Kdo chodil s Dorothea von Biron?

Dorothea von Biron (21. srpna 1793 na zámku Friedrichsfelde u Berlína – 19. září 1862 Zaháň, dnes Polsko, tehdy Slezsko, Království Pruské) byla princezna kuronská a poslední vévodkyně Zaháňská.

Jméno, pod kterým byla známa, se v průběhu jejího života několikrát změnilo. Původně se jmenovala Dorothea von Biron, po svém sňatku se v roce 1809 stala hraběnkou de Talleyrand-Périgord. Od roku 1817 se nazývala vévodkyně de Dino (Dino je kalábrijský ostrov), od roku 1838 byla vévodkyní de Talleyrand a konečně od roku 1845 vévodkyní ze Zaháně. Ve francouzské literatuře ji však najdeme pod jménem Dorothée de Courlande, tedy Dorothée Kuronská. Původ tohoto francouzského označení pochází od jejího legitimního otce Petra Birona, posledního vévody Kuronského. Českému čtenáři je známa jako nejmladší sestra Kateřiny Vilemíny Zaháňské, paní kněžny z novely Babička spisovatelky Boženy Němcové.

Théobald Émile Arcambal-Piscatory (6 April 1800 in Paris – 18 November 1870 in Paris) was a French statesman and diplomat.

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (; French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, moʁ-]; 2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. He served as the French representative to the Congress of Vienna. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty and cynical diplomacy.

Talleyrand was Napoleon's chief diplomat during the years when French military victories brought one European state after another under French hegemony. Most of the time, he worked for peace so as to consolidate France's gains. He succeeded in obtaining peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain in the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. He could not prevent the renewal of war in 1803 but by 1805 he opposed his emperor's renewed wars against Austria, Prussia, and Russia. He resigned as foreign minister in August 1807, but retained the trust of Napoleon. He conspired to undermine the emperor's plans through secret dealings with Tsar Alexander I of Russia and the Austrian minister Klemens von Metternich. Talleyrand sought a negotiated secure peace so as to perpetuate the gains of the French Revolution. Napoleon rejected peace; when he fell in 1814, Talleyrand supported the Bourbon Restoration decided by the Allies. He played a major role at the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815, where he negotiated a favorable settlement for France and played a role in unwinding the Napoleonic Wars.

Talleyrand polarizes opinion. Some regard him as one of the most versatile, skilled, and influential diplomats in European history, with a clear-eyed and realistic view of the French national interest. Others, on the other hand, see him as a serial turncoat seeking only his own advantage, betraying the ancien régime, the French Revolution, and Napoleon in turn for his own gain.