Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval (24 February 1736, Masevaux, Haut-Rhin – 31 December 1812, Paris), was a French diplomat and government minister of...

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord by Baron Gérard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Works by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord...

became more risky. The French opposite number of von Goertz, the marquis de Rayneval, understood this, and also that a victory of the democrats in the Republic...