Richelieu and the French Monarchy by C.V. Wedgwood [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1967 • Collier

Richelieu and the French Monarchy by C.V. Wedgwood 

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1967] COLLIER BOOKS

3rd printing.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.  Clean, tight and seemingly unread.

Cover has tanning to wraps and a spot of sticker damage near spine.

Pages are bright, white and read good as new. 

Small stamp and a red pen marking on underside of cover. 

It is the measure of Richelieu's greatness that it should be so difficult to imagine the growth of the French monarchy, or the development of Europe in the seventeenth century, without him. The Cardinal was a personality so dominating and so impressive that in his lifetime almost every event in Europe, however remote, would be ascribed to his secret interference.