Cardinal Richelieu
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Richelieu · the Cardinal
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
French cardinal and statesman who tried to bring Grotius into France's service.
Invited to enter the service of France by Richelieu, Grotius would not accept the conditions which the Cardinal wished to impose,—such at least is the inevitable inference from his letters.
Richelieu, having failed to draw the great jurist into the orbit of his influence as a satellite, resented his appearance in a character so influential and honorable as that of ambassador of Sweden, and Grotius made little progress in his negotiation.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Seventeenth-century French statesman cited by Dicey as an example of a figure Tocqueville's followers regard as advancing democracy in the social-condition sense.
Hence Tocqueville and his followers trace back the progress of democracy to times long anterior to the revolutionary movements which marked the close of the eighteenth century, and see in Richelieu and in Frederick the Great, no less than in Napoleon I.