleet assembled in the Sound on 15 August.

In the meantime, Duhamel has approached Stephen with an offer to take peace offerings to the King and British government ( presumably a plan hatched up by Talleyrand and some senior officials ).

Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain all supported the somewhat authoritarian Dutch king, many fearing the French would annex an independent Belgium ( particularly the British: see Talleyrand partition plan for Belgium ).

Though he was not disposed to undervalue himself, neither were others ; Talleyrand considered him the ablest British diplomat of the age and certainly his achievement at the Hague was to sustain such a judgement ".

Gerry, along with cocommissioners Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and John Marshall, traveled to France and met with Foreign Minister Talleyrand.

In a letter written to Minister of Foreign Affairs Talleyrand, Napoleon requested Talleyrand not tell anyone about the upcoming battle because he did not want to disturb Empress Joséphine.

There is reason to believe that his father, Charles-François Delacroix, was infertile at the time of Eugène's conception and that his real father was Talleyrand, who was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and whom the adult Eugène resembled in appearance and character.

Napoleon had on 31 July instructed his Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, to inform the Danes that if they did not wish for Holstein to be invaded and occupied by Jean Bernadotte they must prepare for war against Britain.

When Adams sent three other commissioners to Paris to negotiate, agents of Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ( whom Adams labeled " X, Y and Z " in his report to Congress ) informed the Americans that negotiations could only begin if the United States loaned France $ 12 million and bribed officials of the French government.

The lengthy tractations surrounding the mediatisation process usually involved the French Foreign minister Talleyrand.

* Orateurs et hommes d ' état – Frédéric II – M. de Bismarck – Fox et Pitt – Lord Grey – Talleyrand – Berryer – Gladstone, Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1889

Rogers himself kept a notebook in which he entered impressions of the conversation of many of his distinguished friends — Fox, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, Richard Porson, John Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Lord Erskine, Scott, Lord Grenville and the Duke of Wellington.

The direction of affairs having passed into the hands of Talleyrand and his associates, Daunou turned once more to literature, but in 1798 he was sent to Rome to organize the Roman Republic.

There, Ernest Renan studied under the direction of the Abbé Dupanloup, who attained celebrity in 1838 when he reconciled the notoriously amoral diplomat Talleyrand, who had received the minor orders at Saint-Nicholas, to the church on his death-bed.