Excerpt from Talleyrand: A Biographical Study
Sainte-Beuve, after an attempt that one cannot describe as successful, declared that "it is hardly possible to write the life of M.de Talleyrand." Frederic Masson noticed the figure of the great diplomatist as he passed with a disdainful "ce Sphinx." Carlyle forgot his dogmatism for a moment, and pronounced Talleyrand "one of the strangest things ever seen or like to be seen, an enigma for future ages." Even a woman of penetration, Mme. de Stael, who had known him well, assures us that he was "the most impenetrable and most inexplicable of men."
There were a few who thought that the long-sealed "Memoirs" of the Prince, which were published only a few years ago, would reveal every secret.
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