Cardinal Richelieu: And the Making of France by: Anthony Levi
Hardcover. NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 327 pages. 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. Clean copy.