1. Talleyrand’s “MÉmoires” (edit, de Broglie, 5 volumes); Official Correspondence from London in 1792, during the Directoire, during the Vienna Congress, and from London in 1830-4 (edit. Pallain); Letters to Napoleon, Mme. AdÉlaide, D’Hauterive, Choiseul-Gouffier, the Duchess of Courland, Bacourt, Royer-Collard, Guizot, and others; and his separately published Speeches and other Documents.
2. “ProcÈs-verbal Historique des Actes du ClergÉ;” “ProcÈs-verbal de l’AssemblÉe Nationale;” “Histoire Parlementaire” (Bouchez et Roux); and the Memoirs or Letters of Arnault, Barante, Carnot, Consalvi, von Gagern, Mme. de Genlis, Guizot, Lauzun, Las Cases, Macdonald, Meneval, Miot de Melito, Morellet, Napoleon, Pasquier, Mme. de RÉmusat, Savary, Senfft, and Stapfer.
3. Of Biographies or Biographical Sketches of Talleyrand the chief are those by Lady Blennerhassett (the first authority on his diplomatic career), Brougham, Castellane, Castille, Lacombe (the best authority on his ecclesiastical career), Sir H. Bulwer Lytton (a very generous but imperfectly informed study), Mignet, Montarlot, and Place et Florens. The following writers are too imaginative or too prejudiced to be of much value: Bastide, Colmache, Marcade, Michaud, Pichot, Sainte-Beuve, SallÉ, Stewartson, Touchard-Lafosse, Vars, and Villemarest.
4. Subsidiary information has been derived chiefly from “Aus dem Eheleben eines Bischofs” (anon.); Abt’s “Lebensende des F. Talleyrand;” Aulard’s “Histoire Politique de la RÉvolution FranÇaise;” Caro’s “La Fin du XVIII SiÈcle;” CrÉtineau-Joly’s “Bonaparte et le Concordat;” Darcy’s “L’ambassade de Talleyrand À Londres;” Demaria’s “Benevento sotto il Principe Talleyrand;” Gazier’s “Etude sur l’Histoire RÉligieuse de la RÉvolution FranÇaise;” Goncourt’s “Histoire de la SociÉtÉ FranÇaise Pendant la RÉvolution;” Louandre’s “La Noblesse FranÇaise sous l’ancienne Monarchie;” Mongras’ “La fin d’une SociÉtÉ;” Michelet’s “Histoire de la RÉvolution;” Rambaud et Levisse’s “Histoire GÉnÉrale;” Rose’s “Life of Napoleon I.;” Sloane’s “Life of Napoleon;” Taine’s “Les Origines de la France Contemporaine;” Thier’s “RÉvolution,” “Consulat,” and “Empire.”
