1652

by David Parrott

David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and re-entered France at the head of an army. The political and military crisis that followed convulsed the nation, and revived the ebbing fortunes of a revolt led by the cousin of the young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019879746X
• ISBN13: 9780198797463
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"