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Richelieu's primary business is the distribution of specialty hardware products. Products distributed by Richelieu include cabinet parts (such as hinges), decorative products (such as doorknobs and mouldings), and kitchen accessories (such as cutlery trays). [2] [4] Its primary customers are cabinet, furniture, door, and window manufacturers. [6]
[8] When he was five years old, Richelieu's father died of fever in the French Wars of Religion, [9] leaving the family in debt; however, with the aid of royal grants, the family was able to avoid financial difficulties. At the age of 9, young Richelieu was sent to the College of Navarre in Paris to study philosophy. [10]
The Mack Super-Liner is a model line of Class 8 trucks produced by Mack Trucks.Produced in North America from 1977 to 1993, [1] the model line was a conventional-cab tractor configured primarily for highway and vocational applications, serving as the flagship conventional of the Mack product line in North America.
A great part of Richelieu's correspondence with Pozzo di Borgo, Capo d'Istria and others, with his journal of his travels in Germany and the Turkish campaign, and a notice by the duchesse de Richelieu, is published by the Imperial Russian Historical Society, vol. 54.
Upon Richelieu's death in 1642 the palace became the property of the King and acquired the new name Palais-Royal. [1] After Louis XIII died the following year, it became the home of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria and her young sons Louis XIV and Philippe, duke of Anjou, [4] along with her advisor Cardinal Mazarin.
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.
Jean Bart was a French fast battleship, the second and final member of the Richelieu class.Built as a response to the Italian Littorio class, the Richelieus were based on their immediate predecessors of the Dunkerque class with the same unconventional arrangement that grouped their main battery forward in two quadruple gun turrets.
As designed, the light anti-aircraft battery was to have consisted of 37 mm (1.5 in) automatic guns in twin Mle 1935 mounts, but these were not ready by 1939, and so the two amidships 152 mm turrets were replaced with a group of twelve 100 mm (3.9 in) /45 Mle 1930 anti-aircraft guns in twin turrets.