Queen and Cardinal
Subtitle: A Memoir of Anne of Austria and of Her Relations With Cardinal Mazarin
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781417952120
Subjects: Royalty; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: ON a bright morning in late autumn in 1615 a long cavalcade of gentlemen, followed by soldiers bearing spears and pennants glistening in the sunlight, might have been seen descending the steep road leading down to the Spanish border, where the rushing waters of the Bidassoa flowed through the rich valley.