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What position did Napoleon give Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand after becoming emperor?
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French diplomat Talleyrand, portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1817.
When Napoleon was proclaimed emperor on May 18, 1804, he appointed Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand as grand chamberlain, a position that came with an annual income of 500,000 francs.1