Nigel De Brulier
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Nigel De Brulier was an English stage and film actor who began his career in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.
De Brulier c. 1920
Cardinal Richelieu
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Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became
Nigel De Brulier
…first film role was a poet in The Pursuit of the Phantom in 1914. In 1915, he acted in the film Ghosts based on a play by Henrik Ibsen. He portrayed Cardinal Richelieu in the following four films, The Three Musketeers (1921), The Iron Mask (1929), The Three Musketeers (1935) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). He…
Portrait of Richelieu by Champaigne, 1642 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
The young Louis XIII, only a figurehead during his early reign, power actually resting with his mother, Marie de' Medici
Jean Warin, Cardinal de Richelieu 1622 (obverse), 1631
On the "Day of the Dupes" in 1630, it appeared that Marie de Médici had secured Richelieu's dismissal. Richelieu, however, survived the scheme, and Marie was exiled as a result.