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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

1754 - 1838

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (; French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, moʁ-]; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord has received more than 2,019,096 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord is the 4th most popular diplomat (down from 3rd in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from France (up from 151st in 2019) and the most popular French Diplomat.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord is most famous for being a diplomat, politician, and French statesman. He was a key figure in the Bourbon Restoration, serving as France's Foreign Minister from 1814 to 1815, and again from 1820 to 1823. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1814, which ended the Napoleonic Wars. He was a major participant in the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the map of Europe after Napoleon's defeat.

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  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 4 out of 90. Before him are Pocahontas, Kofi Annan, and John Jay. After him are Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ban Ki-moon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 3. Before him are Louis XVI of France, and Paul I of Russia. After him are Joseph Proust, Seraphim of Sarov, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Georg Forster, Frederick I of Württemberg, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Among people deceased in 1838, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 1. After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Adelbert von Chamisso, Johanna Schopenhauer, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, and Bernhard Crusell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 147 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XVIII of France (1755), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), François Hollande (1954), and Pope Clement V (1264). After him are Charles IX of France (1550), Georges Braque (1882), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Pope John XXII (1244), Zinedine Zidane (1972), and Henry II of England (1133).

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Among DIPLOMATS In France

Among diplomats born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), Édith Cresson (1934), and Jules Cambon (1845).

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