ABSTRACT
The rather tame promise of the jacket, that this is 'a biography of Father Joseph, the right-hand man and collaborator of Cardinal Richelieu,' is indeed amply fulfilled. But just as no novel of Aldous Huxley's was ever simply a novel (there are indeed taxonomists of literature for whom no novel of his was ever properly a novel) so this, his first biography, is at the very least much more than a biography.
