Grey Eminence

For the French phrase, see éminence grise.

Grey Eminence
First UK edition (publ. Chatto & Windus)
Author	Aldous Huxley
Subject	François Leclerc du Tremblay
Genre	Biography
Publication date	1941

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics is a book by Aldous Huxley published in 1941. It is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu. He was also known as Father Joseph and as l'éminence grise; that phrase originally referred to du Tremblay.

Political and economic commentator David P. Goldman called this book "[t]he best book on the intelligence operations of the French state" during the Thirty Years' War.^[1]

Aldous Huxley

Novels	Crome Yellow (1921) Antic Hay (1923) Those Barren Leaves (1925) Point Counter Point (1928) Brave New World (1932) Eyeless in Gaza (1936) After Many a Summer (1939) Time Must Have a Stop (1944) Ape and Essence (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (1955) Island (1962)

Short story collections	Limbo (1920) Mortal Coils (1922) Little Mexican (1924) Two or Three Graces (1926) Brief Candles (1930) Collected Short Stories (1957)

Non-fiction	The Perennial Philosophy (1945) Grey Eminence (1941) The Devils of Loudun (1952) The Doors of Perception (1954)

Poetry	The Burning Wheel (1916) Jonah (1917) The Defeat of Youth (1918) Leda (1920) Arabia Infelix (1929) The Cicadias and Other Poems (1931) Collected Poetry (1971)

Travel writing	Along the Road (1925) Jesting Pilate (1926) Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Essay collections	On the Margin (1923) Essays New and Old (1926) Proper Studies (1927) Do What You Will (1929) Vulgarity in Literature (1930) Music at Night (1931) Texts and Pretexts (1932) The Olive Tree (1936) Ends and Means (1937) Words and their Meanings (1940) Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) Themes and Variations (1950) Adonis and the Alphabet (1956) Heaven and Hell (1956) Collected Essays (1958) Brave New World Revisited (1958) Literature and Science (1963) The Human Situation: 1959 Lectures at Santa Barbara (1977) Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1999)

Screenplays	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Madame Curie (uncredited, 1943) Jane Eyre (1943) A Woman's Vengeance (1947) Prelude to Fame (1950) Alice in Wonderland (uncredited, 1951)

Radio script	"Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (1956, published 1997)

Plays	The Discovery (1924) The World of Light (1931) The Gioconda Smile (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Ambassador of Captripedia (1965) Now More Than Ever (1997)

Other books	The Art of Seeing (1942) The Crows of Pearblossom (1944 children's book, published 1967) Selected Letters (2007)

References

↑ David P. Goldman, "Civil War as the Second-Best Option," PJ Media, December 23, 2011.

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