Excerpt from Le Cardinal de Richelieu: 1623-1642Avant de nous engager dans ce XVII° 51ecle, le plus mémorable de notre histoire, et d'y rencontrer tout d'abord la grande figure du cardinal de Richelieu jetons un rapide coup d'oeil sur l'état politique et social de la France, alors que cette glorieuse époque commença.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.