The Life of Duntanana Tallyrand

July 17 97 marks tallyrand's triumphant return to the public stage. He had been booted from england in 17 94 and then exiled to philadelphia, where he spent the next two years. The triumvirate needed ministers who had experience and who could maybe be trusted. And so barra tapped tallyrand to serve as foreign minister. But if the goal of this ministerial re shuffle was to preserve the directory, putting tallyrand in a key roll was not the hottest idea going.