Armand Jean Duplessis, Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642) French prelate and statesman: Cardinal 1624: Minister of state to Louis XIII and de facto ruler of France from 1629. Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle 1628. Stronghold of Huguenots, La Rochelle was

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