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The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.

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Louis XIII

King of France from 1610 to 1643

Louis XIII was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
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Cardinal Richelieu

French statesman and clergyman (1585–1642)

Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied…
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