ext_12592 ([identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2011-05-19 12:03 pm (UTC)

Even Talleyrand? If anyone deserved it he does.

At the Congress of Vienna, where he was representing the Bourbons, he was asked if he needed anything sent from Paris: "I have more than enough secretaries, but send saucepans!"

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