EDITED
FROM THE PAPERS OF THE LATE
M. COLMACHE,
PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRINCE,

BY
MADAME COLMACHE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1848.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
The Duc D’Aiguillon and Madame Dubarri—Talleyrand’s return from America—Chénier, Madame de Staël, and Madame de la Bouchardie[1]
CHAPTER II.
The Abbé Cerutti[48]
CHAPTER III.
The Salons of Paris before the Revolution[92]
CHAPTER IV.
Talleyrand’s Boudoir—Portraits—Madame de Brionne—Madame de Flahaut—A Gambling Scene—The Chevalier de Fénélon—Madame Grandt—Princess Talleyrand[118]
CHAPTER V.
Talleyrand’s desire for Amity between England and France—Louis Dixhuit—The Archbishop de M.—Madame de Krudener—Alexander of Russia[179]
CHAPTER VI.
The last Moments of Prince Talleyrand[232]
EXTRACTS FROM
PRINCE TALLEYRAND’S MANUSCRIPTS,
SPEECHES, & POLITICAL WRITINGS.
Prince Talleyrand’s Maxims for Seasoning Conversation[261]
Prince Talleyrand’s Opinion of Fox[270]
Private Letter from Prince Talleyrand to Marshal Sebastiani, on the Policy of suffering Belgium to be created an Independent Monarchy[276]
From Prince Talleyrand to Marshal Sebastiani, on the same subject as the preceding[280]
Letter from Prince Talleyrand to Count Sebastiani, on the Affairs of Belgium[284]
Observations on the Trial of Peers by the Chamber of Peers, and the Reasons on which Talleyrand Grounded his Vote in the Affair of Lieutenants-General Guilleminot and Bordesoulle[289]
Another Fragment from Prince Talleyrand’s Memoirs[296]
Letter to his Majesty King William IV., from Prince Talleyrand, on his being appointed Ambassador from France[306]
Opinion of Prince Talleyrand on the Plan of Law Relative to Journals and Periodical Publications[307]
Opinion of the Bishop of Autun on the Subject of Ecclesiastical Property, Delivered in the National Assembly in the Year 1789[317]
Extracts from the Speech of the Bishop of Autun, on the Occasion of his Motion on the Subject of Ecclesiastical Reform, on the 10th of October, 1789[322]
Opinion of the Bishop of Autun on Banks, and on the Re-establishment of Order in the French Finances[326]
Index[347]

REMINISCENCES
OF THE LATE
PRINCE TALLEYRAND.

CHAPTER I.
THE DUC D’AIGUILLON AND MADAME DUBARRI—TALLEYRAND’S RETURN FROM AMERICA—CHÉNIER, MADAME DE STAËL, AND MADAME DE LA BOUCHARDIE.