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...Founded in 1838 on rue de Richelieu by Joseph-Christophe Charvet, son to Napoleon Bonaparte’s wardrobe curator and nephew to his linen keeper, Charvet moved to 25 Place Vendôme in 1877....
...Conrad Black and his wife turned up to a party as Cardinal Richelieu and Marie Antoinette. Not long after, he was in jail....
...This version for the renovated Salle Richelieu is an uneasy compromise between old and new, and a late change of director can’t have helped....
...Nick Butler, special adviser to Gordon Brown when Heywood was his permanent secretary, describes him as “a Richelieu, a Coville” – a man gripped by the possibilities of power but with no wish to exercise...
...The writer is the author of Passionate Minds, a biography of Emilie du Châtelet (Little, Brown, UK; Crown, US)...
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