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Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Testament politique


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    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642.
    • Testament politique

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    • 1688

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    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Maximes d'Etat et fragments politiques du cardinal de Richelieu
    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Maximes d'Etat, ou, Testament politque d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu
    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Recueil des testamens politiques
    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu
    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. Testament politique du cardinal de Richelieu
    • Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642. The political testament of Cardinal Richelieu,

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  • Sources

    • found: Andreev, A. R. Geniĭ Frant︠s︡ii, ili, Zhiznʹ kardinala Rishelʹe, 1999.
    • found: Bib. nat.(Testament politique; Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu; Testament politique du cardinal de Richelieu; Recueil des testamens politiques; Maximes d'Etat, ou, Testament politque d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu; Maximes d'Etat et fragments politiques du cardinal de Richelieu)
    • found: Voltaire. Des mensonges imprimés, chapitre II-III (in: Voltaire. Oreste, 1750, pages 157-204):page 170 (caption: "Raisons de croire que le livre intitulé: Testament politique du cardinal de Richelieu, est un ouvrage supposé")
    • found: Voltaire. 1749 (II) (Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 31B), 1994: page 317 (introduction by Mark Waddicor: "[Voltaire's] Des mensonges imprimés is a violent but amusing attack on ... the dishonesty of journalists, novelists, historians and publishers"; among the works whose authenticity Voltaire sought to discredit is "The Testament politique, attributed by its publisher and by several eminent men to ... the cardinal de Richelieu") pages 318-319 ("The Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu first appeared in 1688") page 330 ("Since the publication in 1880 of a collection of Richelieu's Maximes d'état, which in André's words constitute 'un canevas, un premier jet' of the Testament ... , it has become impossible to deny that the cardinal was responsible for a large part of it. This is not to say that he wrote every line ... some sections ... were entrusted to, or based on the work of, others ... On the other hand, the spirit of the work, its emphasis on the importance of ecclesiastical affairs, its concern with limiting the power of the parlements and of the nobility, its generally harsh tone, are all characteristic of Richelieu. It is therefore possible to call him the 'author' of the Testament politique in the sense that he wrote some of it, and that it presents his views, but he is not its author in the sense that, say, Voltaire is the author of the Histoire de Charles XII ... It is impossible to agree with Voltaire that the work is a forgery")

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    • [According to Bib. nat. (vol. 151) the Testament politique is not the same as Ordonnance de dernière volonté de M. le Cardinal duc de Richelieu, or works entitled simply "Testament"]

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    • 2001-01-11: new
    • 2020-02-02: revised

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