Richelieu, Cardinal

A French clergyman and political leader of the seventeenth century. Cardinal Richelieu was the chief of government under King Louis XIII. He achieved two difficult goals in his career: establishing absolute monarchy in France and breaking the political power of the Huguenots, or French Protestants.

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Richelieu, Cardinal: fomented the first commotions in Scotland, and secretly supplied the Covenanters with money and arms.

Richelieu, Cardinal, administration of, government of France, 79-80; colonial policy, 80.

Richelieu, Cardinal, 88, 94, 239.

Richelieu, Cardinal, scheme of intervention in Germany, ii.

Richelieu, Cardinal de, his general character, ii.

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