Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord

Edmond de Talleyrand -Périgord ( born August 1, 1787 Paris, France, † May 14, 1872 in Florence, Italy), 2nd Duc de Talleyrand, 2nd Duke de Dino, was a French general.

Family

He was the nephew of Napoleon's foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand - and son of Count de Talleyrand -Périgord Archambaud (1762-1838) and Countess Madeleine Olivier de Senozan de Viriville ( 1764-1794 ).

Talleyrand was quite indifferent on April 21, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main, a marriage of one with the rich Dorothea, Princess of Courland and Semgallen, Duchess of Dino in Calabria ( 1817 ), Duchess of Talleyrand ( 1838 ) and Duchess of Sagan (from 1843). She was the illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Duchess Dorothea of Courland, whose husband Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland and Semgallen, the child, however, than his acknowledged.

His uncle, the foreign minister Talleyrand, had previously sought a good match for his nephew. In France, he was able to achieve anything because Napoleon I. had all befitting French heiresses reserved to the own, his devoted nobility and Talleyrand in 1807 after his resignation as foreign minister was no longer in the favor of the emperor. On the occasion of the Congress of Erfurt in 1808 so he came up with the request for placement of a marriage of his nephew Edmond with Dorothea of Courland to the Russian Tsar Alexander I, who had him in gratitude for diplomatic services also help. The consent of the bride's mother, the Duchess of Courland, was as safe as the payment of their annual Apanage 's goodwill towards Russia was dependent. They also felt Talleyrand friendly terms.

The couple had children Napoléon -Louis (1811-1898), Dorothée (1812-1814), Alexandre (1813-1894) and Pauline ( 1820-1890 ). From the connection with Pauline Marquis Henri de Castellane comes Talleyrand's granddaughter Marie salonière of Radziwill.

Already in 1812 was actually married life ended, but the two separated in March 1816. Dorothea, has become mistress of 62 years and 40 years older uncle Talleyrand, moved into his house and, after his death in 1838 even his sole heir. The official divorce from husband Edmond, however, was not completed until 1824.

Life

1812 Edmond de Talleyrand received a regiment in Brescia ( northern Italy).

On September 19, 1813, he was beaten as a colonel and French troops commander during the liberation war in the battle of mill mountain on the Elbe (Brandenburg) with its three Chasseur regiments (Jäger regiments ) by Major General Leopold Wilhelm of Dobschütz ( 1763-1836 ) and captured.

In October 1823 he was lieutenant general.