Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND (1754-1838) Autograph manuscript; 1 page in-fol. (paper a little yellowed). Speech in response to an interpellation about an ordinance on the peerage; the manuscript has two corrections. "The purpose of this ordinance was to give to certain acts that it was impossible not to notice an interpretation which allowed not to draw more rigorous consequences from them [...This is what it would be easy to prove if all sorts of conveniences did not prevent us from recalling and qualifying according to the eternal principles of law events over which the king's goodness, in agreement with the interest of the whole of society, has forever extended the veil of oblivion. I hope, therefore, that the Chamber, which wishes to maintain in its bosom the spirit of union and peace, will find that I should not go any further and that I have said enough...