Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire
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Richelieu is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.
Place du Cardinal
Town gate
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
Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire
…sixteen special tribunals or "salt granaries", including that of Richelieu. The village was a 17th-century model "new town". It was built at the order of Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), who had spent his youth there and bought the village of his ancestors; he had the estate raised to a duché-pairie August 1631. He engaged…
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.