Both men came into power in opposite ways, when Louis XIII and his minister Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642 they were replaced by an Italian adventurer by the name of Mazarin who was also a prince of the Church, and Louis XIII's son Louis XIV who was only five years old at the time. ... Both leaders came into power with very little education, but they did not let that hold them back. ...

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