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Why was Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand expelled from the seminary of Saint-Sulpice?
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French diplomat Talleyrand, portrait by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1817.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand was expelled from the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in 1775 due to his conduct. While at the seminary, he had begun reading the works of the Philosophes and had taken his first mistress, reflecting a lifestyle that diverged from the expectations of his ecclesiastical training.1