TY - BOOK AU - Lawday, David. TI - Napoleon's master SN - 9781844137428 U1 - 440.0737LAW PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 N1 - First published: London : J. Cape, c2006 N2 - Born into the high aristocracy, where rank meant more than wealth, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord was to become one of the great politicians of all time. His early career in politics was marked with turmoil: a liberal who saw the need to curb the powers of the monarchy, Talleyrand fled from France when the violence of the revolution turned extreme in 1792, first to England and then to the United States. It was not until his return to France after the dust had settled in 1796 that his star would begin to rise in earnest ER -