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Richelieu's successes were extremely important to Louis XIII's successor, King Louis XIV. He continued Richelieu's work of creating an absolute monarchy ; in the same vein as the cardinal, he enacted policies that further suppressed the once-mighty aristocracy, and utterly destroyed all remnants of Huguenot political power with the Edict of ...
Louis XIII, his wife Anne, and Cardinal Richelieu became central figures in Alexandre Dumas, père's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers and subsequent television and film adaptations. The book depicts Louis as a man willing to have Richelieu as a powerful advisor but aware of his scheming; he is portrayed as bored and sour, dwarfed by Richelieu's ...
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]
Aug. 12, 2024, marks the 400th anniversary of Cardinal Richelieu assuming the post of the First Minister of France. Born in Paris in 1585, by 1608, the 21-year-old Armand Jean du Plessis became a ...
Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, comte de Chalais. The Chalais conspiracy was a 1626 conspiracy in France directed against Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister. It was the first, but not the last conspiracy of the nobility against the minister.
Taking La Rochelle was a priority for Louis and his chief minister Cardinal Richelieu; it was then the second- or third-largest city in France, with over 30,000 inhabitants, and one of its most important ports. In addition to the customs duties generated by imports, it was also among the biggest producers of salt, a major source of taxes for ...
In December 1630, Louis XIII reduced Anne's court and purged a great amount of her favourites as punishment for a plot in which the queen had cooperated with queen dowager Marie de' Medici in an attempt to depose Cardinal Richelieu, and among those fired were Madame de Motteville and Madeleine du Fargis. [25]
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars The Execution of Cinq-Mars and de Thou. The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhone by Paul Delaroche.. Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi kwafje də ʁyze]; 1620 – 12 September 1642) was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France, who led the last and most nearly successful of many conspiracies ...