#charles maurice de talleyrand

Duff Cooper, Talleyrand’s biographer, on the difference between Talleyrand and Fouché was that for the former “politics meant the settlement of dynastic or international problems discussed in a ball-room or across the dinner-table; for Fouché the same word meant street-corner assassination, planned by masked conspirators in dark cellars”.

Charming individuals, no?

Source: http://gillraysprintshop.blogspot.com/2009/01/talleyrand-and-fouche.html