Richelieu — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Richelieu — Cardinal and chief minister to Louis XIII, from 1624 until his death in 1642

A younger son of an obscure house who took orders to keep a bishopric for his family, he governed for eighteen years beside a king who did not like him and kept him nonetheless. He humbled the great, took the Protestants’ strongholds, went to war against the house of Austria, and founded an academy for the language. (Editorial synthesis)

Richelieu was born on 9 September 1585. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Richelieu was born in Paris. (source: Larousse)

Richelieu died on 4 December 1642. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Richelieu died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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