Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

320 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 bala...

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