During his time as a minister he was able, to great extent, to fulfill his clear-cut plan to create astrong state and an absolute monarchy. Richelieu achieved this goal through several courses of action. One such implementation was that he established a church utterly loyal to the monarchy. In fact, the French state had far more extensive control over the revenue of the church than in any other Catholic country. Richelieu had achieved this goal …showed first 75 words of 892 total…

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