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    The Duke of Richelieu is an 1818 portrait painting by the British artist Sir Thomas Lawrence of the French Prime Minister Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot...
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  • Duke of Richelieu (French: duc de Richelieu) was a title of French nobility. It was created on 26 November 1629 for Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu...
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    5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (25 September 1766 – 17 May 1822), was a French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. He was known by the courtesy...
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    Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, KG (/ˈvɪlərz/ VIL-ərz; 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was...
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    Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French statesman...
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    Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, 2nd Duke of Richelieu (3 October 1629 – 20 May 1715), was a French naval officer and nobleman. His surname has also...
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    of Francis I of Austria and Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu. These works became the core of the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle. The congress, convened...
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  • 1818 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
    Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu Thomas Sully – Major John Biddle William Turner – The Field of Waterloo David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding...
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    Thomas Lawrence (category English portrait painters)
    Count Nesselrode, 1818 Portrait of the Duke of Richelieu, 1818 Prince of Schwarzenberg, 1819 Napoleon II, c. 1819 Portrait of Lord Liverpool, 1820 Humphry...
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    Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife...
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    Louis XIII (redirect from Louis the 13th)
    Cardinal Richelieu, to govern the Kingdom of France. The King and the Cardinal are remembered for establishing the Académie française, and ending the revolt...
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    few months later with her new husband Claude, Duke of Chevreuse. Louis turned now to Cardinal Richelieu as his advisor, who served as his first minister...
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    downstairs. The sixteenth is “la Basse salle”, where the portraits of king Gustav Adolph (of Sweden), the cardinal Richelieu, and the grand duke of Tuscany...
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    also usually needed networks of their own favourites and relatives to help them carry out the work of government – Richelieu had his "créatures" and Olivares...
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    Cardinal Mazarin (category People of the War of the Mantuan Succession)
    Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris in 1640. After the death of Richelieu in 1642, Mazarin took his place as first minister of Louis XIII, and then of Louis...
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    Richelieu, a trend which began in the 18th century. History of Spain Thirty Years' War Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares Portrait of Duke...
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    promoted to the direction of the school of Rome, and he proposed to accompany Houasse. However, work that he had undertaken for the Duke of Richelieu obliged...
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    In 1749, Maurepas was removed by a coup led by the Duke of Richelieu, putting an end to his period of immense success. He was exiled from Versailles for...
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    demand the disgrace of Richelieu from him, she tried to obtain the dismissal of the minister. After the "Day of the Dupes" (Journée des Dupes) of 10–11...
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    Costanza Piccolomini Bonarelli (category House of Piccolomini)
    by the Sicilian nobleman Fabrizio Valguarnera in 1630. In 1665, when Bernini was in Paris, he saw the artwork in the palace of the Duke of Richelieu and...
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    Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Treviso (French pronunciation: [adɔlf edwaʁ kazimiʁ ʒozɛf mɔʁtje]; 13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835), was...
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    with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, at that time the center of all...
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    of the Levant by Louis XIII of France. After siding with the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici, against Cardinal Richelieu, he fled to Italy with his family...
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    François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680)...
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    1669) was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean...
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    the heir to the Dukedom of Richelieu. From 1634 to 1642, the title was held by Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (1585–1642), 1st Duke of Richelieu...
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    occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during...
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    William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (15 April 1721 [N.S.] – 31 October 1765) was the third and youngest son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland...
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    niece of Richelieu. Condé died in 1686 at the age of 65. His descendants include the present-day pretenders to the thrones of France and Italy, and the kings...
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    Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg (1625) Charles I of England by Anthony van Dyck (1635-6) Cardinal de Richelieu, by Philippe de Champaigne (c. 1642) Antonio...
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