Richelieu, Louis-François-Armand du Plessis, Duke de
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▪ French marshal
born March 13, 1696, Paris, France
died Aug. 8, 1788, Paris
marshal of France, and grand-nephew of Cardinal de Richelieu.
Louis was ambassador to Vienna in 1725 to 1729, and in 1733–34 he served in the Rhine campaign during the War of the Polish Succession. He fought with distinction at Dettingen and Fontenoy; three years afterward he made a brilliant defense of Genoa. In 1756 he expelled the English from Minorca by capturing the San Felipe fortress, and in 1757–58 he closed his military career with the pillaging campaigns in Hanover that procured him the sobriquet of
Petit Père de la Maraude (“Little Father of Marauding”). In his early days he was thrice imprisoned in the Bastille: in 1711 at the instigation of his stepfather,
in 1716 in consequence of a duel, and in 1719 for his share in Alberoni's conspiracy against the regent Orléans.
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