The Napoleon movie is so wrong on history, doesn’t even have Russian front man and tsarist appeasing conman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
conspired to undermine the emperor’s plans through secret dealings with Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Austrian minister Metternich.
His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name “Talleyrand” has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.
This dude did his Jobe