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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • French cardinal and politician. As chief minister of Louis XIII he worked to strengthen the authority of the monarchy and directed France during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
  • A river of southern Quebec, Canada, flowing about 170 km (105 mi) north from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River.

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  • noun French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)

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Examples

  • BAIRD'S works on _Huguenots_; Perkins, _France under Richelieu and Mazarin_ (2 vols.); Hanotaux, _Richelieu_ (2 vols.).

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

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  • One of the carriages held up at the bridge that day contained the bishop of Lucon, Armand-Jean du Plessis—the title "de Richelieu" was not yet his—who was a minister in the regency and a subordinate of Concini's.

    For King And Country Henrik Bering 2011

  • The Richelieu is a better fish pond, and these forests are

    The Refugees Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • His Hamlet is perhaps his most finished part, as his Richelieu is the most popular with the masses.

    Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887

  • His Hamlet is perhaps his most finished part, as his Richelieu is the most popular with the masses.

    Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • Standing by the tomb of Richelieu, which is one of the finest pieces of sculpture in Europe, he exclaimed,

    The Empire of Russia 1841

  • In a moment all was destroyed; past prosperity, hopes of the future; it needed a whole century, a minister called Richelieu and a king called Louis the Fourteenth, to cicatrize the wound made in France by Ravaillac's knife.

    Une fille du régent. English Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • The mouth of the Richelieu was the usual place of meeting.

    Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

  • Of course, these countless gallantries in the most licentious persons of the day, such as Richelieu or Saxe, were neither more nor less than an outbreak of sheer dissoluteness, such as took place among English people of quality in the time of the

    Voltaire 2007

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