Carême's creations soon captured the discriminating eye of a French diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord.
卡莱姆的作品很快吸引了颇具鉴赏目光的法国外交官查尔斯·莫里斯·德·塔利兰·佩里戈尔德的注意。
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Running his eyes over the list, Talleyrand remarked, "one must at least do him the justice of acknowledging that he has omitted none of his friends."
他看了一遍，说：“我们对富歇须公平一点，至少也得承认，他连自己的朋友都写了进去，没有一个遗漏。”
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David Lawday, whose previous book was a life of Talleyrand and who used to be a journalist at The Economist, provides a gripping story, beautifully told.