Cardin Le Bret (1558–1655) was a French jurist, known as the major supporter of the legal basis for the rule of

Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...

in France. On the key issue for absolutist conceptions of government,

sovereignty Sovereignty is the defining authority within individual consciousness, social construct, or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the perso ...

, he stated that “sovereignty is no more divisible than the point in geometry”. His 1632 book on sovereignty has been called “the juridical handbook of the Richelieu regime”.

J. H. Elliott Sir John Huxtable Elliott (23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He p ...

, Richelieu and Olivares (1991), p. 124.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Bret, Cardin 1558 births 1655 deaths 17th-century French lawyers 17th-century writers in Latin Latin-language writers from France Ancien Régime office-holders