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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 .
Vincent Cronin
Born Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin(1924-05-24 ) 24 May 1924Tredegar , Monmouthshire , UK Died 25 January 2011(2011-01-25) (aged 86)Marbella , Andalusia , Spain Occupation
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Cronin was born in Tredegar , Monmouthshire , to Scottish physician 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 .[1 ]
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In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they had five children. The Cronins were long-time residents of London, Marbella , and Dragey, in Avranches , Normandy , where they lived at the Manoir de Brion .
He died at his home in Marbella on 25 January 2011.[1 ]
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The Golden Honeycomb: A Sicilian Quest (1954) ISBN 0-246-11125-9
The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China (1955) ISBN 0-00-626749-1
The Last Migration (1957) (on the Falqani tribe of South Persia) ISBN 0-85617-608-7
"T. S. Eliot as a Translator." T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. Neville Braybrooke, 129–137 (1958) ISBN 0-900391-82-0
A Pearl to India : The Life of Roberto de Nobili (1959) ISBN 0-246-63709-9
The Letter After Z (1960) (novel)
Translator, L'Amour Profane by Alfred Kern (1961) (novel)
A Calendar of Saints (1963)
The Companion Guide to Paris (1963 - first edition) ISBN 0-00-613765-2
Louis XIV (1964) ISBN 0-00-272072-8
Translator, The Christian Centuries: A New History of the Catholic Church, Volume One: The First Six Hundred Years by Jean Danielou and Henri Marrou (1964) ISBN 0-232-35604-1
Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal (1965) (about Caroline, duchess de Berry , Marie D'Agoult , Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff ; also published as The Romantic Way , 1966)
Editor, The Sunday Times Travel and Holiday Guide (1966) (edited with Elizabeth Nicholas and Leonard Russell)
The Florentine Renaissance (1967) ISBN 0-00-211262-0
Mary Portrayed (1968) ISBN 0-87505-213-4
"The Classical Ideal in Florence." Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXV: 23–39 (1969)
Editor, The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland by W.H. Murray (1969) ISBN 0-13-154774-7
The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969) ISBN 0-7126-9884-1
Editor, The Companion Guide to the North Island of New Zealand by Errol Brathwaite (1970) ISBN 0-00-211139-X
Napoleon (1971), ISBN 0-00-637521-9 (also published as Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography , 1972, ISBN 0-688-00100-9 )
The Horizon Concise History of Italy (1972) ISBN 0-07-014477-X (also published as A Concise History of Italy , 1973, ISBN 0-304-29236-2 )
Louis and Antoinette (1974) ISBN 0-8095-9216-9
Translator, Towards a New Democracy by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1977) ISBN 0-00-216156-7
Catherine, Empress of All the Russias (1978) ISBN 0-00-216119-2
Editor, Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XL (1979) ISBN 0-85115-119-1
Editor, The Companion Guide to Florence by Eve Borsook (1979) ISBN 0-00-216245-8
The View from Planet Earth: Man Looks at the Cosmos (1981) ISBN 0-688-01479-8
Paris on the Eve, 1900-1914 (1989) ISBN 0-312-04876-9
The Renaissance (1992) ISBN 0-00-215411-0
Paris: City of Light, 1919-1939 (1994) ISBN 0-00-215191-X
Chile Rediscovered (2009) ISBN 1-906768-02-1
Nero (2010) ISBN 1-906768-14-5
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