This Study is chiefly based on the following Works : 1. Talleyrand's “ Mémoires ” (edit. de Broglie, 5 volumes); Official Correspondence from London in 1792, during the Directoire, 2. “ Procès-verbal Historique des Actes du Clergé; “Procès-verbal 1 de l'Assemblée Nationale;” Histoire Parlementaire" (Bouchez et Roux); and the Memoirs or Letters of Arnault, Barante, Carnot, Consalvi, von Gagern, Mme. de Genlis, Guizot, Lauzun, Las Cases, Macdonald, Meneval, Miot de Melito, Morellet, Napoleon, Pasquier, Mme. de Rémusat, Savary, Senfft, and Stapfer. 3. Of Biographies or Biographical Sketches of Talleyrand the chief are those by Lady Blennerhassett (the first authority on his diplomatic career), Brougham, Castellane, Castille, Lacombe (the best authority on his ecclesiastical career), Sir H. Bulwer Lytton (a very generous but imperfectly informed study), Mignet, Montarlot, and Place et Florens. The following writers are too imaginative or too prejudiced to be of much value: Bastide, Colmache, Marcade, Michaud, Pichot, Sainte-Beuve, Sallé, Stewartson, Touchard-Lafosse, Vars, and Villemarest. 1 4. Subsidiary information has been derived chiefly from “ Aus dem Eheleben eines Bischofs" (anon.); Abt's “Lebensende des |