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Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu [a] (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, [b] was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs.
Aug. 12, 2024, marks the 400th anniversary of Cardinal Richelieu assuming the post of the First Minister of France. Born in Paris in 1585, by 1608, the 21-year-old Armand Jean du Plessis became a ...
The twelfth is the cardinal’s antechamber, and on the stove is Hercules painted with this inscription: Armandus Richelieu, Hercules admirandis. The thirteenth is the cardinals chamber, and on the stove stands Saturn. The fourteenth is “le Cabinet” of the cardinal, where are two globes made from metal, one of the sky and one of the earth.
Duke of Richelieu (French: duc de Richelieu) was a title of French nobility.It was created on 26 November 1629 for Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (known as Cardinal Richelieu) who, as a Catholic clergyman, had no issue to pass it down to.
Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu (c. 1635-1640) by Philippe de Champaigne. Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is an oil on canvas painting by Philippe de Champaigne, from c. 1635-1640. It is one of the 21 portraits he produced of cardinal de Richelieu.
Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is a portrait painting by the Flemish-born French painter Philippe de Champaigne, Richelieu's favourite portraitist. It was painted a few months before the cardinal's death, in 1642, and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg. Its inventory number is 987–2–1. [1]
La Rochelle was the greatest stronghold among the Huguenot cities of France, and the centre of Huguenot resistance. Cardinal Richelieu acted as commander of the besiegers when the King was absent. Once hostilities started, French engineers isolated the city with entrenchments 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) long, fortified by 11 forts and 18 redoubts ...
Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu (1633-1640) by Philippe de Champaigne. Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu is one of 21 surviving oil on canvas portraits of cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne. Produced in 1633-1640, it is now in the National Gallery, in London, to which it was presented by Charles Butler in 1895. [1]