Cardinal Armand-Jean de Plessis, Duc de Richelieu Glossary
The château, along with a new model village ( “new town”), was built at the order of Richelieu, who had spent his youth there and bought the village of his ancestors; he had the estate raised to a duché-pairie in August 1631. He engaged the architect Jacques Lemercier, who had designed the Sorbonne and the …
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