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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (a.k.a. Talleyrand)

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C'est le commencement de la fin.
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It is the beginning of the end.
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Ascribed to Talleyrand in The Hundred Days (1815); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 66. Also attributed to General Augereau.

 
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (a.k.a. Talleyrand)

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