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19th-century French diplomats

  • Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born on the 3rd of May 1748 in Fréjus, a southern French town. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and spent ten…
  • Louis-Guillaume OttoLudwig Otto arrived at the University of Strasbourg in 1772 to study under Christoph Wilhelm von Koch. He earned degrees in Modern Languages and Law while…
  • Alexandre Colonna-WalewskiOn the 4th of May 1810, a boy named Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Walewski drew his first breath at Walewice near Warsaw.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordCharles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord entered the world on the 2nd of February 1754 in Paris. He was born into an ancient aristocratic family that lacked…