Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

(1766-1822)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duc de, 1766-1822 LBT ID: DuRiche5 VIAF ID: 56652282 LOC ID: n91047221	B/BAP: 1766-09-25 DIED: 1822-05-17
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French nobleman who during the Napoleonic Wars served as a general in the Russian Imperial Army; after the Bourbon Restoration he succeeded Talleyrand as the Prime Minister of France.
REFERENCES TO Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 16 November 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleugh, 15 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1819 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 61 ¶ 73 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 79 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XII: 1817-18 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter IV: 1816