Eminência: Richelieu e a ascensão da França

Synopsis of Eminência: Richelieu e a ascensão da França

«Eminência: Richelieu e a ascensão da França» is the historical biography by Jean-Vincent Blanchard, published by Desassossego in paperback (in Portuguese).

Richelieu, principal minister of Louis XIII, was the architect of seventeenth-century France and its rise as a European power. This biography shows a realist politician who imposed order on the nobility, fought corruption and the wars of religion, and mastered the art of political spectacle. The legend of Richelieu inspired Dumas.

Portuguese translation of the original work «Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France», published in 2011; the Portuguese edition is from 2023.

For readers of history, biography and politics interested in French absolutism and seventeenth-century power strategies.