Hey, it is me Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein. I am so glad I got you out of America and now back in France. Hope we will meet again so we can catch up on things.
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That is me(Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord)
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About Me
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- I was born into an aristocratic family in Paris. My congenital leg limp left me unable to enter the expected military career. Deprived of my rights of primogeniture by my family council, which judged my physical condition incompatible with the traditional military careers of the Talleyrand Counts of Perigord, I was instead directed to an ecclesiastic career. This was considerably assisted and encouraged by my uncle Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord, then Roman Catholic Archbishop of Reims. It would appear that my family, while prestigious and ancient, was not particularly prosperous, and saw church positions as a way to gain wealth. I attended the Collège d'Harcourt and seminary of Saint-Sulpice until the age of 21. I was ordained a priest in 1779. In 1780, I became a Catholic-church representative to the French Crown, the Agent-General of the Clergy. In this position, I was instrumental in drafting a general inventory of church properties in France as of 1785, along with a defence of "inalienable rights of church", a stance I was to deny later. In 1789, because of the influence of my father and family, the already notably I was appointed Bishop of Autun.
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