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TALLAHASSEE 235 TALLEYRAND-PEBIGORD Leon CO.; on the Carrabelle, Tallahassee, and Georgia, and the Florida Central and Peninsula railroads; 194 miles E. of Mobile, Ala. Here are the State Nor- mal, Agricultural and Industrial Insti- tute for Colored Pupils, State Seminary, several libraries, artesian water plants, a street railroad. National and State banks, and a number of weekly news- papers. Tallahassee is in a fruit-grow- ing and farming section. It has cotton, cigar and ice factories, and railroad con- struction and repair shops, and an assessed property valuation of neai'ly $1,000,000. Pop. (1910) 5,018; (1920) 5,637. TALLAHATCHIE, a river in north- ern Mississippi which unites at Green- wood with the Yallobusha to form the Yazoo river. It is about 240 miles long and is navigable for 100 miles. TALLAPOOSA, a river running through Georgia and Alabama. It unites with the Coosa about 10 miles N. E. of Montgomery, in the latter State, and forms the Alabama river. It is nearly 250 miles long and is navigable for about 40 miles. TALLEMANT DES REAUX, Ge'D- EON (ta-luh-monfif' da ra-6'), a French chronicler; born in La Rochelle, France, about 1619. At 19' he visited Italy in company with the future Cardinal de Retz, and at an early age married his cousin Elizabeth Rambouillet, whose ample fortune enabled him to give him- self to letters and to society. About 1650 he bought for 115,000 livres the seig- norial estate of Plessis-Rideau in Tou- raine, and was permitted to change its name to that of Des Reaux. His famous work, the "Historiettes," was written from 1657 to 1659, and is invaluable as a complete picture of the society of his time. He was still living in 1691, but was certainly dead by 1701. His brother, the Abbe Tallemant (1620-1693), was a man of wit and an academician, but his "Plutarch's Lives" (1663) brought him little credit. His cousin Paul Talle- mant (1642-1712), early began to scribble verses, at 18 wrote his "Trip to the Isle of Love," an ingenious com- mentary on Mile, de Scudery's famous "Carte de Tendre" (Map of Tenderness), and entered the Academy in 1666. TALLEYRAND -PERIGORD, CHARLES MAURICE DE (ta-a-rong- pa-re-gor'), PRINCE OF BENEVENTO, a French diplomatist; born in Paris, France, Feb. 13, 1754. Though the eldest of three brothers he was, in consequence of lameness caused by an accident, de- prived of his rights of primogeniture, and devoted, against his will, to the priesthood. His high birth and great ability procured him rapid advancement, and in 1788 he was consecrated Bishop of Autun. On the meeting of the States- General he was elected deputy for Autun, He sided with the popular leaders in the revolutionary movements; and his advocacy of the abolition of tithes and the transference of Church lands to the State gained him great popularity. In 1790 he was elected president of the Na- tional Assembly. When the civil con- stitution of the clergy was adopted he gave his adhesion to it. For this he was excommunicated by a papal brief, and thereupon renounced his episcopal TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD functions (1791). In 1792 he was sent to London charged with diplomatic func- tions, and during his stay there was pro- scribed for alleged royalist intrigues. Forced to leave England by the provi- sions of the Alien Act, in 1794 he sailed for the United States, but returned to France in 1796. The following year he was appointed minister of foreign af- fairs; but being suspected of keeping up an understanding with the agents of Louis XVIII. he was obliged to resign in JulJ^ 1799. He now devoted himself entirely to Bonaparte, and after the latter's return from Egypt contributed greatly to the events of the 18th Brumaire (Nov. 10, 1799), when the directory fell and the consulate began. He was then reap- pointed minister of foreign affairs, and for the next few years was the executant of all Bonaparte's diplomatic schemes. After the establishment of the empire in