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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

1754 - 1838

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (; French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, moʁ-]; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord is the 5th most popular diplomat (down from 4th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from France (down from 147th in 2019) and the most popular French Diplomat.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord is most famous for being a diplomat, politician, and French statesman. He was a key figure in the Bourbon Restoration, serving as France's Foreign Minister from 1814 to 1815, and again from 1820 to 1823. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1814, which ended the Napoleonic Wars. He was a major participant in the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the map of Europe after Napoleon's defeat.

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Among diplomats, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 5 out of 90. Before him are Pocahontas, Kofi Annan, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Gaius Marius. After him are John Jay, Ban Ki-moon, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, John R. Bolton, Raoul Wallenberg, and Antony Blinken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 3. Before him are Louis XVI of France, and Paul I of Russia. After him are Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Joseph Proust, Georg Forster, Seraphim of Sarov, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Frederick I of Württemberg, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Among people deceased in 1838, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 1. After him are William Clark, Adelbert von Chamisso, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 206 out of 6,770. Before him are Théodore Géricault (1791), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Jean Bodin (1530), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Philip VI of France (1293), and Charles Gounod (1818). After him are Zinedine Zidane (1972), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Charles IV of France (1294), Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), and Petronius (27).

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Among DIPLOMATS In France

Among diplomats born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Édith Cresson (1934), and Jules Cambon (1845).

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