Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — A Swearing Statesman. [ARTICLE]

A Swearing Statesman.

Talleyrand swore allegiance thirteen times as follows: 1. To Clement XIII., on taking priest’s orders. 2. To Clement XVL,. on becoming Bishop of Autum. • 3. To Louis XVI., in 1879, at the assembling of the States general. 4. To the King and constitution, at the “federation” of the Champ de Mars. »5. To the Directory, in 1695. 6. To the same, on becoming Minister of Foreign Relations. 7. , To the three Consuls, Bonaparte, Bieyes and Ducos. 8. To Napoleon, as First Consul. .9. To Napoleon, as Emperor. 10. To Louis XVin., in 1814. 11. To the same at the Second Restoration in 1845. 12. To Charles X., in 1824. 13. To Louis PhiU’ppe, 1830. And none of them seemed to hurt him much.