MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESSE de DINO (Tallyrand) 1831-35 LONDON DIPLOMACY Illustratd
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TITLE: Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835
AUTHOR: Dorothée Dino, duchesse de; Marie Dorothea Elisabeth de Castellane Radziwill, FuÌrstin
PUBLISHER: London: William Heinemann
DATE: 1909
DESCRIPTION: viii, 349 pages frontispiece (portrait) 23 cm
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Lightly bumped corners. Some spine wear with slight fraying on tail cap. Pages clean and free of marks and creases. A number of fore edges unopened (inquire with the book seller on how to safely open these edges without damage to book's value).
BINDING: Full Red Cloth. Gilt tooled with gold on front cover and spine. Gilt on top edges of pages.
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An outstanding reference to Georgian court life from the perspective of French diplomats. An extensive biographical appendix identifying many court personalities.
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Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand, and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothée de Dino (21 August 1793 – 19 September 1862), was a Baltic German noblewoman. For a long time, she accompanied the French statesman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord; she was the separated wife of his nephew, Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord.
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When Talleyrand became French ambassador in London in 1830, she accompanied him and felt more comfortable there than in Paris, which she was detested and where the whole Faubourg Saint-Germain made her feel she was a foreigner. This was a theme throughout her life: in Prussia she was seen as too French, in Paris as too German.
