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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.
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.
Stop at the grand old Manoir Richelieu hotel at least for tea on the superbly manicured lawns overlooking the river.
Each of the three main wings is named after one of France’s great figures: the Richelieu wing, the Sully wing in the east, and the Denon wing beside the Seine.
Then in 1805 the building was turned over to the Institut, which comprises the Académie Française, supreme arbiter of the French language founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, and the Académies des Belles-Lettres, Sciences, Beaux-Arts, and Sciences Morales et Politiques.