Prince of Benevento
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
France 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838
In 1814: Head of the Provisional Government
Talleyrand had been Napoleon’s foreign minister and later his quiet opponent. He stayed in Paris in March 1814 when the government left, and he welcomed the Tsar into his own house. He guided the Senate to depose the Emperor and smoothed the way for the return of the Bourbons.
On the timeline
Sources
- Wikidata (dates of birth and death, portrait identifiers)
- F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon at Bay, 1814 (London: John Lane, 1914) · Public domain. The main source for strengths, losses and movements on this site.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons. The licence for each image is checked at build time and linked from its caption.