Richelieu's

Mr. Blanchard chooses to see Richelieu's achievements as a 17th-century "work in progress."

For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

Richelieu's right-hand man was a barefooted Capuchin friar called Father Joseph, described by Aldous Huxley in the biography "Grey Eminence" as an odd combination of Savonarola and Metternich in his role as chief diplomat; and as chief of intelligence, Joseph had no limits when it came to destroying his master's enemies.

For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

But Richelieu's triumph mattered little: A few days after wringing the concessions from Louis, Richelieu fell ill with pleurisy and died within weeks.

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On Richelieu's death, Pope Urban III famously said: If there is a God, Cardinal Richelieu will have much to answer for.

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Abroad, Richelieu's pragmatism allowed him to enter into alliances with the Swedish King Gustav Adolphus and the German Protestant princes.

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But Richelieu's spy service discovered the plan and Cinq-Mars was arrested.

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To Richelieu's enemies, he was known as "the Red Tyrant," but readers conditioned by Alexander Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" to see Richelieu as an arch villain will be prompted to a rethinking by "Eminence."

For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

Cardinal Richelieu's mole - I am not naive and I have a pretty clear idea of how we have got to this point with many senior politicians speaking like automatons, terrified of uttering anything that could be construed as a "GAFFE".

Why do Charlotte and James feel they cannot stand? Mark Reckons 2009

PS: Thanks to Cardinal Richelieu's mole in the comments on the previous thread for pointing me in the direction of this info.

Archive 2009-07-01 Mark Reckons 2009

PS: Thanks to Cardinal Richelieu's mole in the comments on the previous thread for pointing me in the direction of this info.

Sarah Palin scandal? Mark Reckons 2009