[ANONYMOUS]. THE TRUE FATHER JOSEF CAPUCHIN. Appointed to the Cardinalate containing the anecdotal history of Cardinal de Richelieu. THE TRUE FATHER JOSEF CAPUCHIN. Appointed to the Cardinalate containing the anecdotal history of Cardinal de Richelieu. IN SAINT JEAN DE MAURIENNE, AT GASPARD BUTLER, 1704. One volume, in-12, of (2) ff, 589 pp, (11) pp, full contemporary binding in tan basane. Spine with 5 ribbed boards, decorated with gilt and gilt title, gilt roulette on the edges, edges speckled with red. Wear on the lower cover and on the neighboring jaws, rubbing on the corners. "François Le Clerc du Tremblay, so well known under the name of Father Josef which he took when he became a Capuchin, was born in Paris on November 4, 1577. He is the eminence grise of the cardinal of Richelieu himself called eminence rouge"... Uncommon work. Rare Savoisian printing. First edition. Contrary to the attribution of Barbier, it cannot be the abbot Richard who published two years earlier a very eulogistic biography. The anonymous author of this work attacks this too flattering version and claims to restore the truth about Richelieu's eminence grise. With the bookplate of the Library of M. Delasize.