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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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conceal thought ; in which, to use his own words in hiseloge of M. de F. Reinhard—which constitute his portrait,—it was necessarythat he should possess the faculty of appearing open at the same timethat he remained impenetrable ; of being in reality reserved, althoughperfectly frank in his manners ; and in which, as Sir Walter Scott said,if he v.ishcd to be communicative, he would have a thousand reasonsfor perverting the truth ; it is not remarkable that his real character isyet, and probably ever will remain, an impenetrable mystery. Here, atall events, I can scarcely attempt an elucidation. His career was truly a wonderful one. Born February 13th, 1754, hehad more than attained his majority when Voltaire made his memorablevisit to Paris. Talleyrand was introduced to him, and received an * Roscoe, and the Injlueuce of his Writings on the Fine Arts. Read before tlicHistoric Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. By Joseph Mayer, Esq., HonoraryCurator. Liverpool, 1853, Svo, page 36.
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AUTHOR OF PALMBRSTON, UNE COMBDIE DE BBUX AJTS. PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. 155 impression from the two interviews which resulted, which remained tillthe close of his life. The effects of a fall having rendered him lame, andtherefore unfit for a military career, he entered the Church as a profession.He became, in due course. Abbe de Perigord,and Bishop of Antun (1788).In this capacity he became a member of the Eiats Gmerauxj but soonresigned his bishopric, renounced his ecclesiastical character, and devotedhimself to diplomacy. In 1792 he visited England on a secret mission ;having returned to France, and, through Danton, narrowly escapedassassination, he went to the United States, where he remained till 1790,when he was recalled by a decree of the Convention. When Napoleonbecame First Consul, Talleyrand remained in office as Foreign Minister.In 1803, released from ecclesiastical restraints by a brief from Pius \TI.,he married. Then came the day of his rivalry with Fouche, resulting inhis u

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