Cardinal Richelieu and the ghosts of empires past – Asia Times

Across the street, the shade of Anthony Eden, Britain s prime minister during the Suez disaster, walked his dog Nipper. Admiral Rozhestvensky, the Russian commander at the Battle of the Tsushima Strait in 1905, sat motionless on a park bench.

We all get a day pass when a great empire falls, Richelieu said cheerfully. This was my fourth séance with his spirit and I had never before seen him in such an expansive mood.

You are talking about the fall of Kabul, said I.

Bingueaux!, said the shade. It is America s Tsushima Strait, its Syracuse, its Fall of France.

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