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Vincent J. Pitts
Louis XIV's vendetta against his disgraced finance minister exposed dark truths about the state's finances.From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on tru
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Vincent J. Pitts
Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France's most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by r
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Richard Lundell, Vincent J. Pitts
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Sixteenth Century Journal. 26:711
This is the first general biography of Charles de Bourbon, Constable of France (1490-1527), to appear for some time. The events of Bourbon's life form a dramatic and compelling story, centering on his treasonable plot to dismember France in 1523; his