Rosalynd pflaum biography of rory
Rosalynd pflaum biography of rory
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BIOGRAPHY
“Talleyrand and His World” by Rosalynd Pflaum (Afton Press, $30): Here’s my first message to faithful readers in the new year: You must read this lively, mesmerizing biography of one of the most influential statesmen of the early 19th century.
I flew through this page book that ranges from the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette through the French Revolution and Napoleon’s reign to the restoration of the monarchy in
Pflaum, who is in her early 90s, has written several acclaimed biographies, including “Grand Obsession: Madame Curie and Her World.”
She characterizes Talleyrand as “the notoriously enigmatic Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord, one of the most fascinating, unscrupulous, ambitious men of all time.”
The French Revolution is one of my passions, but I didn’t realize how important Talleyrand was during those turbulent years.
This is a complex man who managed to keep his head, literally, even though