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100 1 $aKnapp, John M.$q(John Matthew)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85097278
245 10 $aBehind the diplomatic curtain :$bAdolphe de Bourqueney and French foreign policy, 1816-1869 /$cJohn M. Knapp.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAkron, Ohio :$bUniversity of Akron Press,$c2001.
300 $axiv, 343 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSeries on international, political, and economic history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-334) and index.
505 00 $tPreface: Clio's Gift --$g1.$tCurrying Favor: Washington, 1816-19 --$g2.$tA God with Feet of Clay: Paris and London, 1819-23 --$g3.$tSin and Redemption: Bern and Paris, 1823-30 --$g4.$tThe Eminence Grise: Paris and London, 1830-39 --$g5.$tOpportunity Knocks but Once: London, 1839-40 --$g6.$tWinning His Spurs: London, 1840-41 --$g7.$tTurkish Delights: Constantinople, 1841-44 --$g8.$tDescent into the Maelstrom: Constantinople, 1844-48 --$g9.$tIn the Land of the Blind: Blois and Paris, 1848-53 --$g10.$tThe One-Eyed Man is King: Vienna, 1853 --$g11.$tApotheosis: Vienna, 1854 --$g12.$tO What a Tangled Web We Weave: Vienna, 1855 --$g13.$tWhen First We Practise to Deceive: Vienna and Paris, 1855-56 --$g14.$tYou Are Old, Father William: Vienna, 1856-57 --$g15.$tThe Seventh Circle: Vienna and Zurich, 1858-59 --$g16.$tEntre Chien et Loup: Paris, 1859-69 --$tEpilogue: He Speaks to Us Today.
520 1 $a"Sifting Through the Bourqueney papers, one realizes quickly that they are far more than the most important documents from a long and distinguished career. Committed even as a teenager to constructing "an encyclopedia" of his life, Adolphe saved a great deal. In an age when the written word reigned supreme, we know that he devoted up to eight hours a day to his private correspondence.
520 8 $aThe responses to these letters and copies of the most important ones he wrote are invaluable beyond official diplomatic history.".
520 8 $a"The papers certainly testify to the power of the letter, and the richness of the human character reflected through the written word. Read them and you share a lifetime, live it day by day and often hour by hour with the intimacy of a diary, but the objectivity of many voices speaking in an often cacophonous manner. You come to know Adolphe de Bourqueney in a way which the oral or visual form cannot transmit.
520 8 $aHe is there in all of his complex and frequently contradictory nature: the petty and the grand, the self-serving and the selfless, the rake and the saint. His "encyclopedia" turned out to be exactly that."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBourqueney, Adolphe de,$d1799-1869.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00038518
650 0 $aDiplomats$zFrance$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102281
651 0 $aFrance$xForeign relations$y1815-1870.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051242
830 0 $aSeries on international, political, and economic history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001055192
852 00 $bglx$hDC269.B68$iK57 2001