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...e Wignerod. At the death of the cardinal, he inherited his title of Duc de Richelieu. He also became the general of the galleys from his father, Francois de Wig ...

...He tried to convince Queen Anne to give up such a cruel siege and to fire Cardinal Mazarin. Doing this, he risked his own life, because he could have been co ...

..., warm personality. Anne of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, and the Ladies of Charity were among those making sizeable gifts, particip ...

...s exposed to, caused a serious illness which finally caught up with him in Richelieu. On this subject he used to say that we must practice mortification in ever He was such an enemy of his own body that the late Cardinal de la Rochefoucault once asked him to moderate his penances and austerities ...

...ecoming overly tired and so he wrote the confreres: ''I can appreciate the Cardinal Archbishop’s reason for not granting you any respite in your work, on the g ...e was a pastor who told me, almost in public, that he had come so that the Cardinal would have his income increased. He came with the intention of ridiculing ...

...other ordinary citizens. During this period Rochelle was captured (1626), Richelieu entered the city of Montauban (1629) and the Peace of Ales (1629) was signe ...riod a foreign war was being waged as a result of the policies of Cardinal Richelieu … a war that seemed to alternate between success and defeat. These success ...

'''Homily of Cardinal Rodé: On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the death of Saint Vincen Franc Cardinal Rodé, C.M. (Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life ...

...e other ordinary citizens. They laid siege to Rochelle in 1626, in 1629 Richelieu entered Mondauban and in the same year the peace of Ales was established wh ...od the foreign war that was promoted by the policy of grandeur of Cardinal Richelieu alternated between success and reversals. But whether there was success or ...

...oubles referred to here are those of the Fronde, eventually put down under Cardinal Mazarin.> Towards the end of 1648 as this tempest began, Their Majesties we ...nted to the queen he spent nearly an hour with her. Afterwards he met with Cardinal Mazarin for a long time. He was well received by both, who appreciated his ...

...o defend Catholicism. At the same time, and for purely political reasons, Richelieu took the side of the Protestants. As a result, the values of peace and gen ...penalty on those who, for a second time, were guilty of this offense. The cardinal showed his power when in 1632 he had Montomrency-Bouteville [5] decapitated ...

...d to this most destructive situation, Vincent spoke directly with Cardinal Richelieu. Those who have studied the life of Saint Vincent consider this event as h ...e. Vincent met with Mazarin and had a lengthy conversation with him. The cardinal ceded and the house in Rome was not closed. ...

...ed him from this life. <ref>He was released from prison after the death of Richelieu in December 1642. He himself died the following year at the age of sixty-tw To begin with, among other things he did, he wrote to a cardinal, <ref>Jerome Grimaldi.</ref> on October 4, [[1646]], as follows: ...

...(September 11, 1652) addressed to Cardinal Mazarin in which the asked the cardinal ro resign his position and leave the country because he considered him to b ...

...ieu himself donated a sum to launch the Confraternity in the new parish at Richelieu.[10] In addition, the Charities often received the right from municipal aut ...centage of the income of notarial offices, such as those near the house of Richelieu.[37] ...

...nd Fouquier were other dynasties that settled in different dioceses. Since Richelieu considered the virtuous nobility a requisite for a good bishop,[4] most of ...’s hat. They were many indeed yet never as numerous as the ten dioceses of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Proverbial was the wealth of Mazarin, an obvious result ...

...aded for peace: ''Let us have peace. Have pity on us. Give France peace.'' Richelieu refused, responding diplomatically that peace did not depend on him alone. ...

...Chantal, Madame Goussault, and duchesse d’Aiguillon (the niece of Cardinal Richelieu). Vincent de Paul utilized this communication of sentiments as a means of ...xcellency, Jean François de Gondi, the general’s brother, the successor to Cardinal de Retz as leader of the Church in Paris, and later its first archbishop. ...

...), Crécy, Our Lady of Rose, Agen, Le Mans, Cahors, Saintes, Troyes, Lucon, Richelieu, Reims, Noyon and Angulema. These retreats also spread to Italy: Genoa and ...nt Sulpice), Bossuet (a noted preacher), Jean-François de Gondi (later the cardinal of Retz). ...

...ar 1500, eleven at about the year 1600 and about eight between the time of Richelieu and Colbert. The value plummeted by twelve. Higher in value than the pound ...though they were the leeches of the kingdom, according to an expression of Richelieu, the Old Regime could not overcome them, just as they themselves could not ...

...he was the niece of Michele de Marillac who was the Keeper of the Seals in Richelieu’s cabinet and who attempted to overthrow the established order which result ...any by the State and the Church, was submitted to the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal de Retz and the King, Louis XIV for their approval. ...