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Cardinal Richelieu (the powerful 17th-century French statesman) for one dreamed of conquest in the New World.
Richelieu’s major achievement was the greater centralization of royal power, laying the foundations of the strong sense of national identity that has characterized France ever since.
But nothing came of that, nor of a rival French move in 1633 when Cardinal Richelieu, the 17th-century French statesman, tried claiming the islands for France.
The country floundered in uncertainty under the regency of Marie de Médicis, mother of the young Louis XIII, until Cardinal Richelieu took charge as prime minister in 1624.
The centralization dear to Richelieu and Louis XIV was becoming a reality.