Cardinal de Richelieu

The birth of Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu--The position of his family--His great-uncles--His grandfather and grandmother--His father, François de Richelieu, Grand Provost...

Richelieu appointed Chaplain to Queen Anne--Discontent of the Parliament and the Princes--The royal progress to the south--Treaty of Loudun--Return to Paris--Marie de Médicis an...

A contemporary view of the state of France--Barbin, Mangot, and Richelieu--A new rebellion--Richelieu as Foreign Secretary--The Abbé de Marolles--Concini in danger--The death of...

Richelieu at Blois--He is ordered back to his diocese--He writes a book in defence of the Faith--Marriage of Mademoiselle de Richelieu--The Bishop exiled to Avignon--Escape of t...

The Treaty of Angoulême--The death of Henry de Richelieu--The meeting at Couzières--The Queen-mother at Angers--Richelieu’s influence for peace--The battle of the Ponts-de-Cé--I...

Flight from France of the Queen-mother and Monsieur--New honours for Cardinal de Richelieu--The fall of the Marillac brothers--The Duc de Montmorency and Monsieur’s ride to Lang...

The Cardinal and his palaces--The château and town of Richelieu--The Palais-Cardinal--Richelieu’s household, daily life, and friends--The Hôtel de Rambouillet--Mademoiselle de G...

Conquests in Lorraine--The return of Monsieur--The fate of Puylaurens--France involved in the Thirty Years’ War--Last adventures of the Duc de Rohan--Defeat, invasion, and panic...

Victories abroad--The death of the Comte de Soissons--Social triumphs--Marriage of the Duc d’Enghien--The revolt against the taxes--The conspiracy of Cinq-Mars--The Cardinal’s d...

The birth of Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu--The position of his family--His great-uncles--His grandfather and grandmother--His father, François de Richelieu, Grand Provost...

Whether the widow of François de Richelieu was in famine-stricken Paris during the siege--one of those afflicted ladies to whom the good-natured and politic Henry sent provision...

Before Armand de Richelieu was eleven years old, his uncle Amador, who was among the first to recognize the boy’s brilliant gifts, carried him off to Paris and placed him at the...

Richelieu’s return to France, in the early summer of 1607, was a return to Paris and the University, which now saw the unusual sight of a bishop among its students. There were s...

While his coach rumbled and jolted through miry ways towards the south-west, Armand de Richelieu had time to consider what he had done and hoped to do. The objects of his ambiti...

If some of those who were privileged to watch, with short-sighted eyes, Richelieu’s apostolic work in the diocese of Luçon, could have read his thoughts and sometimes looked ove...

Richelieu worked hard in his diocese for the next three years, struggling all the while with ill-health and impatience. He went to Paris once during this time and offered his se...

Richelieu appointed Chaplain to Queen Anne--Discontent of the Parliament and the Princes--The Royal progress to the South--Treaty of Loudun--Return to Paris--Marie de Médicis an...

A contemporary view of the state of France--Barbin, Mangot, and Richelieu--A new rebellion--Richelieu as Foreign Secretary--The Abbé de Marolles--Concini in danger--The death of...

Richelieu at Blois--He is ordered back to his diocese--He writes a book in defence of the faith--Marriage of Mademoiselle de Richelieu--The Bishop exiled to Avignon--Escape of t...

The Treaty of Angoulême--The death of Henry de Richelieu--The meeting at Couzières--The Queen-mother at Angers--Richelieu’s influence for peace--The Battle of the Ponts-de-Cé--I...

On September 5, 1622--Richelieu’s thirty-seventh birthday--the faithful Sébastien Bouthillier sang his _Nunc Dimittis_. Writing from Rome to his brother, he said: “It seems to m...

In the brilliant first chapter of Richelieu’s _Testament Politique_, “Succincte Narration de toutes les grandes Actions du Roi,” written not long before his death, he reminds Lo...

The Duke of Buckingham had to do with a mind immeasurably superior to his own; and if he, in the autumn of 1625, was pushing on a quarrel with France, Cardinal de Richelieu’s ga...

Richelieu had triumphed. Monsieur was safely married; for the moment contented and _rangé_. The restless, foolish, unhappy Chalais was dead; the Maréchal d’Ornano had died in pr...

A few days after the submission of La Rochelle a great storm destroyed the mole which had been the city’s destruction. Winds and floods devastated the west of France, and the Ca...

Louis XIII., always weak in health, suffered seriously from the pestilential air of that summer. In August he rejoined the Court at Lyons, where he fell ill of fever and dysente...

Flight from France of the Queen-mother and Monsieur--New honours for Cardinal de Richelieu--The fall of the Marillac brothers--The Duc de Montmorency and Monsieur’s ride to Lang...

The restless, ambitious energy and the passion for detail which made Cardinal de Richelieu the hardest worker of his time in politics, were thrown equally into his characteristi...

Conquests in Lorraine--The return of Monsieur--The fate of Puylaurens--France involved in the Thirty Years’ War--Last adventures of the Duc de Rohan--Defeat, invasion, and panic...

In Richelieu’s own mind his worst enemies were to be found among his nearest neighbours. “Les intrigues de cabinet,” says M. de Montglat, “donnèrent plus de peine au Cardinal de...

Victories abroad--The death of the Comte de Soissons--Social triumphs--Marriage of the Duc d’Enghien--The revolt against the taxes--The conspiracy of Cinq-Mars--The Cardinal’s d...

In the first days after Cardinal de Richelieu’s return from the south, few persons, certainly not himself, realized that his career was so near its end. The doctors, however, kn...