Talleyrand: A Biographical Study EPUB
by Joseph McCabe
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Excerpt: "The life-story of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, as I propose to write it, begins when, in his third or fourth year, he falls off a chest of drawers and permanently injures his foot.
That wrench of muscles and tendons, making him limp for life, led to a perverse action on the part of his educators that did equal violence to an excellent natural disposition.
They say now that the education of a child begins a hundred years before he is born.
In the case of Talleyrand you may just as well say a thousand.
On his father's side he came of one of the oldest noble families in France, and his mother was a daughter of the Marquis d'Antigny.
But these hereditary influences only shape the general contour of his character-give the refinement, the instinct to rise (Talleyrand, or Tailleran-as Napoleon always pronounced it-is said to be from "tailler les rangs"), the "sensibility" and "spirituality" (as people spoke then), the self-possession.
When you wish to trace the growth of the peculiar traits of Prince Talleyrand, you find the beginning in that fateful fall and dislocation of the foot."
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