ABSTRACT
The Conference of London was accordingly convened on 4 November 1830 at the Foreign Office, and comprised representatives of Britain, Prussia, Russia, Austria, the Netherlands and of course France. Relations between Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand and Palmerston became strained, to the point where Talleyrand left London on 19 August 1834 declaring that he would never return. In order to overcome the difficulties that his own foreign ministers created for him, Talleyrand developed an important, but parallel communications network with the king through Louis-Philippe's sisters, Madame Adelaie and the Princess de Vaudemont. Talleyrand presented non-intervention by France in Spain as proof of the essentially conservative nature of French foreign policy. The alliance was widely regarded as a great victory for Talleyrand; it bound Britain to France and placed Spain and Portugal in a position of dependency to Paris. Talleyrand died on 17 May 1838 after a spectacular deathbed conversion, thereby denying his revolutionary past.
