{"product_id":"44968-bory-les-cinq-girouettes-ou","title":"BORY (Jean-Louis) – THE FIVE WEATHERVINES or Servitudes and Flexibilities of His Serene Highness the Archchancellor Prince of the Empire Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Duke of Parma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBORY (Jean-Louis), Paris, 1979, in-8, paperback, good condition, 266-[3 ff.] p.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author clarifies this point in his foreword: “Cambacérès won no victories for the simple and excellent reason that he never fought—except within committees (even there, so quick to call for an armistice) and from the rostrum of the assemblies. Blood may have flowed from these debates, from these speeches, but offstage, without the foul stench of plowed fields and meadows transformed into charnel houses, of stripped bodies clothed in the buzzing of flies, which rivets you with horror to the point of nausea. Nor is he one of those who, renouncing an unattainable front row, clutter the horizon. Like Talleyrand, like Fouché, always present, even in their absence (even more present in their absence), in the immediate wings of power, but of action. Cambacérès does not act, he functions. Undoubtedly, he occupies an important place—even without playing a significant role.” Neither black nor white, Cambacérès is a hero. This book is therefore devoted to an anti-hero, an eminence who lacks the candor, much less the weight, of being gray. I have attempted to draw the portrait of a character who eludes portraiture. Because the character has devoured the person.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mémoire du Droit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51963682193755,"sku":"44968","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/0163\/5419\/files\/44968-1.jpg?v=1766942440","url":"https:\/\/www.memoiredudroit.fr\/en\/products\/44968-bory-les-cinq-girouettes-ou","provider":"La Mémoire du Droit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}