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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 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

Among diplomats, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 3 out of 52Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 3Before 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 1After 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ranks 151 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among DIPLOMATS In France

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