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Author : Joseph Bergin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719052386
Presents a biography of Richelieu up to the point where he took ministerial office for the second time in 1624.
Author : Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802778536
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolò Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through his own story and through his portrayal as a ruthless political mastermind in Alexandre Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers. Forging a nation-state amid the swirl of unruly, grasping nobles, widespread corruption, wars of religion, and an ambitious Habsburg empire, Richelieu's hands were always full. Serving his fickle monarch, he mastered the politics of absolute power. Jean-Vincent Blanchard's rich and insightful new biography brings Richelieu fully to life in all his complexity. At times cruel and ruthless, Richelieu was always devoted to creating a lasting central authority vested in the power of monarchy, a power essential to France's position on the European stage for the next two centuries. Richelieu's careful understanding of politics as spectacle speaks to contemporary readers; much of what he accomplished was promoted strategically through his great passion for theater and literature, and through the romance of power. Éminence offers a rich portrait of a fascinating man and his era, and gives us a keener understanding of the dark arts of politics.
Author : Prof. Carl J. Burckhardt
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787206328
First published in English in 1940, this fascinating memoir details Cardinal Richelieu’s rise to power from bishop to cardinal and King Louis XIII’s chief minister. Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 1585 - 4 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII’s chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered. “To the reader of this biography, Richelieu becomes one of the most cunning, far-seeing, and resourceful of statesmen. One sees how the cardinal, bent upon getting behind the wheel of state, overcomes powerful opposition and finally reaches his objective. This is a work by a skilled artist....His book reads like a novel of adventure.”—Franklin C. Palm, Journal of Modern History “Professor Burckhardt has wrought brilliantly. Himself a statesman, he is particularly felicitous in his lucid analysis of complicated diplomatic tangles and his intuitive understanding of political psychology.—Arthur M. Wilson, American Historical Review “A brilliant and profound study.”—Carl J. Friedrich in The Age of the Baroque, 1619-1660
Author : Carl Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:59637809
Author : Carl Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Cardinals
ISBN : LCCN:64001198
Author : James Breck Perkins
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0836958144
Author : Carl J. Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436700868
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Carl J. Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494109212
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Author : James B. Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0899848265
Author : Robert A. Schneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192560827
Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these wars, and the emergence of a strong, 'absolutist' monarchy under the Bourbons, but also the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of a literary culture that would soon be known as French classicism. Casting his net over a wide range of writers and intellectuals, Robert A. Schneider has assembled a roster of more than 100 men and women of letters, those constituting what he calls the 'generation of 1630'. While diverse, and indeed divided between those who hewed to traditional humanism and others more attuned to 'modern' linguistic and literary developments, this cohort largely shared a commitment to a cultural renewal of France, its rise to prominence in the geopolitical arena of Europe, and the emergence of a strong centralized monarchy. They depended on both the traditional aristocracy and the king's powerful minister, Cardinal Richelieu. But despite this dependency, these writers and intellectuals maintained a degree of independence and, more significantly, were the prime movers in crucial cultural developments that are too often identified with royal initiatives. For example, the author demonstrates that the Académie française, founded in 1635 by Richelieu, often considered formative in French cultural history, was actually more the result of the creative initiatives of these men of letters, which the savvy Cardinal only managed to co-opt and turn to the purposes of the crown.
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349192625
Author : William Farr Church
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400867745
The problem of the relationship between moral principles and political necessity, of the purposes of power and the justice of means, has always been a central theme in European history. The ministry of Cardinal Richelieu is a focal point for the problem because it existed during a time when the continuing strength of religiously based political ideas and the growth of the modern state converged. In this major study William F. Church examines Richelieu's policies, his efforts to justify them, and the extensive debates they occasioned. His conclusion, contrary to that of many earlier historians, is that the underlying ideology of the Cardinal's policies was strongly religious and opened the way to secularized reason of state to a very limited degree. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Anthony Levi
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786709316
In an extraordinary drama sweeping across seventeenth-century France, this probing biography of Cardinal Richelieu explores how a man of steely intelligence and ruthless ambition not only fulfilled his dreams of social prestige, personal wealth, and political power but at the same time realized his vision of a France unified as much by its culture as by its king.
Author : William Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104994895
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Armand Jean Du Plessis Du Richelieu
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013822439
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