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Jacques Godechot
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Former Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean, Faculty of Letters, University of Toulouse II, France. Author of Les Révolutions, 1770–1799; Napoléon; and others.
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent , prince de Bénévent was a French statesman and diplomat noted for his capacity for political survival, who held high office during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, at the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and under King Louis-Philippe.…
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