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Louis de Talleyrand Périgord

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Napoléon-Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay was a French soldier and politician.

Biography

He was born at Paris on 12 March 1811, the son of the general Alexandre de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duke of Dino and later duc de Talleyrand-Périgord, and of Dorothea of Courland, duchess of Sagan. Like his father, he followed a military career. After leaving the army, he was called to the Chamber of Peers on 19 April 1845, where he voted with the supporters of Louis-Philippe's government. After the Revolution of 1848 he retired into private life. He was made a Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1838, and an officer of the Legion of Honour on 30 June 1867, as a member of the jury of the Exposition Universelle.

Talleyrand married firstly, at Paris on 26 Feb 1829, Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency (13 October 1810–13 September 1858), by whom he had two sons, Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord and Adalbert, Duke of Montmorency, and two daughters. He married secondly, on 4 April 1861, Pauline de Castellane (6 July 1823–9 March 1895), by whom he had a third daughter, Dorothée. He died at Berlin on 21 March 1898.

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