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RICHELIEU, LOUIS FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS , Duc DE (1696-1788), marshal of France, was a grandnephew of Cardinal Richelieu, and was born in Paris on the 13th of March
ambassador to Vienna (1725-29) he settled in 1727 the preliminaries of peace; in 1733-34 he served in . the Rhine campaign. His real public career began ten years later. He fought with distinction at Dettingen and Fontenoy, where he directed the grapeshot upon the English
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Bastille : in 1711 at the instance of his stepfather, in 1716 in consequence of a duel, and in 1719 for his share in Alberoni's conspiracy against the regent Orleans. He was thrice married: first, against his will, at the age of fourteen to Anne Catherine de Noailles; secondly, in 1734, by the intrigues (according to the witty Frenchman's own account) of Voltaire, to Marie Elisabeth Sophie, Mademoiselle de Guise; and thirdly, when he was eighty-four years old, to an Irish lady. He died in Paris on the 8th of August 1788. Marshal Richelieu's Memoires, published by J. L. Soulavie in nine volumes (1790), are partially spurious.See H. Noel Williams, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu (1910). End of Article: RICHELIEU, LOUIS FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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