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Dead Cardinal Walking by HistoryLover1984
Fandoms: Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers Series - Alexandre Dumas, The Musketeers (2014)
14 Jul 2021
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Day of the Dupes is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power.T he political relations between the cardinal and Marie de' Medici, reached a crisis. In a stormy scene on 10 November, in the Luxembourg Palace, Marie de' Medici and the cardinal met in the king's presence. The queen mother demanded the cardinal's dismissal, declaring that the king had to choose between him and her.No immediate decision came from Louis, but he retired to his hunting lodge in Versailles. Richelieu seems to have believed that his political career was over,while Medici was already celebrating her defeat over him.Now the story:
A day before Louis makes his decision,the Cardinal who suffers a mental breakdown, gets drunk for the first time in years and sets out to sing a song.If you have heard ,you'll know what to expect.But Treville doesn't .(Neither do the Musketeers)- Language:
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