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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French diplomat Talleyrand, portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1817.
Before pursuing his ecclesiastical career, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand was a pupil at the CollĂšge dâHarcourt in Paris, starting at the age of eight. Later, at age 15, he served as an assistant to his uncle, the coadjutor to the archbishop of Reims, before entering the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in 1770. He eventually earned a degree in theology from the Sorbonne in 1778 prior to his ordination in 1779.1