Armand-Jean du Plessis duc de Richelieu

Standard Name: Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis,,, duc de

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary Setting Eliza Parsons
Each of the three volumes has a different quotation on its title-page: the last is Shakespeare 's defiant Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, maintaining that harsh weather is mild compared with human injustice.
Parsons, Eliza. An Old Friend with a New Face. T. N. Longman, 1797, 3 vols.
3: title-page
politics Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM involved herself again in politics, intervening with the duc de Richelieu , governor of Languedoc, on behalf of persecuted French Huguenots.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 319, 321-3
Publishing Emma Robinson
About the time she published her first novel, ER also composed a three-act play entitled Richelieu in Love.
The duc de Richelieu , churchman and statesman,Cardinal and French Prime Minister, had had areputation as...
Textual Production Emma Robinson
ER 's play Richelieu in Love; or, The Youth of Charles I was in print, anonymously, for she wrote to J. R. Planché reminding him about it and enclosing (as a pamphlet) a printed copy.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Planché, James Robinson. The Recollections and Reflections of J.R. Planché. Tinsley Brothers, 1872, 2 vols.
2:97-8

Timeline

February 1744: An anonymous fiction purportedly from French,...

Writing climate item

February 1744

An anonymous fiction purportedly from French, The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, related the protagonist's picaresque adventures in men's clothes, with a female companion.
Woodward, Carolyn. “Crossing Borders with Mademoiselle de Richelieu: Fiction, Gender, and the Problem of Authenticity”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
16
, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 573-01.
585, 573, 589, 601

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