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éminence grise

 
     
  éminence grise


The power behind the throne. The archetypal grey eminence was Father Joseph, the Capuchin monk who provided spiritual reassurance as well as expert diplomatic assistance to Cardinal Richelieu, the early seventeenth-century French statesman, who was eight years his junior.
 
 

 

 

 
 
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