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ղԻ-éǰ
[ tal-uh-rand-per-i-gawr; French ta-le-rahn-pey-ree-gawr ]
noun
- Charles Mau·rice de [sh, a, r, l moh-, rees, d, uh], Prince de Bé·né·vent [prins, d, uh, bey-ney-, vahn], 1754–1838, French statesman.
ղԻ-éǰ
/ talɛrɑ̃periɡɔr; ˈtælɪˌrændˈpɛrɪɡɔː /
noun
- ղԻ-éǰCharles Maurice17541838MFrenchPOLITICS: statesman Charles Maurice (ʃarl mɔris). 1754–1838, French statesman; foreign minister (1797–1807; 1814–15). He secretly negotiated with the Allies against Napoleon I from 1808 and was France's representative at the Congress of Vienna (1815)
Example Sentences
After her death, it passed to her niece and then briefly to the family of a Napoleonic diplomat, Charles-Maurice de ղԻ-éǰ.
He said the Tory leadership election brought to mind the quote of the French statesman Charles-Maurice de ղԻ-éǰ about the Bourbons in that they had “learned nothing and forgotten nothing”.
Statesmen including Charles Maurice de ղԻ-éǰ, Thomas Cromwell, Otto von Bismarck, and Niccolò Machiavelli paid obeisance to the church but were not carried away by its doctrines.
When the Kerry peace process does resume, as it surely will, the United States needs to get the two sides to own it as least as much as Washington does — and to heed the words of another Frenchman, Charles-Maurice de ղԻ-éǰ, who cautioned diplomats everywhere: Above all, not too much zeal.
He has compared Geithner to Charles Maurice de ղԻ-éǰ, the French statesman “who served the Revolution, Napoleon and the restored Bourbons — opportunistic and distrusted, but often useful and a great survivor.”
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