Talleyrand: For the Love of France

Examining the career of Charles- Maurice de Talleyrand can be rather a daunting task because he is a character in our history books that is surrounded by the ideas of his times and in the government renovations that occurred in pre-revolutionary and then during the French Revolution. Due to the very nature of the changing ideas associated French Revolution itself and the quickness and the complexity of the evolution from one form of government to another, it becomes quite difficult analyze the performance of a man's service to his country when the nature of the entity of the country itse…