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This three-volume work by Julia Pardoe, the author of other books on French royalty, was originally published in 1852. In astonishing detail the books describe the colourful and controversial life of Marie de Medicis, who in 1600 married Henry IV of France after his marriage to Marguerite de Valois had been annulled to make way for this dynastic alliance. The consort's life both before and after her marriage was one of flamboyant living and political intrigue. The work is a complex biography, full of information on every detail of a remarkable life at the centre of European politics. Each volume is illustrated and annotated with references to original documents. This last volume describes events including Louis' assertion of royal authority, the rise to power and influence of Cardinal Richelieu, and finally Marie's death in 1642. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=pardju

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Author:   Julia Pardoe
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9780511751165

ISBN 10:   0511751168
Publication Date:   05 August 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

9. 1617. The royal forces march against the insurgent princes; 10. 1617. The Count de la Péna; Book III. Marie de Medicis as Exile: 1. 1618. De Luynes resolves to compel the Queen-mother to remain at Blois; 2. 1619. The Duke d'Epernon leaves Metz; 3. 1620. Louis XIII creates several Knights of the Holy Ghost without references to the wishes of his mother; 4. 1621–24. Attempt to secure a cardinal's hat for Richelieu frustrated by de Luynes; 5. 1625-28. Death of James I; 6. 1629. Richelieu resolves to undermine the power of Austria; 7. 1630. Gaston returns to France; 8. 1631. Richelieu interdicts all correspondence between Anne of Austria and the King of Spain; 9. 1632. Gaston d'Orleans proceeds to Brussels; 10. 1633. Monsieur returns to Flanders; 11. 1634. Increasing trials of the exiled Queen; 12. 1635–38. Richelieu resolves to accomplish the disgrace of Puylaurens; 13. 1639–42. Charles I dispatches an envoy to Louis XIII to negotiate the recall of the Queen-mother.

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