Richelieu had achieved this goal in part by neutralizing the Huguenots by taking away their places of safty including their strongest place La Rochelle. He claimed the Huguenots had to be been ruined but this was not so in the direct sense of the word. He did so by tolerating religious differences in order to preserve national unity. Although the Premier Minister considered the noblesse as a vital factor in the state machine, he foresaw the danger of those nobles that were considering themselves excluded from a share of central power and thus could revert to territorial independence. Contrary to the intention of Richelieu to consolidate sovereignty, their whole life was a defiance of sovereign law.

In his attempt to impose an absolute monarchy ,the divine right of kings, in France, Cardinal Richelieu decided to d

2. Parker, David, La Rochelle and the French Monarchy, London Royal Historical Society 1980

ter the other after they were conquered by the forces of Cardinal Richelieu, and the last and most important stronghold, La Rochelle, was next.

3. Burckhardt, Carl J., Richelieu His Rise To Power,Oxford Univeristy Press 1940

Miserably disappointed as they were at the failure of the looked-for assistance from England, the mayor of the town, Guiton, rejected the conditions of peace which Cardinal Richelieu offered: namely, that they would raze their fortifications to the ground, and keep the Catholics from entery. But there was a traitorous faction in the town; and, on Guiton's rejection of the terms, this faction collected in one night a crowd of women, and children, and aged persons, and drove them beyond the lines; they were useless.

"Driven out from the beloved city, tottering, faint, and weary, they were fired at by the enemy; and the survivors came pleading back to the walls of Rochelle, pleading for a quiet shelter to die in, even if their death were caused by hunger. When two-thirds of the inhabitants had perished; when the survivors were insufficient to bury their dead; when ghastly corpses out numbered the living - miserable, glorious Rochelle, stronghold of the Huguenots, opened its gates to rec

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