Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz (Classic Reprint)
Author: Jean François Paul de Gondi
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780332335872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz At an age when others are scarcely abbés, he is nominated coadjutor to the Archbishop of Paris. But De Gondi is not satisfied. He must have more; he has the ambition to be prime minister, to replace Richelieu and Mazarin. It is to succeed in this aim that he inaugurates the long campaign recounted in his Memoirs, and becomes the directing spirit in the great revolutionary movement, which is the F ronde. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.