Jean Vincent Blanchard: 2 books
Éminence
Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians,...
At the Edge of the World
The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey.
An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in...