Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anna Barker, with her Yorkie Watson, at the entrance to the La Rochelle Old Port, between the Saint Nicolas Tower and the Chain ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1637: Perhaps weary of watching dinner guests picking their teeth with the points of their daggers, Cardinal Richelieu orders the blades of his dinnerware to be ...

It’s nice to be remembered fondly 375 years after you’ve died. That’s the case for Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, known to history as Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu ...

Attention, Francophiles-and anyone with a more than casual interest in the art, culture and politics of France (or, for that Attention, Francophiles-and anyone with a more than casual interest in the ...

RICHELIEU—Carl J. Burckhardf—Oxford ($3.75). French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the ...

These memoirs confirm the verdict of history that Richelieu, like the great Henri, had only one end in view—the glory of France; but they do not confirm the impression that either the King or the ...

Armand-Jean du Plessis, better known to history as Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), spent most of his career contending for and then exercising control over a deeply divided, indebted, and ...

The first six months of research for Anna’s Thinking Cap inspired visits to Iowa’s Napoleonic history-related towns such as Waterloo, Marengo, and Napoleon (today’s Iowa City). A trip to Bonaparte is ...