Son of Talleyrand – The Life of Comte Charles de Flahaut By Francoise de Bernardy

Disinction came to Count Charles de Flahaut in many ways – by birth, at war, in love, as a diplomat, and through his children. His father was Talleyrand (also father, in similar, unconventional circumstances, of the painter Delacroix) and his mother was related by marriage to Mme. de Pompadour. He became a Leutenant-General and A.D.C. to Napoleon at the age of thirty, riding with the Emperor from the field of Waterloo. Among those who loved him were Hortense, Queen of Holland, who bore him a son; Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon and Queen of Naples; Anna Potocka, neice of the last King of Poland; and Mlle. Mars of the Théâtre Français. In middle age he became the French Ambassador in Vienna, and as an old man he came to the Embassy in London thirty years after Talleyrand had taken over the same post at the same age