Ls. Fs. Ad. Duplessis duc de Richelieu [engraving]
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
Ls. Fs. Ad. Duplessis duc de Richelieu [engraving]
Variant Title
Louis François Armand Duplessis, duc de Richelieu [engraving]
Published
Imp. lith. de Delpech [19th century]
Description
1lithograph : port. ; 47 x 30 cm.
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
Bust turned to his right, head facing center.
At the time of the attack on Minorca, Richelieu was in command of the French Mediterranean coast from Port Vendes to Antibes. Despite the resolutions of his council of war, Blakeney, in command of the Island, had done little to prepare the garrison for the long-anticipated invasion. (D. Pope. At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, p. 95) Richelieu, as a result, met with little or no resistance to his invasion of Minorca.
At the time of Byng's trial, Richelieu sent a Dec. 25 letter to Voltaire, a vocal proponant of Byng's innocence. In it Richelieu wrote sympathetically of Byng's dilemma: "When two men of merit contend, one of them must have the disadvantage, without necessarily implying dishonour to the other... It appears to me generally acknowledged that if the English had obstinately persisted, their Fleet must have been destroyed, so that there never was a more flagrant injustice than what is attempted against Byng...." Voltaire received it on 1 January 1757, but by the time the letter arrived in Portsmouth on 23 January, the court martial had finished hearing evidence. (D. Pope, pp. 277-279)
Leaf 163 in The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
At the time of the attack on Minorca, Richelieu was in command of the French Mediterranean coast from Port Vendes to Antibes. Despite the resolutions of his council of war, Blakeney, in command of the Island, had done little to prepare the garrison for the long-anticipated invasion. (D. Pope. At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, p. 95) Richelieu, as a result, met with little or no resistance to his invasion of Minorca.
At the time of Byng's trial, Richelieu sent a Dec. 25 letter to Voltaire, a vocal proponant of Byng's innocence. In it Richelieu wrote sympathetically of Byng's dilemma: "When two men of merit contend, one of them must have the disadvantage, without necessarily implying dishonour to the other... It appears to me generally acknowledged that if the English had obstinately persisted, their Fleet must have been destroyed, so that there never was a more flagrant injustice than what is attempted against Byng...." Voltaire received it on 1 January 1757, but by the time the letter arrived in Portsmouth on 23 January, the court martial had finished hearing evidence. (D. Pope, pp. 277-279)
Leaf 163 in The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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