Richelieu: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Richelieu, credited to George Joseph Gustave Masson, 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 Richelieu by George Joseph Gustave Masson. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. This short biography of the dreaded red eminence, by the Anglo-French writer and educator, Gustave Masson, combines French wit and English clarity. We see Richelieu as he really was, a gifted and relentless champion of the rising French state and a besotted author of terrible plays. This is a panoramic survey of France in the time of Louis XIII--her overweening aristocrats, her writers great and small, her grand ladies, and her terrible injustices, as when the hapless priest, Urbain Grandier, is sent to the stake for abetting the demonic possession of the nuns of Loudun. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Richelieu
• Author credits: George Joseph Gustave Masson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 9:22:52

Catalogue topics

• Richelieu
• Huguenots
• louis xiii
• henry iv of france
• rene descartes
• pere joseph
• marie de medici
• gustave d'orleans

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Chapter 1: Early Days--The French Court, Pt. 1 — 20:46
2. 02 - Chapter 1: Early Days--The French Court, Pt. 2 — 20:50
3. 03 - Chapter 2: The Huguenots, Pt. 1 — 18:19
4. 04 - Chapter 2: The Huguenots, Pt. 2 — 19:20
5. 05 - Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 1 — 19:23
6. 06 - Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 2 — 20:00
7. 07 - Chapter 3: The Gallican Church, Pt. 3 — 24:21
8. 08 - Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 1 — 21:02
9. 09 - Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 2 — 26:35
10. 10 - Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 3 — 15:59
11. 11 - Chapter 4: The Aristocracy, Pt. 4 — 21:49
12. 12 - Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 1 — 17:58
13. 13 - Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 2 — 22:24
14. 14 - Chapter 5: Foreign Policy, Pt. 3 — 19:22
15. 15 - Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 1 — 15:19
16. 16 - Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 2 — 15:53
17. 17 - Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 3 — 18:51
18. 18 - Chapter 6: Administration and Police, Pt. 4 — 19:01
19. 19 - Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 1 — 21:01
20. 20 - Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 2 — 16:09
21. 21 - Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 3 — 15:55
22. 22 - Chapter 7: The University of Paris, the Jesuits and the Collège of France--Philosophy and Erudition, Pt. 4 — 17:29
23. 23 - Chapter 8: Literature, Pt. 1 — 22:28
24. 24 - Chapter 8: Literature, Pt. 2 — 22:01

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