Richelieu

>>2378077
>sends money to Protestant Sweden while confiscating Protestant lands in France
Bamtmaster

Absolute

>>2378077
>when you pay sweden to invade germany but they lose so hard that all the protestant princes sue for peace and you have to enter the war yourself

>>2378077
Not really a madman. Extremely prudent, methodical man but with unlimited ambitions.
Probably the single most important man of the 17th century from a /his/ perspective but I guess it's downplayed by Anglo not caring about him either way.

>tfw you solidify the french state around the baby King even more than it is already is with "la Fronde", and unbeknownst to you usher in the gradual fading of the nobility
>in other words, you have litterally started the trend which will culminate in the French revolution to give the French king more power
I give it "Absolute/10" madman level.

>>2379052
that was mazarin anon

>>2378077
I keep seeing this guy around but I've never understood his importance. Someone give me a quick rundown in this guy

>>2381077
He JUST'd the Austrians, Made France the sole winner of the Thirty Years War, and started the L E F T B A N K French policy