Richelieu

How To Use Richelieu In A Sentence

• His foreign policy was, as Richelieu's had often been, indifferent to the interests of Catholicism: the Peace of Westphalia gave its solemn sanction to the legal existence of Calvinism in Germany, and, while the nuncio vainly protested, Protestant princes were rewarded with secularized bishoprics and abbacies for their political opposition to The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• Taxes were low from 1600 to 1630, when the French peasant economy prospered, and then increased threefold in real terms under Richelieu and Mazarin from 1630 to 1660, when northern France was gripped by agrarian crises.
• Marie-Antoinette was a Habsburg, and thus from the moment of her arrival in France in 1770 the bugbear of the Richelieu-d'Aiguillon faction, which hated the Austrian alliance.
• A small shoal of barracuda patrol a saddle in the ridge, but there are not the enormous shoals of barracuda or trevally to be found at Richelieu Rock.
• It was short portage railway around a cataract in the St. Lawrence River, running only 14 miles between Lapraire on the St.Lawrence River and St.John's on the Richelieu River.
• Dinner was that promiscous and experimental to-day, along o 'Richelieu's nat'ral foolin', that I think I could git outside of a little suthin 'now, if only to prop up a kind of innard sinkin' that takes me. A Phyllis of the Sierras
• Of course, these countless gallantries in the most licentious persons of the day, such as Richelieu or Saxe, were neither more nor less than an outbreak of sheer dissoluteness, such as took place among English people of quality in the time of the Voltaire
• One of the carriages held up at the bridge that day contained the bishop of Lucon, Armand-Jean du Plessis—the title "de Richelieu" was not yet his—who was a minister in the regency and a subordinate of Concini's. For King And Country
• Of course, these countless gallantries in the most licentious persons of the day, such as Richelieu or Saxe, were neither more nor less than an outbreak of sheer dissoluteness, such as took place among English people of quality in the time of the Voltaire
• MONTREAL - A 12-year-old boy was killed Monday afternoon after he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que, southeast of Montreal. Toronto Sun