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Cardinal’s Loot

J.M. Roberts, 23 January 1986

Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit of Wealth 
by Joseph Bergin.
Yale, 341 pp., £20, November 1985, 0 300 03495 4
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Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600-1814 
by Kathryn Norberg.
California, 366 pp., £31.95, October 1985, 0 520 05260 9
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France 1789-1815: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 
by D.M.G. Sutherland.
Collins/Fontana, 493 pp., £14.95, October 1985, 0 00 197178 6
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... the Revolution as a great, simple divide, whatever novelty or acceleration it brought with it. Dr Sutherland’s book extends this argument into a general discussion of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic years. It is admirably up-to-date and contains much that will be new to those trying to keep up with the rapid developments of Revolutionary history in the ...

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