Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — Talleyrand and Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

Talleyrand and Napoleon.

Century What was strange ih Napoleon’s behavior towards me was, that at the time that he showed himself most suspicious of me he was endeavoring to draw Hie nearer to him. Thus in the month of December, 1813, he asked me to resume the portifolio of Foreign Affairs which 1 straightway declined, convinced as I was that we could never agree on the only poasiblo way of his escape from the maze into which he had been brought by his folly. A few weeks latter, in the mouth of January, 1814, de Caulaincourt had already started for the Chatilion congress, the Emperor worked almost every evenir j with M. de ia Besnardiere, who had the foreign office in M. de Caulain* court’s absence. In the course of these conversations which were kept up far into the night, he often opened his mind to him in a strange fashion. Thus he several times ‘epeated to him after reading the despatches in which the Duke of Vicenza to d him of 1 the progress of the (Jtaatillor negotiations, ‘■Ah! If Talleyrand were there he would pull me through ’’ A large owl wandered into Minneapolis, Minn., the othor afternoon, and perched on a street clock, where it remained until night fall, winking and blinking at passers by. l'wenty-six lepers were recently baptized at Purulia, India, making in all 118,lepers received into the church i since thecommenccment of the asylum u.roe years ago. ’’ I would not when I brush the dust oil my hat forget the of distrust Mptnioa In mj brai*- "" !*i