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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle		Friday Jul 24, 2026
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About Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
	(1754-1838) Napoleons grand chamberlain, Louis XVIIIs foreign affairs minister.

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