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Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642

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  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
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    Le chemin abregé, or a compendious method for the attaining of sciences in a short time. Together with the statutes of the academy founded by the Cardinall of Richlieu / Englished by R[obert] G[entilis] Gent.

    | Date: 1654
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    La physionomie, ou des indices que la nature à mis au corps humain par où l'on peut descouvrir les moeurs, et les inclinations d'un chacun. Avec un traitté de la divination par les palpitations, et un autre par les marques naturelles / Le tout traduit du grec d'Adamantius & de Melampe par Henry de Boyvin du Vauvroüy, âgé de douze ans.

    Adamantius. | Date: 1635
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