Richelieu

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1. Richelieu - Noun

2. Richelieu - Proper noun

Meaning

French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu. George Frideric Handel

TURGOT...I present today one of the three greatest statesmen who fought unreason in France between the close of the Middle Ages and the outbreak of the French Revolution-Louis XI and Richelieu being the two other. Andrew Dickson White

A landscape with travellers ambushed outside a small town, painted by Vrancx In December 1640, the Portuguese rose up against Spanish rule and once again Richelieu supplied aid to the insurgents. Source: Internet

Between 1635 and 1642, Richelieu renovated the Sorbonne; he consolidated the Sorbonne with two smaller colleges, and built a complex of new buildings, including a domed chapel, around a large courtyard. Source: Internet

In 1618 Cardinal Richelieu was exiled in Avignon. Source: Internet

Geoffrey Parker, The Thirty Years' War, p. 137. Richelieu wanted to create difficulties for the Spanish at home which might encourage them to withdraw from the war. Source: Internet

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