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To: Taro who wrote (238940)	6/28/2005 3:44:28 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572079

Re: Besides (some of) the French, finally some people who love Chirac! Jacques Chirac is but the modern avatar of John Cantacuzene... The Reluctant Emperor A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c. 1295–1383 Donald M. Nicol [...] (ISBN-10: 0521552567 \| ISBN-13: 9780521552561) * Also available in Paperback * Published March 1996 \| 217 pages \| 216 x 138 mm [...] John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and literate of all Byzantine histories. Following his abdication in 1354, he lived the last thirty years of his life as a monk, a writer and a grey eminence behind the throne. This book is not a social or political history of the Byzantine Empire in the fourteenth century. It is a biography of a much maligned man who had a hope, however naive, of coming to terms with the emerging Muslim world of Asia and of winning the co-operation of western Christendom without compromising the Orthodox faith of the Byzantine tradition. cambridge.org Who knows, maybe 500 years from now, some historian will write the following biography: The Reluctant European A Biography of Jacques Chirac, European Statesman and Catholic, c. 1932–20XX Donald M. Nicol [...] (ISBN-10: 0521552567 \| ISBN-13: 9780521552561) * Also available in Paperback * Published March 2505 \| 217 pages \| 216 x 138 mm