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| | Talleyrand: the old fraud (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Talleyrand believed Austria might win the forthcoming campaign, but in fact Napoleon crushed her in a matter of weeks, after which Talleyrand re-opened connections to the Tsar via their mutual friend Count Karl von Nesselrode, and began passing Napoleons secret plans for Sweden, Poland, and Turkey to the Russians for cash. |
 | | Talleyrands complete lack of appreciation of military realitieshe later predicted disaster for the French invasion of Spain in 1823, which was successful in under two monthsought alone to have disqualified him from holding diplomatic office during a period when warfare or the threat of it was constant and universal. |
 | | Talleyrand, much of whose personality and career was given over to the lust for vengeance against enemies, tried to bring down those he blamed for his fall, throwing in his lot with the reactionary Bourbon royalist party, the Ultras. |
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