Word: richelieu
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...policy, it should only be followed when there is a sufficiently worth-while play to make use of. This is clearly not true of "Serenade," which is a sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting was as uninspired as the play, with the exception of Mrs. Neill Phillips, who in the part of Diane de Pierreneuve, spoke with a perfect accent and acted rather well. The reviewer recommends that Le Cercle be chary of its new policy in the future...
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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...