Richelieu

ISBN-13: 9781138565418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Karl Federn

Opis

The Purpose of this history of Cardinal Richelieu is to show the living personality of the man - to show it evolving, reacting to and acted on by other personalities - and to portray the conditions in France as he found them and transformed them.

Spis treści

Chapter I. The Monarchy and the Estates, Chapter II. Henri IV and The Regency of Marie De' Medici, Chapter III. The Bishop of Lucon, Chapter IV. The Death of Concini, Chapter V. Luynes, Chapter VI. The Old Policy, Chapter VII. Richelieu's Work, Chapter VIII. The First Batteles with the Court, Chapter IX. La Rochelle, Chapter X. The Crisis, Chapter XI. Richelieu's War Policy, Chapter XII. The Administration, Chapter XIII. The Depopulated Court, Chapter XIV. The House of Richelieu, Chapter XV. The Conspriracy of Cinq-Mars-The End

O autorze

Karl Federn was a literary translator, he translated from Italian (Dante Alighieri) and English (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman). He emigrated to Denmark in 1933 and 1938 he moved to London, where he made himself a name as a critic of Marxism. His book Captain Latour has been banned in Germany by the Nazis.