Richelieu


Read by Pamela Nagami

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This short biography of the dreaded red eminence, by the Anglo-French writer and educator, Gustave Masson, combines French wit and English clarity. We see Richelieu as he really was, a gifted and relentless champion of the rising French state and a besotted author of terrible plays. This is a panoramic survey of France in the time of Louis XIII--her overweening aristocrats, her writers great and small, her grand ladies, and her terrible injustices, as when the hapless priest, Urbain Grandier, is sent to the stake for abetting the demonic possession of the nuns of Loudun.
(Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

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Chapter 1: Early Days--The French Court, Pt. 1 20:46 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 1: Early Days--The French Court, Pt. 2 20:50 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 2: The Huguenots, Pt. 1 18:19 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 2: The Huguenots, Pt. 2 19:20 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 1 19:23 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 2 20:00 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 3 24:21 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 1 21:02 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 2 26:35 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 3 15:59 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 4 21:49 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 1 17:58 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 2 22:24 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 3 19:22 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 1 15:19 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 2 15:53 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 3 18:51 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 4 19:01 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 1 21:01 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 2 16:09 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 3 15:55 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 4 17:29 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 8: Literature, Pt. 1 22:28 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 8: Literature, Pt. 2 22:01 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 8: Literature, Pt. 3 20:28 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 9: Fine Arts--General Summary, Pt. 1 19:59 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 9: Fine Arts--General Summary, Pt. 2 18:05 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 9: Fine Arts--General Summary, Pt. 3 15:27 Read by Pamela Nagami
Chapter 9: Fine Arts--General Summary, Pt. 4 16:38 Read by Pamela Nagami