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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 132,924 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu is the 2,527th most popular politician (up from 2,674th in 2019), the 843rd most popular biography from France (up from 911th in 2019) and the 195th 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 2,527 out of 15,577. Before him are Sogdianus of Persia, Karl Carstens, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Sanakht, Louis the Younger, and Constantine Laskaris. After him are Yevgeny Primakov, Archidamus II, Theodahad, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia, Ptolemy Philadelphus, and Guillaume de Nogaret.

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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 Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Nikolay Karamzin, Maine de Biran, Dominique Jean Larrey, Rodolphe Kreutzer, and Charlotte, Princess Royal. Among people deceased in 1822, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 8. Before him are William Herschel, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Antonio Canova, Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Valentin Haüy, Paolo Ruffini, René Just Haüy, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 843 out of 6,011. Before him are Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), Robert Nivelle (1856), Georges Dumézil (1898), Guntram (532), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), and Jean Todt (1946). After him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Marcel Carné (1906), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Christina of Lorraine (1565), and Jules Ferry (1832).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu ranks 195. Before him are Paul Reynaud (1878), Renée of France (1510), Louis Barthou (1862), Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627), Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), and Guntram (532). After him are Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Christina of Lorraine (1565), Jules Ferry (1832), Charles III of Navarre (1361), Gaston Doumergue (1863), and Magnentius (303).

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