Books: Conquering Cardinal

RICHELIEU—Carl J. Burckhardf—Oxford ($3.75).

French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France...