Crane Brinton

"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand (French: [al mois d tal()̃ pei]; 1754?1838) was a French diplomat. He worked successfully from the regime of Louis XVI, through the French Revolution and then under Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis-Philippe. Known since the turn of the 19th century simply by the name Talleyrand, he remains a figure that polarizes opinion. Some regard him as one of the most versatile, skilled and influential diplomats in European history, and some believe that he was a traitor, betraying in turn, the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Restoration. He is also notorious for leaving the Catholic Church after ordination to the priesthood and consecration to the episcopacy."--Wikipedia.

"Reading suggestions": p. -296.

The nature of man's conduct and his ethical principles traced through the centuries, from ancient Egypt to modern America, by a Harvard history professor.

The volume attempts to capture the "age of enlightenment" in Western civilization through representative excerpts from notable authors from Descartes to the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Map on lining-papers. The background: a survey of modern Britain.--The British isles in the war.--Anglo-American relations on the past.--Problems of the present and the future.--Appendix I. Some vital facts about Britain.--Appendix II. Suggested reading (p. -298).