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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent: Media

French statesman and diplomat

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Talleyrand
French diplomat Talleyrand, portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1817.
Art Institute of Chicago, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in memory of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1994 (1994.190), www.artic.edu
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, undated colored engraving.
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