Cardinal Richelieu: and the Making of France - Softcover

Levi, Prof Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841193992 ISBN 13: 9781841193991

Publisher: Robinson, 2001

The story of Cardinal Richelieu is one of high drama, ruthless ambition and political intrigue - Anthony Levi's original and compelling biography reveals the extent of this great seventeenth-century statesman's scheming to gain state control over all cultural activities in order to further his aim of unifying France.

Review:

A learned and highly intelligent biography. (The Literary Review)

So colourful is the material and so shrewd Levi's eye for detail that this is an assured and enjoyable introduction to the cardinal that succeeds in its aim of showing how he made France. (Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The Sunday Times)

A detailed, lively and boldly argued work. (The Church Times)

Concise, lucid, entertaining and continually absorbing in its portrait of an allegedly devout mystery wrapped in an enigma. (The Irish Times)

Book Description:

The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback
The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback
The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback
The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback
The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback
The much-acclaimed biography of the man who created a unified France now available in paperback

• Publisher: Robinson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841193992
• ISBN 13: 9781841193991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416