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Richelieu and Olivares: The Quest for European Domination
Richelieu and Olivares was written as an account of the lives of
the two great rulers of rivaling nations which struggled for the domination
of Europe and the idea of a Universal monarchy in the early seventeenth
century. The beginning of ....
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of the same problems; they came up with many of the same answers; and in
the end they reached the conclusion that the world was too small to contain
them both.” (6).
The first time that the book notes an unfriendly atmosphere between
Richelieu and Olivares came after the War of Mantuan Succession. The two
men blamed each other for the problems incurred as a result of the conflict.
“Richelieu's journal for the early months of 1631 shows him receiving
reports to the effect that Olivares held him responsible for all Spain's
misfortunes and would shrink f ....
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