Cardinal de Richelieu: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cardinal de Richelieu, credited to Eleanor C. Price, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cardinal de Richelieu by Eleanor C. Price. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), the dreaded red eminence, mentor and manager of Louis XIII, skilled in logistics, he subdued in battle the unruly Huguenot aristocracy, successfully resisted France's encirclement by the Hapsburg Empire, and laid the foundation for the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV. - Summary by Pamela Nagami

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cardinal de Richelieu
• Author credits: Eleanor C. Price
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 11:46:46

Catalogue topics

• Spain
• Catholic Church
• French history
• thirty years' war
• marie de' medici
• huguenot
• day of the dupes
• louis xiii

Track guide

1. 01 - Pt. I. Early Years. Ch. 1: 1585-1590 — 20:28
2. 02 - Pt. I. Early Years. Ch. 2: 1590-1595 — 14:14
3. 03 - Pt. I. Early Years. Ch. 3: 1595-1607 — 23:07
4. 04 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch.1: 1607-1608 — 29:29
5. 05 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 2: 1608-1610 — 22:20
6. 06 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 3: 1610-1611 — 33:27
7. 07 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 4: 1611-1615 — 21:26
8. 08 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 5: 1615-1616 — 37:14
9. 09 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 6: 1617 — 31:25
10. 10 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 7: 1617-1619 — 36:06
11. 11 - Pt. II. The Bishop of Luçon. Ch. 8: 1619-1622 — 37:36
12. 12 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 1: 1622-1624 — 27:36
13. 13 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 2: 1624-1625 — 36:50
14. 14 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 3: 1626 — 41:17
15. 15 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 4: 1627-1628 — 39:35
16. 16 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 5: 1628-1630. — 32:49
17. 17 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 6: 1630 — 23:35
18. 18 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 7: 1631-1632 — 39:40
19. 19 - Pt. III. The Cardinal, Ch. 8 — 36:25
20. 20 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 9: 1633-1637 — 35:03
21. 21 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 10: 1637-1639 — 33:12
22. 22 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 11: 1639-1642 — 35:08
23. 23 - Pt. III. The Cardinal. Ch. 12: 1642 — 18:43

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