Carême's creations soon captured the discriminating eye of a French diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.

卡莱姆的作品很快吸引了颇具鉴赏目光的法国外交官查尔斯·莫里斯·德·塔利兰·佩里戈尔德的注意。

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Running his eyes over the list, Talleyrand remarked, "one must at least do him the justice of acknowledging that he has omitted none of his friends."

他看了一遍，说：“我们对富歇须公平一点，至少也得承认，他连自己的朋友都写了进去，没有一个遗漏。”

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David Lawday, whose previous book was a life of Talleyrand and who used to be a journalist at The Economist, provides a gripping story, beautifully told.

之前创作了一部关于塔列朗生平的著作并曾担任《经济学家》记者的大卫•洛德用精美的语言为我们讲述了一个引人入胜的故事。

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True, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, is guile incarnate, a Tory Talleyrand to whom Mr Cameron subcontracts his strategic thinking.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The most recent life of Talleyrand in English was by Duff Cooper, a Conservative politician and diplomat, which was published in 1932.

ECONOMIST: Talleyrand

Talleyrand's name, to admirers, was a byword for diplomatic prowess: a brilliant political mind, a negotiator of unsurpassed skill and a tireless worker for the interests of France not to overlook a fount of worldly bons mots.

ECONOMIST: Talleyrand