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Richelieu

Name: Richelieu
Genre: War & Politics, Family
Released: 1977-10-13
Rating: 9.5
Cast: Marco Perrin, Maria Wimmer, Maryvonne Schiltz, Mireille Audibert, Georges Descrières

“Richelieu: behind the purple, lies secrecy and strategy.”

War & Politics Family

★ 9.5/10 TMDB Premiered 1977-10-13 1 season 6 eps

In a France fractured by court rivalries and personal ambitions, Richelieu moves without ornament. No flourish, no glory — only the cold machinery of power. Caught between a hesitant king, a nobility dreaming of defiance, and enemies multiplying on every front, the cardinal enforces his line: centralize, control, crush resistance. The series follows a strategist who doesn’t hide behind morality. He acts to keep the State standing, even if it means breaking those who stand in his way. Espionage, secret negotiations, decisive strikes… Richelieu plays a game where mistakes are fatal, and the survival of the kingdom rests on one man willing to go further than all the others

Last Episode Aired 1977-11-17

S1E6 — Episode 6

The Thirty Years’ War brought France significant territorial gains, but within the country the tax burden increased, deepening poverty and popular discontent. Richelieu also provoked strong opposition among the nobility, whose privileges he greatly reduced by strengthening the king’s absolute authority. Several plots were directed against him. The Cinq-Mars conspiracy, led by a royal favourite who had in fact been promoted by Richelieu himself, was the final attempt to overthrow him, but it failed. Richelieu died at the height of his power on December 4, 1642, of natural causes. Mazarin, also a cardinal, succeeded him.

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