When Richelieu died in 1642, he was interred in a tomb in this chapel.

Marie subsequently travelled to Cologne, where she died in 1642, scheming against Richelieu to the end.

His patron having died, Richelieu also lost power ; he was dismissed as Secretary of State, and was removed from the court.

Richelieu died on 4 December 1642, aged 57.

He died two years later at the age of eighty-two, and in 1642 the queen summoned Mme de Motteville to court, being now her own mistress by the death of Richelieu and Louis XIII.

General Thomas died of smallpox on June 2, 1776 during the retreat up the Richelieu River near Chambly.

When his grandfather died and his father succeeded to the Richelieu dukedom in 1788, Chinon became the Duke of Fronsac ( duc de Fronsac ).

Starting in 1633, he organized weekly public conferences on subjects of interest and published the proceedings ; the conferences were discontinued in 1642, when Richelieu died.

Despite the fact that Richelieu died while the two were en route to Paris, de Breche convinced Pallavicino to continue the journey, and as they were crossing one of the bridges at Orange in the neighborhood of Avignon, a papal enclave within France, there de Breche betrayed him to the local papal authorities.

His grandson, Jacques de Castelnau ( 1620 – 1658 ), distinguished himself in the war against Austria and Spain during the ministries of Richelieu and Mazarin, and died a Marshal of France.

The connection of his father, Denis Bouthillier ( died 1622 ), with Cardinal Richelieu secured for him the title of secretary of state in 1628, and he was able to remain on good terms with both Marie de Medici and Richelieu, in spite of their rivalry.

* 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( b. 1585 )

Over time it became clear these privileges would be open to abuse and when in 1620 the Huguenots proclaimed a constitution for the ' Republic of the Reformed Churches of France ', the Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ) invoked the entire powers of the state.

* September 9 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( d. 1642 )

Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642 ) was a French clergyman, noble and statesman.

Cardinal Richelieu originally fulfilled this role ; upon his death in 1642, Pierre Séguier, the Chancellor of France, succeeded him.

He was the submissive tool of Richelieu in the prosecutions of Cinq-Mars and François Auguste de Thou in 1642.

In December 1642 he succeeded Richelieu as official " protector " of the Académie française, which from that time until his death held its sessions in his house.

At fifteen he received commissions from Cardinal Richelieu, in the execution of which he displayed an ability which obtained the generous commendations of Nicolas Poussin, in whose company Le Brun started for Rome in 1642.

Formerly also called Iroquois River, its French name comes from Fort Richelieu, which in turn was named in memory of Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ).

## Richelieu: 1585 – 1642

In 1638, Richelieu had him to be imprisoned at Vincennes, where he remained until after the Cardinal's death in 1642.

Its formation began in 1642 when Charles Huault de Montmagny, first Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of New France, built Fort Richelieu here as a defense for settlers and river travellers against the Iroquois.

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis de Cinq-Mars ( 1620 – September 12, 1642 ) was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France who led the last and most nearly successful of the many conspiracies against the king's powerful first minister, the Cardinal Richelieu.

La Compagnie française des Indes orientales ( French East India Company ) was formed under the auspices of Cardinal Richelieu ( 1642 ) and reconstructed under Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1664 ), sending an expedition to Madagascar.

In the church Richelieu was interred in 1642.

In 1641 he resigned his official dignity, and in 1642 was appointed by Richelieu to the charge of the royal library.

* Parrott, David A. Richelieu ’ s Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624 – 1642 ( Cambridge 2001 ) ISBN 0-521-79209-6

Henry IV's son Louis XIII and his minister ( 1624 – 1642 ) Cardinal Richelieu, elaborated a policy against Spain and the German emperor during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) which had broken out among the lands of Germany's Holy Roman Empire.

Early trained for diplomacy, he fell into disgrace under Cardinal Richelieu, but his remarkable abilities attracted the notice of Cardinal Mazarin, who sent him as secretary of the French embassy to the congress of Munster, and, in 1642, on a mission to the pope.

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

It was only when Jacqueline performed well in a children's play with Richelieu in attendance that Étienne was pardoned.

An even more prominent example is that of Cardinal Richelieu, whose power was so great that he was for many years the real ruler of France.

Richelieu was so successful that his successor, Jules Mazarin, was also a cardinal.

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

He was sent on special embassies to Venice, Germany and England, and displayed so much diplomatic skill and finesse that Cardinal Richelieu ranked him among the three greatest politicians of his time.

The immediate occasion for the war was the uprising of the Protestant nobility of Bohemia against the emperor, but the conflict was widened into a European War by the intervention of King Christian IV of Denmark ( 1625 – 29 ), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( 1630 – 48 ) and France under Cardinal Richelieu.

Although Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful chief minister of France, had previously mauled the Protestants, he joined this war on their side in 1636 because it was in the raison d ' état ( national interest ).

The works are displayed on the Richelieu Wing's first floor and in the Apollo Gallery, named by the painter Charles Le Brun, who was commissioned by Louis XIV ( the Sun King ) to decorate the space in a solar theme.

This was done with the intervention of Richelieu.

The first actual usage of the term prime minister or Premier Ministre was used by Cardinal Richelieu when in 1625 he was named to head the royal council as prime minister of France.

Descartes was present at the siege of La Rochelle by Cardinal Richelieu in 1627.

This small château was the site of one of the historical events that took place during the reign of Louis XIII, on 10 November 1630, when, on the Day of the Dupes, the party of the queen mother was defeated and Richelieu was confirmed as prime minister.

From the point of view of purely judicial administration, Anjou was subject to the parlement of Paris ; Angers was the seat of a presidial court, of which the jurisdiction comprised the sénéchaussées of Angers, Saumur, Beaugé, Beaufort and the duchy of Richelieu ; there were besides presidial courts at Château-Gontier and La Flèche.