Cardin Le Bret was a French jurist, known as the major supporter of the legal basis for the rule of Cardinal Richelieu in France.

On the key issue for absolutist conceptions of government, sovereignty

Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...

, 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”.