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Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of Empire and the Reaction that follows. Goethe is the literary Talleyrand, the carefully controlled spark of Romanticism, that could be said to spring into flame when Germany is born.
Talleyrand's career spans the Ancien Regime, Revolution and the Empire and the Restoration and the July Monarchy that follows.
This episode follows Roberto Calasso's Talleyrand, and his Goethe too, using various sources for the Congress of Erfurt.
Talleyrand will betray Napoleon, but did he betray France?
Viola, un homme! Is it just kitsch?
