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i remember someone- pris?- started a books thread awhile back, and, apart from pris' involvement, it was quite interesting. so here's another one, though instead of all time fave books i want to know what you've been reading lately- last month or so.

atm i'm halfway through a biog on talleyrand, fascinating stuff.



By Duff Cooper?

Fascinating indeed. Served Louis XVI, the Directorate, Napoleon, and then the restoration. Just too damn good a diplomat for anyone to care that his only loyalty was to himself. A Catholic Bishop, a whoremonger, a cripple. Infamously referred to by Napoleon as "shit in a silk stocking". After which, Bony still employed him for many years, just because he was the best in the world (possibly save Metternich) at what he did.
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