Je m'assure : I am sure

11* — 8. besogner, travailler.

PORTRAIT DE RICHELIEU

14. Richelieu. Armand Jean du Plessis (1585-1642), Cardinal de Richelieu and minister of Louis XIII. , one of the greatest of French statesmen. His policy attained a triple object : the min of the Protestants as a political party, the abasement of the great feudal families and of the House of Austria. He estabiished absolute monarchy in France. He was a patron of arts and letters, and founded the French Academy in 1685. .26. Cordon de l'ordre, l'ordre du Saint Esprit, order of knight-

8â KOTBS

hood, created bj Henry III in 1578. Tba refwe&ce is to the décoration of tliis order.

LUXE DE RIGHELIEU.