부산대학교 도서관

French family of patrons. (b Paris, Sept 9, 1585; d Paris, Dec 4, 1642). He was the youngest son of a bankrupt courtier, and was educated in Paris for a military career, but accepted the family bishopric of Luçon in 1606. After consecration in Rome in 1607, he entered the service of Marie de’ Medici. His exile after Concini’s fall in 1617 ended when he negotiated peace between Marie and Louis XIII; his reward was a Cardinalate granted in 1622. Richelieu’s political rise from 1620 (member of the King’s council 1624, Surintendant de Navigation 1628, principal minister 1629), was accompanied by increasing wealth. The exile of Marie in 1631 to Brussels left Richelieu politically secure until his death. His artistic and architectural commissions, which were increasingly ambitious, developed with his political strength and were financed in part from public funds. Richelieu was involved with the decoration of the Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, and was in frequent contact with such connoisseurs as Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Claude Maugis, and with Marie’s artists and architects (many of whom he employed himself). The discontinuation of ...