Word: richelieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well known writer of history once said that no one could properly appreciate the genius of Richelieu unless he had stared long at the portrait of the Cardinal that hangs on the sepurchral walls of the Louvre. This is probably one of the truest of his statements. Philip de Chamaigne has clothed the greatest diplomat and statesman of the seventeenth century in an undying personality. The great Duke stands there, hand outstretched with its tendril fingers searching the air. There is the thin Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious...
Long before Richelieu wound his armies through the Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson...
...chief concern of the play is the liaison between Elizabeth and her ubiquitous lover, Lord Essex, and its disruption, the result of treason on the part of that famous noble. Like all historical plays interest is created by court intrigue and diplomacy. "Richelieu" and "Disraeli," of the same nature enjoyed, and still enjoy a certain popularity. But these two were written by men who knew both history and the stage. Dramatic effects were deftly and delicately manipulated in order to lend strength and verisimilitude to what were otherwise essentially elementary plots. Maxwell Anderson, on the other hand, possesses a wavering...
...terms of gift the chateau and its 1,000 acres are created a "perpetual retreat" at the disposal of professors of the Sorbonne. At scholarly ease in the magnificent palace, the professors will enjoy among other things the chief product ot the village of Richelieu, "diamonds of the soil," truffles...
Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, Due de Richelieu, and his U S duchess usually reside at another country place. Chateau du Haut-Buisson. nearer Paris. His Eminence the Cardinal Richelieu lies buried in the Chapel of the Sorbonne which he built and in which members of the House of Richelieu have the right to be married and buried...