Cardinal Richelieu ordered the destruction of the castle in 1633.
French politics evolved otherwise however as Cardinal Richelieu came to power in 1624.
Suspicious people suggested that Cardinal Richelieu was the child's parent.
The latter theatre had originally been built by Cardinal Richelieu in 1641.
The palace was built in the 1630's for Cardinal Richelieu.
"Cardinal Richelieu revisited - the good and evil priest in literature"
Cardinal Richelieu claimed that he could find something to hang the most honest man in six lines written by him.
Cardinal Richelieu at once made him colonel of an infantry regiment.
The famous Cardinal Richelieu can be counted among their number.
But by 1623, when Cardinal Richelieu was named abbot, things were in a bad way.