Richelieu (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Richelieu If the events which mark the early seventeenth century in France are of a stirring character, the dramatic persona stand out in equally strong relief on the canvas where they appear. The late M. Victor Cousin has admirably shown (jacqueline Pascal) the difference which separates the original individualities belonging to those days from the mediocre, commonplace, terre-c't-terre personages of the reign of Louis XIV. How superior Pierre Corneille is, with all his ruggedness, to the tame harmony of Racine! - La Rochefoucauld to La Bruyere1 - Mademoiselle de Montpensier to Madame de Maintenon! La mere Angélique, the Pascals, saint-cyran. Father de Bérulle, correspond to the age of Richelieu and to the Fronde period. As soon as the regency of Anne of Austria comes to an end, we have nothing but pettiness in every stage of political and intellectual life, nothing but a series of blunders - the dispersion of the Port Royal Jansenists, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Chamillart instead of De Lionne, vendome and Villeroi instead of Condé. 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.