Author: DOWSON,ERNEST (TRANSLATOR)
Title: MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DUBOIS vol. 1 & 2
Description: New York 1929, 376/ 346 pp., two portraits, binding of vol. 2 has little damage (small hole), left under of front, ill. by Lui Trugo, One more example that in French ancien regime politics the highest ecclesiastical dignities easily combined with utter lack of religiousness or scruples. In spite of that, or perhaps rather thanks to that, Cardinal Dubois could form an alliance with Great Britain that would guarantee European peace and through that free the way for the intellectual modernisation that the 18th century would bring. The Memoirs, as is also a French tradition, are hardly really his but still show intimate knowledge of the time and in any case offer a lively read. (code B-312)

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