THE OFFICIAL CARDINAL RICHELIEU DOC

Cardinal Richelieu By Azraelyc Note: This document draws from multiple sources, but it should not be treated as a fully verified historical source. It is intended more as an analysis. Also, please avoid using this document to compare historical figures with fictional ones; I would prefer it to remain within History SCD. If you have any questions, my Discord is: azraelyc, thanks for reading (: EARLY LIFE: Richelieu's life was difficult from the start. His birth was a struggle that nearly cost his mother her life (some even speculate that she may have been traveling while pregnant). From birth, it seemed fate had given him a fragile body, which was sensitive, frail, sickly, thin and weak, prone to fevers and prone to headaches. At the same time, he grew up during the French Wars of Religion, when disease, plague, and violence were simply the norm. The situation worsened further after his father's death, which left the family in financial instability, and the family lived with the pressure to restore their status. Yet Richelieu pushed through, as even though he was deeply emotional, he trained himself to cover it with discipline and reason. Françoise Hildesheimer, Richelieu (Paris: Flammarion, 2021), pp. 23-26. (Adversity Capacity) Richelieu's education began under a man named Hardy Guillot, who taught him Latin. He then studied at the Collège de Navarre, where he delved deeply into religion, grammar, the humanities, rhetoric, mathematics, philosophy, and natural science. …