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| | Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, duke French nobleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | May 17, 1822, Paris), French nobleman, soldier, and statesman who, as premier of France (1815-18 and 1820-21), obtained the withdrawal of the Allied occupation army from France. |
 | | Richelieu returned to France in 1814, but on Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815 he joined the Tsar's forces against Napoleon. |
 | | His friendship with the Tsar helped him to mitigate the demands of the Allies on France, and at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) he obtained the withdrawal of the Allied occupying army and the inclusion of France into the Quadruple Alliance. |
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