Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND. Print: Réponse de M. l'Évêque d'Autun au chapitre de l'église cathédrale d'Autun, May 29, 1790 (Paris, Imprimerie nationale); in-8, 8pp. Talleyrand refuses to sign a petition from certain members of the clergy, deputies to the National Assembly. The petition was intended as a protest against the laws and decrees of the Constituent Assembly, with the clergy using the sanctity of their office to incite the people to disobey the laws.