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Whether he knew or not of Talleyrand's immense gain by the pacification at Luneville in February, 1801, he did not neglect his own individual interest.
Nay! he recurred to Talleyrand's policy of encouraging the Hapsburgs to seek in the Balkan Peninsula compensation for their losses in the west: and within fifteen years the basis of the Triple Alliance was firmly laid.
Report, however, states, what is very probable, that they were merely the duped tools of Cambaceres's ambition and vanity, and of Talleyrand's corruption and cupidity.
Bonaparte President of the Cisalpine Republic Meeting of the deputation at Lyons Malta and the English My immortality Fete given by Madame Murat Erasures from the emigrant list Restitution of property General Sebastiani Lord Whitworth Napoleon's first symptoms of disease Corvisart Influence of physical suffering on Napoleon's temper Articles for the Moniteur General Andreossi M. Talleyrand's pun Jerome Bonaparte Extravagance of Bonaparte's brothers M. Collot and the navy contract.
Certain it is that Murat was the first, and Louis Bonaparte the second in command, on this dreadful occasion. PARIS, August, 1805. MY LORD: Thanks to Talleyrand's political emigration, our Government has never been in ignorance of the characters and foibles of the leading members among the emigrants in England.
Whether Savary's advice was honestly stupid, or whether, as Lavalette hints, Talleyrand's intrigues were undermining his loyalty to Napoleon, it is difficult to say. But certainly the advice gave Napoleon an additional reason for flinging himself on Schwarzenberg's rear and drawing him back into Lorraine.
Though thirteen out of twenty-six cardinals present in Paris declined to attend it, this marriage was a masterstroke of Talleyrand's diplomacy; it secured the benevolent neutrality of Austria for the next three years, and weakened the counsels of the allies during the negotiations of 1814-15.
All Josephine's arts seemed unavailing against her obdurate enemies, and her last hope was to obtain royal alliances for her relatives, thus securing new support against those of the Emperor. She had a charming niece, Mlle. There is no indication, however, that Talleyrand's hand was crossed this time, though again his judgment coincided with his interest in sound advice.
As all this official correspondence has been published in England, you may, upon reading the notes presented by Baron de Dreyer, and Mr. Livingstone, the neutral Ambassadors of Denmark and America, form some tolerably just idea of Talleyrand's formula. Their impolitic servility was blamed even by the other members of the diplomatic corps.
Talleyrand's Memoirs, Mémoires de Chateaubriand; Lacretelle, Capefigue, Alison; Biographie Universelle, Mémoires de Louis XVIII., Fyffe, Mackenzie's History of the Nineteenth Century, all are interesting, and worthy of perusal.
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