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Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

1766 - 1822

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Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (25 September 1766 – 17 May 1822), was a French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration. He was known by the courtesy title of Count of Chinon until 1788, then Duke of Fronsac until 1791, when he succeeded his father as Duke of Richelieu. As a royalist, during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he served as a senior officer in the Imperial Russian Army, achieving the grade of major general. Following the Bourbon Restoration, he returned to his homeland and was twice Prime Minister of France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu is the 3,203rd most popular politician (down from 2,407th in 2019), the 984th most popular biography from France (down from 817th in 2019) and the 230th most popular French Politician.

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu was a French aristocrat, soldier, diplomat, and statesman. Richelieu is most famous for his role in the French Wars of Religion, in which he served as a military commander and as the chief minister of King Louis XIII.

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Among politicians, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 3,203 out of 19,576. Before him are Richard Walther Darré, Mircea II of Wallachia, Wolfgang Schäuble, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, João Goulart, and Iziaslav I of Kiev. After him are Henry Morgenthau Jr., Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Francisco de Almeida, Ghiyas ud din Balban, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, and James II of Scotland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 8. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, and Nikolay Karamzin. After him are Franz Xaver Süssmayr, William Hyde Wollaston, Johanna Schopenhauer, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Maine de Biran, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1822, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 8. Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Antonio Canova, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. After him are René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Paolo Ruffini, and Jean-Robert Argand.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 984 out of 6,770. Before him are Geneviève Page (1927), Philipp Spener (1635), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Theodore Beza (1519), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), and René Girard (1923). After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772), Alain-René Lesage (1668), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), René Lalique (1860), Carole Bouquet (1957), and Manu Chao (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 230. Before him are Agnes of Poitou (1025), John, Duke of Berry (1340), Louis Barthou (1862), Childebert III (678), Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653), and Joseph Babinski (1857). After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772), Joan II of Navarre (1311), Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), and Chilperic I (539).

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