Cardinal Richelieu (1585%E2%80%931642) may be best known from Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers as a man even more powerful than the French king. In this ...
Cardinal Richelieu was the statesman who was responsible for turning France into one of the great powers of Europe in the 17th century. In 1624 he was appointed King Louis XII’s chief minister, and he ...
<br>In the West, Cardinal Richelieu has come to embody that historical archetype of the scheming hand behind a king. Working his way up from minor nobility to the highest echelons of power in the ...
History, like a bad Sonoran hot dog, can repeat itself. It can leave a bad taste or, at worst (wurst?), cause you to reconsider some of your choices. If you were paying attention in 17th century ...
RICHELIEU by D. P. O’Connell. 436 pages. World. $10. It was the worst of times: the first half of the 17th century. Spain rotted. The German principalities writhed. Sweden, France, Spain and even ...
Have American foreign policy elites forgotten how to do strategy? This is no mere academic question; thousands of lives and long-term national interests are at stake ...
THE strange life and personality of Father Joseph of Paris, a Capuchin of the Capuchins, a mystic of the mystics, a man who disciplined himself to the point of exhaustion every day he lived, who as ...
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