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This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever...

'A devil and a popish one at that': until the mid-twentieth century this was the familiar Anglo-Saxon view of the latest subject in Profiles in Power, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal and Duc de Richelieu. Cold, clever and ruthless, Richelieu governed the destinies of France for...
