Fate and duty

"Fate and Duty" is another very exciting and fascinating historical novel by Lev Cherny.A strong personality is always attractive, and a strong personality in history who has committed the Fates of nations and peoples, especially. One of these people was Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu. But in France, he, one of the creators of the modern country, has never been supplied, not a single monument. The French have forgotten about him. Why? I do not know. I can only assume that all these kings and emperors, presidents and first ministers, and even the common people of France, have not yet decided on the question: What is Cardinal Richelieu for France? What exactly did he do?Expanded state borders to "natural", according to him, limits? Stopped the nobility revolts, limited the arbitrariness and self-will of the highest nobility? Defeated the Huguenots, ending the long shaking France Religious Wars? Yes. But at what cost!Increase in taxes, impoverishment and population decline, constant insurrections and uprisings of the discontented. And besides, these endless wars for the greatness of France, costing much blood and sacrifice. All this is so.But Louis XIV, at which France reached the pinnacle of his power and greatness, would never have been able to say his famous - STATE IS ME! - if it was Cardinal de Richelieu who did not lay solid stones in the foundation of his reign.In the novel Fate and Duty, against the background of what Richelieu did for France and in world history, the life of the Norman nobleman Alexander de Briand passes. War and rebellion, love and hate, court intrigue and political conspiracy, secret murder and espionage, blood and death - such was the life of Alexander de Briand, and with it the entire generation that lived in this difficult, difficult time.