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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.
Uniforms of Musketeers of the Guard, 1660-1814. Shortly after the Musketeers were established, a second company was founded to report to Cardinal Richelieu. At the cardinal's death in 1642, the company passed to his successor Cardinal Mazarin, who disbanded his Musketeers in 1646. He revived the Musketeers in 1657 with a company of 150 men.
The musketeers catch Milady before she reaches Richelieu. Summoning a local executioner, they put Milady on trial, sentence her to death, and have her executed. The executioner reveals that it was he who branded Milady as a felon years before after she, a young nun at the time, seduced and then abandoned his brother, a local priest.
Oddly, it also softens the book’s primary antagonist, Cardinal Richelieu (Eric Ruf), effectively diluting the looming risk of war with the Protestants. Bourboulon isn’t the first filmmaker to ...
But it was another Frenchman, Armand Jean du Plessis, known to history as Cardinal Richelieu (yes, one of the characters of Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers”) who, under the authority ...
He travels to Paris, where he meets the Three Musketeers. The Three Musketeers and d'Artagnan cause trouble around Paris and frequently fight with Cardinal Richelieu's guardsmen. d'Artagnan falls in love with Constance, the Queen's seamstress. Cardinal Richelieu forges a letter from Anne to the Duke of Buckingham inviting him to Paris.
Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France.She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story.
The Red Sphinx is a sequel to The Three Musketeers, written by Dumas but left incomplete after 75 chapters.It is a sequel in story terms, but none of the Musketeers appear; the story chiefly follows Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII, and a new hero, the Count of Moret (based on the real-life Antoine de Moret).