Vincent Cronin

Vincent Cronin
Born	Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin (1924-05-24)24 May 1924 Tredegar, Monmouthshire, UK
Died	25 January 2011(2011-01-25) (aged 86) Marbella, Andalusia, Spain
Occupation	Writer historian editor

Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.

Cronin was born in

In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they had five children. The Cronins were long-time residents of London, Marbella, and Dragey, in Avranches, Normandy, where they lived at the Manoir de Brion. He died at his home in Marbella on 25 January 2011.^[1]

Awards

Cronin was a recipient of the

His publications sold well, but were not always received well by scholars. Reviewer John T. Alexander called Catherine, Empress of All the Russias, a "facile popularization."[2]

Works

• The Golden Honeycomb: A Sicilian Quest (1954)
  ISBN 0-246-11125-9
• The Wise Man from the West:
  ISBN 0-00-626749-1
• The Last Migration (1957) (on the Falqani tribe of South Persia)
  ISBN 0-85617-608-7
• "
  ISBN 0-900391-82-0
• A Pearl to
  ISBN 0-246-63709-9
• The Letter After Z (1960) (novel)
• Translator, L'Amour Profane by Alfred Kern (1961) (novel)
• A Calendar of Saints (1963)
• The Companion Guide to Paris (1963 - first edition)
  ISBN 0-00-613765-2
• ISBN 0-00-272072-8
• Translator, The Christian Centuries: A New History of the Catholic Church, Volume One: The First Six Hundred Years by Jean Danielou and
  ISBN 0-232-35604-1
• Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal (1965) (about
  Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff
  ; also published as The Romantic Way, 1966)
• Editor, The Sunday Times Travel and Holiday Guide (1966) (edited with Elizabeth Nicholas and Leonard Russell)
• The Florentine Renaissance (1967)
  ISBN 0-00-211262-0
• ISBN 0-87505-213-4
• "The Classical Ideal in Florence." Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXV: 23–39 (1969)
• Editor, The Companion Guide to the
  ISBN 0-13-154774-7
• The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969)
  ISBN 0-7126-9884-1
• Editor, The Companion Guide to the North Island of New Zealand by Errol Brathwaite (1970)
  ISBN 0-00-211139-X
• ISBN 0-688-00100-9
  )
• The Horizon Concise History of Italy (1972)
  ISBN 0-304-29236-2
  )
• Louis and Antoinette (1974)
  ISBN 0-8095-9216-9
• Translator, Towards a New Democracy by
  ISBN 0-00-216156-7
• Catherine, Empress of All the Russias (1978)
  ISBN 0-00-216119-2
• Editor, Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XL (1979)
  ISBN 0-85115-119-1
• Editor, The Companion Guide to Florence by Eve Borsook (1979)
  ISBN 0-00-216245-8
• The View from Planet Earth: Man Looks at the
  ISBN 0-688-01479-8
• Paris on the Eve, 1900-1914 (1989)
  ISBN 0-312-04876-9
• The Renaissance (1992)
  ISBN 0-00-215411-0
• Paris: City of Light, 1919-1939 (1994)
  ISBN 0-00-215191-X
• Chile Rediscovered (2009)
  ISBN 1-906768-02-1
• ISBN 1-906768-14-5