Testament politique kardynała Richelieu

Abstract

This article aims to summarize and present the most important and original theses contained
in the Political Testament (Testament politique) of Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu.
Although the first minister of King Louis XIII is associated primarily with his practical
political activity, he wrote numerous discourses, letters, theological and theoretical works,
including the Political Testament. In this work published after his death, were apart practical,
sometimes too vague advice for the king, but there were also fragments strictly describing
the monarchical idea.