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TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD 



of cylinder and disk records to supply the in- 

 creasing demand for these articles has become 

 a mammoth and profitable industry, and one 

 that has called into service the highest techni- 

 cal skill. Popular singers whose voices are re- 

 corded are paid on the basis of royalties, and 

 incomes from this source run into thousands of 

 dollars a year. 



Talking machines may be bought for $15.00 

 or less which are more perfect than the best 

 instruments made about the year 1900. From 

 this low price the cost of more elaborate ma- 

 chines varies from $50 to $500. G.B.D. 



TALLADEGA, talade'ga, ALA., the county 

 seat of Talladega County, situated in the north- 

 central part of the state sixty miles east of 

 Birmingham, the largest city in the state. It 

 is served by the Southern, the Birmingham & 

 Atlantic and the Louisville & Nashville rail- 

 roads. Talladega is a trade center for white 

 marble, and contains cotton and cottonseed-oil 

 mills, a chemical plant and manufactories of 

 hosiery and fertilizers. 



Here are located state schools for the deaf, 

 dumb and blind, Talladega College (Congrega- 

 tional) for colored students, a Presbyterian col- 

 lege for young ladies and an orphans' home un- 

 der control of that denomination. The city 

 also contains a Carnegie Library. Talladega is 

 located on ground that was the scene of a bat- 

 tle fought in 1813 between Creek Indians and 

 an American force under General Jackson. In 

 1911 the commission form of government was 

 adopted. Population in 1910, 5,854. 



TALLAHASSEE, tola has 1 e, FLA., the state 

 capital and the county seat of Leon County, 

 centrally situated in the northern part of the 

 state, 165 miles west of Jacksonville and 234 

 miles east of Pensacola. Railroad service is 

 provided by the Georgia, Florida & Alabama 

 and the Seaboard Air Line roads. In 1910 the 

 population was 5,018. 



Tallahassee is situated in a semimountainous 

 country made attractive by abundant tropical 

 vegetation and several beautiful lakes. The 

 surrounding section is an agricultural district 

 producing cotton, tobacco and sugar cane. The 

 important industrial establishments of the place 

 are manufactories of cottonseed oil, lumber, iron 

 products, cigars and naval stores. The city is 

 the seat of the Florida State College for Women 

 and of a state normal school. Here also is lo- 

 cated the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical 

 College (colored), a part of the equipment of 

 which is the Carnegie Library. The governor's 

 mansion, supreme court library, state public 



library, Federal building and Elks' Club are the 

 most notable buildings. Charles Louis Napo- 

 leon Achille Murat (the eldest son of the fa- 

 mous French cavalryman who was king of Na- 

 ples from 1808 to 1815) came to America about 

 1821 and made his permanent home two miles 

 west of Tallahassee. In 1826 he married the 

 daughter of Col. Bird C. Willis of Virginia. 

 Both he and his wife are buried in the Catholic 

 cemetery at Tallahassee. 



The Seminole Indians who originally occu- 

 pied this territory were expelled, and a settle- 

 ment was made here about 1818. It became 

 the capital of the territory of Florida in 1824, 

 and remained the state capital after the admis- 

 sion of Florida into the Union in 1845. Before 

 the War of Secession, Tallahassee was a social 

 center and residence city for wealthy Southern 

 planters. F.R.S.P. 



TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD, tah leh rahN' 

 paregohr' (in English, tal'irand), CHARLES 

 MAURICE, Duke de, Prince of Benevento (1754- 

 1828), a famous French statesman, born in Paris, 

 and, next to Napoleon, the leading political 

 character of his time. Though an eldest son, 

 he was forced by lameness, which resulted from 

 an accident in his childhood, to give up a mili- 

 tary career, and was destined by his family for 

 the Church. At Saint Sulpice, where he was 

 trained, he showed neither inclination nor apti- 

 tude for religious life, but continued his studies, 

 however, and in 1775 was ordained. In 1780 

 he was made agent-general of the clergy of 

 France, and in that position showed the admin- 

 istrative ability which in 1789 secured his ap- 

 pointment as bishop of Autun. In that same 

 year he was elected deputy to the States-Gen- 

 eral from Autun, and at once took rank as one 

 of the foremost reformers. 



Supported State above Church. He was one 

 of the committee appointed to draw up a con- 

 stitution and was a signer of the Declaration 

 of Rights, 'and by his advocacy of the confis- 

 cation of Church lands won great popularity. 

 Because he took the oath to the constitution 

 and acknowledged the supremacy of the State 

 he was excommunicated by the Pope in 1791, 

 and in that same year resigned his bishopric. 

 Meanwhile he had been a founder of the Friends 

 of the Constitution, afterward the Jacobin Club, 

 and had, in 1790, been elected president of the 

 National Assembly; but like Mlrabeau, with 

 whom he usually identified himself, he was not 

 violent enough to please the radicals, and gradu- 

 ally lost influence. Thus, while in England on 

 a diplomatic mission in 1792, he was declared 



