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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu has received more than 137,798 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu is the 2,408th most popular politician (up from 2,519th in 2019), the 817th most popular biography from France (up from 841st in 2019) and the 183rd 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

Among politicians, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 2,408 out of 19,576. Before him are Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, Ellac, Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Emperor Xuan of Han, Cleopatra IV of Egypt, and Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester. After him are Pepin I of Aquitaine, Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and Empress Wanrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 6. Before him are John Dalton, Thomas Robert Malthus, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy. After him are Nikolay Karamzin, Johanna Schopenhauer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1822, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 7. Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Herschel, Antonio Canova, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Claude Louis Berthollet. After him are Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, and Valentin Haüy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 817 out of 6,770. Before him are Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jean Froissart (1337), and Robert Guérin (1876). After him are Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Robert of Molesme (1024), Didier Deschamps (1968), Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), and Isabella of Angoulême (1188).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 183. Before him are Émile Loubet (1838), Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704), Jules Grévy (1807), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Léon Bourgeois (1851), and Inessa Armand (1874). After him are Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), Louis the Blind (880), Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166), Magnentius (303), Joscelin I, Count of Edessa (1072), and Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1339).

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