How To Use Richelieu In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The tradition of Richelieu has today been inherited by a republican canaille that is wholly lacking the finesse of the ancien régime.
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There is a flourishing and very pretty town situated at the junction of the Richelieu river with the St. Laurence, formerly called Sorel, now called Fort William Henry.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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The Richelieu is a better fish pond, and these forests are
The Refugees
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Richelieu, who held for a time the office of provisor and who, in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Richelieu also features numerous ledges, crevices and small caverns, providing shelter for squirrelfish, soldierfish, copper sweepers, and over twelve species of moray eels, including the rare golden moray.
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The industrialists are dressed as bewigged aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France, with Hearst as Cardinal Richelieu.
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Turning south-eastward, we dived at High Rock the following day before crossing back into Thai waters and retracing our route to Phuket via Richelieu Rock and the Similan Islands.
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His Hamlet is perhaps his most finished part, as his Richelieu is the most popular with the masses.
Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
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Louis XIthat in defatigable workman, who commenced on so large a scale the demolition of the feudal edifice, continued by Richelieu and Louis XIV to the advantage of royalty, and completed by Mirabeau to the advantage of the peopleLouis XI had done his utmost to break up this network of seigneuries which covered Paris, by casting violently athwart it two or three ordinances of general police.
IV. An Awkward Friend. Book X
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At that time his well-known establishment consisted of two dining-halls, at right angles to each other; long, narrow, low-ceiled rooms, looking respectively on the Rue Neuve-deRichelieu and the Place de la Sorbonne.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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The main enemy was the evil Cardinal Richelieu who was plotting against the easily led King and secretly working for the Spanish.
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Although it had enjoyed a brief flourishing under Cardinal Richelieu in the 1630s, Mazarin had allowed the navy to sink into decay.
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Standing by the tomb of Richelieu, which is one of the finest pieces of sculpture in Europe, he exclaimed,
The Empire of Russia
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BAIRD'S works on _Huguenots_; Perkins, _France under Richelieu and Mazarin_ (2 vols.); Hanotaux, _Richelieu_ (2 vols.).
Outline of Universal History
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The Richelieu Steamboat Company was {149} formed in 1845, and took its other title thirty years later, when it made its first great 'merger.'
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Richelieu also worked off of the logic that a major European power needed a navy to survive and to protect any expanding merchant fleet.
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Both Richelieu and Mazarin were convinced that he was a man of some considerable talent.
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The mouth of the Richelieu was the usual place of meeting.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
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Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin almost had to unfrock themselves in order to become statesmen.
Charred Wood
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Cardinal Richelieu, Prime Minister of France, drank chocolate to treat his spleen, and women drank it to regain their strength during particularly exhausting days.
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Then, the court heard that lawyer Alberton Richelieu had applied for a fiat to prosecute the matter.
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Vedrine makes clear he is a subtle practitioner of realpolitik in the tradition of Richelieu, Talleyrand, and de Gaulle.
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Part of the pathos of Durcan's Richelieu lies in his obsessive awareness that if he ‘drops’ the talismanic biretta / crown, the game will be up and the show will be over.
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Mr. Morellet's redesign of seven antique bay windows and oculi around the Lefuel staircase in the Museé du Louvre's Richelieu wing, in particular, made subtle use of his geometrical skills to create a destabilizing elegance.
Morellet Occupies a New Space
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This shows the aged and ailing Richelieu slumped against cushions in his barge, towing the boat in which the young and healthy conspirators are being taken to their place of execution.
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Several Québécois communities claim to be the birthplace of poutine, including Drummondville (by Jean-Paul Roy in 1964), [7] Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and Victoriaville. [citation needed] One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented in 1957, [8] when a customer ordered fries while waiting for his cheese curds from the Kingsey cheese factory in Kingsey Falls (now in Warwick and owned by Saputo Incorporated).
Poutine | My[confined]Space
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Founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, its purpose was to produce a dictionary that would define all significant words of the French language.
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In a moment all was destroyed; past prosperity, hopes of the future; it needed a whole century, a minister called Richelieu and a king called Louis the Fourteenth, to cicatrize the wound made in France by Ravaillac's knife.
Une fille du régent. English
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By the time she married Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889, she was a wealthy woman in her own right who carried an important French title as the dowager duchess of Richelieu.
