Richelieu: A Tale of France
by G. P. R. James
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George Payne Rainsford James was a British writer who produced a remarkable number of historical novels and romances over the course of his thirty-year career. The sweeping epic Richelieu unfolds amidst the cultural tumult and political shifts of seventeenth-century France..
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- Original title
- Richelieu: A Tale of France
- Original publication date
- 1829
- First words
- The vast Sylva Lida, which in the days of Charlemagne stretched far along the banks of the Seine, and formed a woody screen round the infant city of Paris, has now dwindled to a few thousand acres in the neighbourhood of St. ... (show all)Germain en Laye.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Underneath is engraven the date---one thousand six hundred and eighty-five, with the simple inscription,
“Ci git Claude, Comte de Blenau.”
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 843.92 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction 1900- 2000-
- LCC
- PQ2716 .E94 .J364 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 2001-
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- English
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