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

Cronin was born inTredegar,Monmouthshire, to Scottish physician and novelistA. J. Cronin, and May Gibson, but moved to London at the age of two. He was educated atAmpleforth College,Harvard University, theSorbonne, andTrinity College,Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947, earning a degree inLiterae Humaniores. During theSecond World War, he served as a lieutenant in theBritish Army.^[1]

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

Cronin was a recipient of theRichard Hillary Award, theW. H. Heinemann Award (1955), and theRockefeller Foundation Award (1958). He also contributed to theRevue des Deux Mondes, was the first general editor of theCompanion Guides series, and was on the council of theRoyal Society of Literature.

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

• The Golden Honeycomb: A Sicilian Quest (1954)ISBN 0-246-11125-9
• The Wise Man from the West:Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China (1955)ISBN 0-00-626749-1
• The Last Migration (1957) (on the Falqani tribe of South Persia)ISBN 0-85617-608-7
• "T. S. Eliot as a Translator."T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. Neville Braybrooke, 129–137 (1958)ISBN 0-900391-82-0
• A Pearl toIndia: The Life ofRoberto de Nobili (1959)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
• Louis XIV (1964)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 andHenri Marrou (1964)ISBN 0-232-35604-1
• Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal (1965) (aboutCaroline, duchesse de Berry,Marie D'Agoult,Eve Hanska andMarie Bashkirtseff; also published asThe 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
• Mary Portrayed (1968)ISBN 0-87505-213-4
• "The Classical Ideal in Florence."Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXV: 23–39 (1969)
• Editor,The Companion Guide to theWest Highlands of Scotland by W.H. Murray (1969)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
• Napoleon (1971),ISBN 0-00-637521-9 (also published asNapoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography, 1972,ISBN 0-688-00100-9)
• The Horizon Concise History of Italy (1972)ISBN 0-07-014477-X (also published asA Concise History of Italy, 1973,ISBN 0-304-29236-2)
• Louis and Antoinette (1974)ISBN 0-8095-9216-9
• Translator,Towards a New Democracy byValéry Giscard d'Estaing (1977)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 theCosmos (1981)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
• Nero (2010)ISBN 1-906768-14-5

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