The new Grey Power

In 1941, Aldous Huxley published “Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics”. It was the biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay. This French Capuchin friar was also known as l’éminence grise because of a robe he used to wear and because, although he was not a cardinal, he was as influential as one, in his role as advisor to His Eminence the Cardinal de Richelieu. Twice removed from the official source of power – Richelieu was in his turn