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Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu [a] (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, [b] was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs.
The conspirators hatched a plot to assassinate Richelieu at Fleury-en-Bière, at his home, while Gaston was visiting him. During a feigned dispute between Gaston’s gentlemen, Chalais was to assassinate Richelieu with his sword. [7] However Chalais confided in his uncle, who ordered him to confess the whole affair to the king and the cardinal. [8]
Having first entered government in 1616, Cardinal Richelieu's policy was to 'arrest the course of Spanish progress', and 'protect her neighbours from Spanish oppression'. Unlike many of his colleagues, he primarily opposed the Huguenots because their autonomy threatened the strong, centralised state needed to defeat Spain, rather than because ...
Marie de' Medici confronts Cardinal Richelieu before Louis XIII.Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1901). Day of the Dupes (in French: la journée des Dupes) is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power. [1]
The Peace of Alais, also known as the Edict of Alès or the Edict of Grace, was a treaty negotiated by Cardinal Richelieu with Huguenot leaders and signed by King Louis XIII of France on 28 June 1629.
An illustration of Cardinal Richelieu holding a sword, by H. A. Ogden, 1892, from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton "The pen is mightier than the sword" is an expression indicating that the written word is more effective than violence as a means of social or political change. This sentiment has been expressed with metaphorical contrasts of ...
François Leclerc du Tremblay (4 November 1577 – 17 December 1638), also known as Père Joseph, was a French Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. [1] He was the original éminence grise —the French term ("grey eminence") for a powerful advisor or decision-maker who operates secretly or unofficially.
The Château de Richelieu was an enormous 17th-century château (manor house) built by the French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642) in Touraine. It was demolished for building materials in 1805 and almost nothing of it remains today.