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LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES: D’Artagnan (2023), directed by Martin Bourboulon 𝒑𝒔𝒅 𝒃𝒚 © issaspace && whogis

#the three musketeers #les trois mousquetaires #cardinal richelieu #captain treville #trevilieu #anne d'autriche #i have no expectations #it would be nice to appreciate the setting #if only it wasn't SO DARK

Les Charlots en folie: À nous quatre, Cardinal! (1974), directed by André Hunebelle

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Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino + his cats

#jules mazarin #les trois mousquetaires #the three musketeers #vingt ans après #la reine et le cardinal #giulio mazzarino #cardinal richelieu #cats #anne d'autriche #richelieu would have been proud #anne of austria

“Bübül, does the Sultana know me from somewhere? How does she know my name?” “Do not. She’s Hümaşah Sultan, the birds send her news even from the Suleyman mosque.”

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Armand, Cardinal de Richelieu + his favourite cat

#the three musketeers #armand jean du plessis #the four charlots musketeers #richelieu #cardinal richelieu #Cardinal de Richelieu

On the morning of January 30, 1631, as Richelieu was tending to his ordinary business at the Palais-Cardinal, the prince stormed in with his gang of hotheaded young courtiers and stunned him with an open declaration of war. “I am here for a strange reason” were Gaston’s first words, as reported by Antoine Aubery, the cardinal’s first biographer. “As long as I thought you could serve me well I was content with loving you. Now that you are reneging on everything you promised, I’ve come to tell you that I am taking back my word that I would care for you.” With the cardinal’s guards out of the room due to protocol, Gaston’s men looked ready to pounce. But after a few tense moments, Gaston cursed, turned around, and walked back to his carriage, uttering more threats on the way. Richelieu followed on his steps, speechless. Louis was hunting that day. As he heard of his brother’s tantrum, he rushed to the cardinal’s house and tried to reassure the minister as best as he could. Richelieu once again offered to resign. Gaston, after his outburst, had secured the precious stones he had inherited from his late wife and left for his fiefdom in the Loire Valley.

— Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France, Jean-Vincent Blanchard

#cardinal richelieu #bbc musketeers #bbc the musketeers #richelieu #Cardinal de Richelieu #it's hard to be a king when your mommy and bro have fun bullying your first minister #I don't even ship them #but this movie was quite obvious

‘ Ibrahim. Ibrahim of Parga. Ibrahim, my sworn enemy. You departed from this life; you went to the other side. I hope you somehow hear me. I’d like to tell you these when you were alive while looking into your eyes. It wasn’t meant to be. I owe my thanks to you, Ibrahim. I lived a life that nobody can live. Your share is big, I won’t deny it. You chose me. You offered me to His Majesty. Even if you regretted it a thousand times, it is the truth. In fact, you and I were two fans around the fire. The fire is Sultan Suleyman himself. I stopped. I knew my place. But you didn’t, Ibrahim. You got closer and closer. You circled and burnt as you circled. You burnt to ashes. Souls are immortal, I know. I will have to face unsettled accounts sooner or later. Then we’ll meet again, Ibrahim. ’

— Magnificent Century, Hürrem Sultan, ep. 134

Richelieu seemed to have experienced some emotion. He wrote to Chavigny: ‘ I beg God with all my heart that he has given eternal rest to the Queen’s soul. I am happy to have seen by letters that she has a great repentance for her faults and that she has forgiven with a great heart those whom she held as her enemies. ’ The tragedy which had been played out between these two people had a disconcerting epilogue. Another letter from Richelieu to Chavigny reveals: ‘ Sieur Riolan (Marie de Medici’s doctor) writes to me that he is keeping the Queen’s parrot for me, which I once had the honour of giving her. I beg the King to see fit to make me the heir to this animal. ’

— Philippe Erlanger, Richelieu: l’ambitieux, le révolutionnaire, le dictateur

#richelieu #magnificent century #the musketeers #marie de medicis #ibrahim pasha #cardinal richelieu #hurrem sultan #haseki hurrem sultan #both armand and hurrem are basically on their deathbed and have kind #almost affectionate #thoughts about their deceased nemesis #bbc the musketeers #ottoman empire

‘ Thus, even the power of a queen crowned at Saint-Denis remained at the mercy of the King’s pleasure. Richelieu was haunted by this idea of “disgrace” which was to remain his obsession. He thought of the incredible fortune of the Concinis and of their sudden collapse, and looked for the faults and the errors that would lose triumphant favourites. There was no trace of discouragement in his morose reflections, no desire to give up the conquest of power. On the contrary. The ambitious man was thinking only of learning from this first defeat the salutary lessons that would one day lead him to victory. ’

— Philippe Erlanger, Richelieu: l’ambitieux, le révolutionnaire, le dictateur

#richelieu #cardinal de richelieu #ibrahim pasha #magnificent century #the musketeers #history #parallels #I don't know how much on point they are #but I've reached a point of no return

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