tag:danbooru.me,2005:/comments 2016-03-17T07:33:54-04:00 tag:danbooru.me,2005:Comment/1515368 2016-03-17T07:33:54-04:00 2016-03-17T07:33:54-04:00 <img src="/cdn_image/preview/c6/ca/c6ca066dce32c4072b0efc63b00be5c4.jpg"/> <blockquote> <p>Claverhouse said:</p> <p>Looks like a bad surname for a French Republican ship... All the 18th &amp; 19-century Richelieus were loyal men who stayed true to the legitimist cause.</p> <p>There was one who was a Siamese admiral, but he died in 1932 and never wore puffy shorts with his dress uniform.</p> </blockquote><p>It's named for an earlier figure in French history, Cardinal Richelieu, who died in 1642. He was the first minister to make France into a naval power. One of his famous quotes is "<em>Les larmes de nos souverains ont le goût salé de la mer qu'ils ont ignorée</em>." ("The tears of our sovereigns have the salty taste of the sea that they have ignored.")</p> chowell /users/151696 tag:danbooru.me,2005:Comment/1388048 2015-04-26T07:27:56-04:00 2015-04-26T07:27:56-04:00 <img src="/cdn_image/preview/c6/ca/c6ca066dce32c4072b0efc63b00be5c4.jpg"/> <p>Looks like a bad surname for a French Republican ship... All the 18th &amp; 19-century Richelieus were loyal men who stayed true to the legitimist cause.</p><p>There was one who was a Siamese admiral, but he died in 1932 and never wore puffy shorts with his dress uniform.</p> Claverhouse /users/72775