Richelieu

Timeline

1. 1631–1640Paris · Île-de-FranceAfter the Day of the Dupes he consolidated control over the king and government, established the intendant system to strengthen local administration, further weakened the Huguenots after the Siege of La Rochelle (1628), and fully intervened in the Thirty Years' War against the Habsburgs.
2. 1641–1642Paris · Île-de-FranceDespite illness in his later years he still directed diplomatic and military decisions and founded institutions such as the Académie française. He died on 4 December 1642; Louis XIII also died a few months later, and French politics entered a regency under the queen mother.