Jean François Paul de Gondi

Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (20 September 1613 – 24 August 1679) was a French churchman, memoirist, and an agitator in the Fronde.

Quotes

• Il n’y a rien dans ce monde qui n’ait un moment decisif.
  • There is nothing in the world that does not have its decisive moment.
  • Mémoires, II, as reported by Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography (2005), p. 180

External links

• Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (Boston: L. C. Page & Co. Inc., 1899)
  • David Widger, Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz by Retz