Excerpt from Richelieu or the Conspiracy; A Play, in Five Acts
The administration of Cardinal Richelieu, whom (despite all his darker qualities) Voltaire and History justly consider the true architect of the French monarchy, and the great parent of French civilization, is characterised by features alike tragic and comic. A weak king - an ambitious favourite; a despicable conspiracy against the minister, nearly always associated with a dangerous treason against the State - These, with little variety of names and dates, constitute the eventful cycle through which, with a dazzling ease, and an arrogant confidence, the great luminary fulfilled its destinies. Blent together, in startling contrast, we see the grandest achievements and the pettiest agents; - the spy - the mistress - the capuchin; - the destruction of feudalism; - the humiliation of Austria; - the dismemberment of Spain.
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