HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Cardinal Louis
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Cardinal Leonardo
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Cardinal Ferdinand
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Detailed explanation-1: -Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu, byname the Red Eminence, French l’Éminence Rouge, (born September 9, 1585, Richelieu, Poitou, France-died December 4, 1642, Paris), chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cardinal Richelieu’s policy involved two primary goals: centralization of power in France and opposition to the Habsburg dynasty (which ruled in both Austria and Spain). Shortly after he became Louis’s principal minister, he was faced with a crisis in the Valtellina, a valley in Lombardy (northern Italy).
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister, the Cardinal Mazarin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cardinal Richelieu helped strengthen the French monarchy largely by weakening those who might opposed the king and strengthening those who could support him. In the eyes of Richelieu and Louis XIII, the biggest threats to the power of the monarchy were the Huguenots and the nobles.