Another very interesting work of this expert author of modern history. Here the author addresses a biography of Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of finances. The problem is that the 200 to 300 ° pages are pretty indigestible: The rise of clan Fouquet
The author is, as we know, always very precise or too specific, so that the book loses lightness .It must be ferru history to not lose a crumb of this book which, moreover m has generally enjoyed .Déconseillé on the beach!
Fouquet dies in Pinerolo in 1660 and Colbert in Paris in 1683. Fouquet and Colbert finished brewing duck ... One lives Our Lord, Histrio I, will attend the Illuminati of his caste ... the other ends in block hence the expression: it smells Colbert ".
200 pretty tough first pages: the rise of Fouquet, the game client, with many details and too many proper names for characters than secondary; with mostly stodgy and lacking education explanations on the functioning of finance and taxation of the tim
I enjoyed this book and I learned a lot. The style is excellent, full account, analyzes are without bias. The author recalls the French finance mechanism under Mazarin, the impact of fronds, the seizure of power by Louis XIV in 1661 and the undermini
I read for the first time a work of AD Petitfils and I must admit that it is a real treat. The writing is clear, limpid, precise. Many works in this category are unfortunately often abstruse; here it is not. I discover with pleasure a quality writer.
