Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman.

Consecrated as a bishop in 1605, he was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. He continued to rise in both the Catholic Church and French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and Chief minister to Louis XIII of France in 1624.

Cardinal Richelieu was a devoted cat-lover. In 1642 he had fourteen felines. They were the only true affection of this pragmatic politician. The most famous was a jet black cat called Lucifer. They are his 14 beloved cats to whom, they say, he even left some of his vast wealth for the continuing care of them.

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