Mazarin: The Crisis Of Absolutism In France
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780415014571 (0415014573)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
In the mid-17th century, France emerged as the dominant power in continental Europe. While this development was the result of a range of historical factors and personages, one of the people who played a decisive role in bringing it about was the Italian-born Jules Mazarin. As chief minister of Franc...