Reissues, structures that keep offsprings are historical biographies (more than his novels) where we find both scholarship and a little academic form (following an Alain Decaux, Andre Castelot are still a cut above).
The "Charles V" (1500-1558) (Published by Perrin in 1980) is a work of maturity where the accumulated knowledge of the sixteenth century can trace the life of the great King of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, New -Spain in America, his struggle with his rival Francis I, etc.
-It Was both a Bourguignon, a Hapsburg, an Aragonese and Castilian: and that is all this heritage that the first part of the book revolves dexpliqué to how he became the greatest monarch of the sixteenth century.
-Then The Second Part (the book is divided into two tranches with the hyphenation 1530) explicit the policy of Charles V, the ideologues / theologians behind it, and the dream of "Universal Monarchy" which was his big goal but even for so great a king, it was unreachable ...
Nb.1. Philippe Erlanger was a scholar of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since among his greatest biographies, we find "Charles VII of France," "Louis XIII" and "Richelieu" (a trilogy 1000 p.), "Henry III "" Louis XIV "and" Philip V of Spain "(two centuries after Charles V).
Nb.2. Regarding Charles V, for those who want to go further, I recommend the biography that is a true university fee (written for four hands) of Chaunu and Michèle Escamilla, "Charles V (1516-1556)" in the collection "Texting" for 1200 pages.
