Cardinal’s Loot
J.M. Roberts, 23 January 1986
Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth
by Joseph Bergin.
Yale, 341 pp., £20, November 1985,0 300 03495 4 Show More
by Joseph Bergin.
Yale, 341 pp., £20, November 1985,
Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600-1814
by Kathryn Norberg.
California, 366 pp., £31.95, October 1985,0 520 05260 9 Show More
by Kathryn Norberg.
California, 366 pp., £31.95, October 1985,
France 1789-1815: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
by D.M.G. Sutherland.
Collins/Fontana, 493 pp., £14.95, October 1985,0 00 197178 6 Show More
by D.M.G. Sutherland.
Collins/Fontana, 493 pp., £14.95, October 1985,
“... history, general or particular, should do: it offers an adjustment to our view of a whole past. Dr Norberg lights up the Ancien Régime from a wholly different angle. Again, the central theme seems, at first sight, a narrow one: the relations of rich and poor in a small provincial city of France – Grenoble was somewhat smaller than Taunton is today ... ”
