Citations:cardboard monarch

English citations of cardboard monarch

• 1994, Juliet Vale (translator), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (author), A History of France II: The Royal French State: Louis XI–Henri IV, 1460–1610, Basil Blackwell Ltd, →ISBN, “Introduction: Classic Monarchy”, page 5:

  Finally, under the auspices of a cardboard monarch, we should note the Polish Diet with its liberum veto: the least significant magnate could use this procedure to block the wishes of an otherwise unanimous assembly.