1754 - 1838
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 secularised 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 1,795,611 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord is the 3rd most popular diplomat (up from 5th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from France (up from 166th 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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Among diplomats, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 3 out of 52. Before him are Pocahontas and Kofi Annan. After him are Gaius Marius, Dag Hammarskjöld, Ban Ki-moon, John Jay, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alexandra Kollontai, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, and Madeleine Albright.
1595 - 1617
HPI: 81.18
Rank: 1
1938 - 2018
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 2
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 3
157 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 4
1905 - 1961
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 5
1944 - Present
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 6
1745 - 1829
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 7
1922 - 2016
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 8
1872 - 1952
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 9
1805 - 1894
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 10
1912 - 1947
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 11
1937 - 2022
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 12
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 Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Seraphim of Sarov, Joseph Proust, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Madame Roland, Frederick I of Württemberg, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. Among people deceased in 1838, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 1. After him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Bernard Courtois, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.
1754 - 1793
HPI: 85.12
Rank: 1
1754 - 1801
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 2
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 3
1754 - 1806
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 4
1754 - 1833
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 5
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 6
1754 - 1793
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 7
1754 - 1793
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 8
1754 - 1816
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 9
1754 - 1832
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 10
1754 - 1842
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 11
1754 - 1785
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 12
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 1
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 2
1749 - 1838
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 3
1774 - 1838
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 4
1759 - 1838
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 5
1785 - 1838
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 6
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 7
1766 - 1838
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 8
1784 - 1838
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 9
1758 - 1838
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 10
1777 - 1838
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 11
1772 - 1838
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 151 out of 6,011. Before him are François Mitterrand (1916), Georges Seurat (1859), Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Charles V of France (1338), Jean Bodin (1530), and Christian Dior (1905). After him are Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), Jean-François Millet (1814), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Jacques Cousteau (1910), and Erik Satie (1866).
1916 - 1996
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 145
1859 - 1891
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 146
1640 - 1701
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 147
1338 - 1380
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 148
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 149
1905 - 1957
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 150
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 151
1811 - 1832
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 152
938 - 1003
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 153
1814 - 1875
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 154
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 155
1910 - 1997
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 156
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 157
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).
1754 - 1838
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 1
1805 - 1894
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 2
1775 - 1840
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 3
1934 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 4
1845 - 1935
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 5