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The 19 pages that link to Cardinal Richelieu, each with the reason it gives.

• Thirty Years' WarRelated: His strategy brought France into the war despite its Catholic identity.

• Académie françaiseRelated: Richelieu sponsored the society and secured royal backing for its work.

• French monarchyRelated: His policies weakened rival noble and Protestant power centers.

• Louis XIIIRelated: Their partnership directed royal policy and France’s intervention in the Thirty Years’ War.

• Pierre CorneilleRelated: Richelieu’s cultural policies helped foster the institutions and courtly environment of Corneille’s theater.

• Revocation of the Edict of NantesRelated: His policies helped separate Protestant worship from the political privileges later abolished.

• Anne of AustriaRelated: Richelieu’s dominance at court and wartime policies shaped Anne’s life as queen consort.

• French neoclassical theatreRelated: His patronage of literary institutions strengthened centralized cultural authority.

• IntendantsRelated: Richelieu strengthened royal commissioners as instruments of centralized government.

• Marie de' MediciRelated: Marie helped bring him into royal service, before their political alliance collapsed.

• French Classical LiteratureRelated: His support for the French Academy connected literary standards with state-sponsored institutions.

• Alfred de VignyRelated: Richelieu is the political power against which the conspirators in Cinq-Mars rebel.

• Battle of RocroiRelated: His policy had brought France into open war with Spain in 1635.

• Cardinal MazarinRelated: Mazarin followed Richelieu as chief minister and continued his centralizing policies.

• Table knifeRelated: A well-known account links Richelieu with promoting rounded knife tips at table.

• War of the Mantuan SuccessionRelated: He made the Mantuan dispute part of France’s effort to contain Habsburg power.

• France in the early modern periodRelated: His policies targeted rival power centers at home while expanding French influence abroad.