Richelieu. René Descartes. French Thinkers

Richelieu. Historical figures who live in an era of changing orders cannot hope for a fair evaluation from their contemporaries. Therefore, it is not surprising that Cardinal Richelieu was during his lifetime and for some time after his death the... object of both the greatest praise and the most severe criticism. Protestant writers do not recognize in him any talents or even abilities, willfully ignoring the services he rendered to France. For Catholics, Richelieu appears, in turn, as a most brilliant statesman endowed with political wisdom unparalleled in the annals of history. René Descartes. Mathematician, philosopher, physiologist, mechanic, and physicist, whose ideas and discoveries played a significant role in the development of several scientific fields. He developed the algebraic symbolism that we use to this day, became the "father" of analytical geometry, laid the foundations for the emergence of reflexology, created mechanism in physics, and that is far from all his achievements. The relationship between Cardinal Richelieu's reactions to the searches, including spiritual ones, of the great thinker is also interesting.