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Serving The State And Oneself

Douglas Johnson CARDINAL RICHELIEU AND THE MAKING OF FRANCE by Anthony Levi Constable, £20, pp. 327 Vis isitors to the château of Josselin in Brittany are told how it used to be......

That Old Black Magic

Patrick Skene Catling A ter the prolonged carnage of the first world war, Western civilisation seem- ing to have failed, some influential Euro- pean artists rejected what they......