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RICHELIEU, LOUIS FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 305 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
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
  1696. Apart from his reputation as a man of exceptionally loose morals, he attained, in spite of a deplorably defective education, distinction as a diplomatist and general. As
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
  columns, and three years afterwards he made a brilliant defence of Genoa; in 1756 he expelled the
English
  from
Minorca
  by the capture of the San Felipe fortress; and in 1757-58 he closed his military career by those pillaging campaigns in Hanover which procured him the sobriquet of Petit Pere de la Maraude. After the wars he plunged again into
court
  intrigue, favouredthe comtesse du Barry and supported his nephew the duc d'Aiguillon. Louis XVI., however, was not favourably inclined to hiln. In his early-days he was thrice imprisoned in the
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).


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