Grey Eminence

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Grey Eminence
First UK edition (publ. Chatto & Windus)
Author	Aldous Huxley
Subject	François Leclerc du Tremblay
Genre	Biography
Publication date	1941

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics is a book by Aldous Huxley published in 1941. It is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu. He was also known as Father Joseph and as l'éminence grise; that phrase originally referred to du Tremblay.

Political and economic commentator David P. Goldman called this book "[t]he best book on the intelligence operations of the French state" during the Thirty Years' War.^[1]

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Short story collections	Limbo (1920) Mortal Coils (1922) Little Mexican (1924) Two or Three Graces (1926) Brief Candles (1930) Collected Short Stories (1957)

Non-fiction	The Perennial Philosophy (1945) Grey Eminence (1941) The Devils of Loudun (1952) The Doors of Perception (1954)

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