Talleyrand-Périgord

American

[tal-uh-rand-per-i-gawr, ta-le-rahn-pey-ree-gawr] / ˈtæl əˌrændˈpɛr ɪˌgɔr, ta lɛ rɑ̃ peɪ riˈgɔr /

noun

Charles Maurice de Prince de Bénévent 1754–1838, French statesman.

Talleyrand-Périgord British

/ talɛrɑ̃periɡɔr, ˈtælɪˌrændˈpɛrɪɡɔː /

noun

Charles Maurice (ʃarl mɔris). 1754–1838, French statesman; foreign minister (1797–1807; 1814–15). He secretly negotiated with the Allies against Napoleon I from 1808 and was France's representative at the Congress of Vienna (1815)

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After her death, it passed to her niece and then briefly to the family of a Napoleonic diplomat, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles M. de, and the X.Y.Z. mission, 216.

From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe

The answer, for a wonder, was in the affirmative, and the priest spent several minutes with him, bringing out from the sick-room a paper signed "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent."

From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles, Prince of Benevento, 23, 26, 83, 84.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth

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