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Vincent Cronin


Born
in Tredegar, Wales, The United Kingdom
May 24, 1924

Died
January 25, 2011

Genre
Nonfiction, History


Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.

Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, to Scottish doctor and novelist, A. J. Cronin, and May Gibson, but moved to London at the age of two. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, the Sorbonne, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947, earning a degree in Literae Humaniores. During the Second World War, he served as a lieutenant in the British Army.

In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they had f ...more

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Napoleon
4.21 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 1971 — 44 editions
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Italy: A History
3.84 avg rating — 164 ratings — 4 editions
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Catherine: Empress of All t...
3.93 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1978 — 17 editions
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Louis XIV
3.91 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1964 — 25 editions
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Louis and Antoinette
4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1974 — 20 editions
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The Wise Man from the West
4.39 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1955 — 24 editions
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The Florentine Renaissance
4.11 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1967 — 15 editions
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Nero
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3.26 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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The Flowering of the Renais...
3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions
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The Golden Honeycomb: A Sic...
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1980 — 19 editions
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“I have fought sixty battles, and I assure you that I have learned nothing from all of them that I did not know in the first.”
― Vincent Cronin, Napoleon
tags: battles, learning, napoleon, war
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“It was five forty-nine on the evening of 5 May 1821, and Napoleon was not quite fifty-two years old.”
― Vincent Cronin, Napoleon
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“Above all, Christianity must be presented in a way which Eastern peoples could understand and appreciate.”
― Vincent Cronin, Wise Man Of The West
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