Richelieu

About this film

LibriVox recording of Richelieu by George Joseph Gustave Masson. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. 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.) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (270MB)

Directors & creators

George Joseph Gustave Masson

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Richelieu; Huguenots; louis xiii; henry iv of france; rene descartes; pere joseph; marie de medici; gustave d'orleans; cinq-mars; gallican chuch; seige of la rochelle

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