Overview: France must now take up arms in this so-called "Thirty Years' War" which is devastating the whole of Europe. The conflict is also spreading on French soil... Richelieu and Louis XIII discover that Queen Anne of Austria, born Habsburg, gives information to her brothers, kings of Spain and the Spanish Netherlands. The king is about to repudiate her when an event upsets the kingdom and marks the History of France forever: the birth of the future Louis XIV!