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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Geburtstag: 2. Februar 1754
Todesdatum: 17. Mai 1838
Andere Namen:Charles Maurice Talleyrand,Charles M. Talleyrand-Périgord,Principe Talleyrand

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord [ʃaʀlə mɔʀis də taljɛʀɑ̃ peʀigɔʀ] war einer der bekanntesten französischen Staatsmänner sowie Diplomat während der Französischen Revolution, der Napoleonischen Kriege und beim Wiener Kongress. Für seine Verdienste erhielt er mehrere Adelstitel: 1806 Fürst von Benevent, 1807 Herzog von Talleyrand-Périgord und 1815 Herzog von Dino . Da er in allen Regimen seiner Zeit hohe Ämter innehatte, steht der Name Talleyrand heute für politischen Opportunismus und Anpassungsfähigkeit.

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„Vor allen Dingen keinen Eifer!“

— Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Georg Büchmann: Geflügelte Worte

„Verrat, Sire, ist nur eine Frage des Datums.“

— Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
zu Zar Alexander I., Wiener Kongress

„Der Kaffee muss schwarz sein wie der Teufel, heiß wie die Hölle, rein wie ein Engel und süß wie die Liebe.“

— Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Georg Büchmann: Geflügelte Worte

Über Liebe, über liebe

„They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Context: They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. (and variations) Recognized since the 19th century as a borrowing, possibly used by Talleyrand, from a 1796 letter to Mallet du Pan by French naval officer Charles Louis Etienne, Chevalier de Panat: Personne n'est corrigé; personne n'a su ni rien oublier ni rien apprendre. "Nobody has been corrected; no one has known to forget, nor yet to learn anything." Sources: Craufurd Tate Ramage Ll.D.Beautiful thoughts from French and Italian authors, E. Howell (1866)

„Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
frequently misattributed to Talleyrand, no primary source exists, its not his style of speech, and he famously drank tea not coffee.

„Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Reported in Memoirs pour Servir a l'histoire de nous Temps by François Guizot, Volume I, p. 6.

„It is not an event, it is a piece of news.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
On hearing of Napoleon's death; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

„It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Reaction to the 1804 drumhead trial and execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, on orders of Napoleon. Actually said by either Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, legislative deputy from Meurthe (according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations) or Joseph Fouché, Napoleon's chief of police (according to John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), http://www.bartleby.com/100/758.1.html).

„I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come — in public opinion.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
In the Chamber of Peers (1821); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 570.

„You do not play then at whist, sir! Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 90.

„It is the beginning of the end.“

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Ascribed to Talleyrand in The Hundred Days (1815); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 66. Also attributed to General Augereau.