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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.
Richelieu’s protégé Mazarin, another cardinal, took over the job of prime minister during the minority of Louis XIV.
The Palais-Royal, across the rue de Rivoli from the Louvre, was built as Cardinal Richelieu’s residence in 1639 (it became “royal” when Anne of Austria moved in with young Louis XIV).
Directing national policy until his death in 1642, Richelieu reasserted the authority of his king against both the conservative Catholics who surrounded the queen mother and the Protestant forces that were fiercely defending the privileges granted them by the Edict of Nantes.
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.