Raphaël Six

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Affinity

Portrayed by their contemporaries, the facial features of the two men illustrated on these pages – who, without ever having met one another, were...

Extravagance or Boldness

The Ancien Régime – as the political and social system in France during the period immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 came to be...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord – The Man With Six Heads

Whether as a hero or a villain, you could say that Talleyrand is a fairytale character… Of princely extraction, born in an “enchanted land”,...