Théophraste Renaudot
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Théophraste Renaudot was a French physician, philanthropist, and journalist.
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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
Théophraste Renaudot
…journalist. Born in Loudun, Renaudot received a doctorate of medicine from the University of Montpellier in 1606. He returned to Loudon where he met Cardinal Richelieu and Père Joseph. In the 1610s, Richelieu became more powerful and in 1612 he summoned Renaudot to Paris, partly because of his medical reputation, but…
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.