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Cardinal Richelieu

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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.


— Cardinal Richelieu


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Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.


— Cardinal Richelieu


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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.


— Cardinal Richelieu


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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.


— Cardinal Richelieu


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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.


— Cardinal Richelieu


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About Cardinal Richelieu

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Did you know about Cardinal Richelieu?

Richelieu's successes were extremely important to Louis XIII's successor King Louis XIV. The nobility also remained powerless. The novel and subsequent film adaptations depicts Richelieu as a power-hungry unscrupulous and avaricious minister.

Consecrated as a bishop in 1608 he later entered politics becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister" or "First Minister".

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