Tallemant des Réaux, Gédéon, French writer, native of La Rochelle; author of a voluminous collection of gossipy biographies, or anecdotes rather, “Historiettes,” filling five volumes, which throw a flood of light on the manners and customs of 17th-century life in France, though allowance must be made for exaggerations (1619‒1692).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tallard, Comte de * Talleyrand de Périgord, Charles Maurice, Prince of Benevento