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JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 516 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638) , French Capuchin monk, the confidant of Richelieu, was the eldest son of Jean Leclerc du Tremblay, president of the chamber of requests of the parlement of Paris, and of Marie Motier de Lafayette. As a boy he received a careful classical training, and in 1595 made an extended journey through Italy, returning to take up the career of arms. He served at the siege of Amiens in 1597, and then accompanied a
special
  embassy to London. In 1599 Baron de Mafflier, by which name he was known at court, renounced the world and entered the Capuchin monastery of Orleans. He embraced the religious life with
great
  ardour, and became a notable preacher and reformer. In 1606 he aided Antoinette d'Orleans, a nun of Fontevrault, to found the reformed order of the Filles du Calvaire, and wrote a
manual
  of devotion for the nuns. His proselytizing zeal led him to send missionaries throughout the Huguenot centreshe, had become provincial of Touraine in 1613. He entered politics at the conferences of Loudun, when, as the confidant of the queen and the papal
envoy
 , he opposed the Gallican claims advanced by the parlement, which the princes were upholding, and succeeded in convincing them of the schismatic tendency of Gallicanism. In 1612 he began those personal relations with Richelieu which have indissolubly joined in history and legend the cardinal and the " Eminence grise," relations which research has not altogether made clear. In 1627 the monk assisted at the siege of La Rochelle. A purely religious reason also made him Richelieu's ally against the Habsburgs. He had a dream of arousing Europe to another crusade against the Turks, and
believed that the
house
  of Austria was the obstacle to that universal European peace which would make this possible. As Richelieu's agent, therefore, this modern Peter the Hermit mancxuvred at the diet of Regensburg (1630) to thwart the aggression of the emperor, and then advised the intervention of Gustavus Adolphus, reconciling himself to the use of
Protestant
  armies by the theory that one poison would counteract another. Thus the monk became a war minister, and, though maintaining a personal austerity of life, gave himself up to diplomacy and politics. He died in 1638, just as the cardinalate was to be conferred upon him. The story that Richelieu visited him when on his deathbed and roused the dying man by the words, " Courage, Father Joseph, we have won
Breisach
 ," is apocryphal.
See Fagniez, Le Pere Joseph et Richelieu (1894), a
work
  based largely on
original
  and unpublished sources. Father Joseph, according to this biography, would seem not to have lectured Richelieu in the fashion of the legends, whatever his moral influence may have been in strengthening Richelieu's hands.


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