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CHEVREUSE (Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchess of). Autograph letter signed "Marie de Rohan", TO LOUIS XIII ("au roy mon souverain seigneur"). Dunkirk, June 6, 1640. 3 pp. in-folio, address on the back, remnants of red wax armorial stamps, tears with small lacks due to the opening with damage to a letter. VERY BEAUTIFUL LETTER OF EXILE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. "WHEN I WAS IN THE HOPE OF ENJOYING THE EFFECTS OF YOUR MAJESTY'S GOODNESS, I FOUND MYSELF IN THE PLEASURE OF BEING MORE DISTANT without being able to accept that my misfortune, which, which, pursuing me in England at the point where I was ready to leave it, obliged me to go to Flanders to avoid the inconveniences of which my husband's trip to this country was threatening me. I presented them to her, Sire, with all the humility and affection for which I am obliged to her, in order to preserve the liberty of going to you to render the obedience and the very humble thanks I owed to the graces she had seen fit to give me for my return to France by sending her, but, Sire, my gent testifies that nothing was possible. I HAD TO RESOLVE TO PASS INTO THIS COUNTRY, WHICH I HUMBLY SUPPLY TO YOUR MAJESTY TO BELIEVE THAT I HAVE DONE WITH AS MUCH PAIN AS I HAVE HAD TO ENTER SPAIN and with the same resolution to leave as soon as the neccessity that brings me there allows me to do so, There is nothing but his own loyalty which can keep me there, as it was only his loyalty which brought me there, protesting to Your Majesty that there is nothing in the world that can prevent me from maintaining everywhere the respect and affection that I owe to her person and to her service, hoping also always for her justice that she will interpret the sincerity of my intentions as resonance gives them to me and truth makes me tell them to Your Majesty, and will not deprive me of the honor of her benevolence since I will never distance myself from the affection I bear, Sire, for your most humble and most obedient sugette and servant Marie de Rohan. I will not bother Your Majesty any further about the subject of my misfortunes, by writing to Monsieur le Cardinal [de Richelieu] so that Your Majesty may be informed... " A LIFE OF AMOROUS AND POLITICAL INTRIGUES. After a free and pampered youth, Marie de Rohan (1600-1679) married in 1617 Charles d'Albert, made duke of Luynes in 1619, but who died prematurely in 1621 after having been named Constable of France. The following year, she was given in second marriage to Claude de Lorraine, duke of Chevreuse. This alliance with a prince of a sovereign family strengthened her position at the Court where she was already superintendent of the House of Anne of Austria since 1618. "Galant, lively, bold, enterprising" (La Rochefoucauld), the Duchess of Chevreuse collected male conquests, including the Keeper of the Seals Marquis de Chateauneuf or Duke Charles IV of Lorraine, and engaged in all sorts of political cabals. Described by the cardinal de Retz as "the most convinced lady of the kingdom of factions", she led complex and even confused actions, made of successive passions, according to her taste of entertainment and her devotion to those she loved. She was notably part of almost all the plots against Richelieu and then against Mazarin, but never saw her undertakings succeed. She had to take refuge three times in exile, in Lorraine in 1628, in Spain, in London and then in Spanish Flanders from 1637 to 1643 (refusing to follow her husband who tried to bring her back to France), and finally in Brussels from 1643 to 1649. She retired from public life in 1674.

CHEVREUSE (Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchess of). Autograph letter signed "Marie de Rohan", TO LOUIS XIII ("au roy mon souverain seigneur"). Dunkirk, June 6, 1640. 3 pp. in-folio, address on the back, remnants of red wax armorial stamps, tears with small lacks due to the opening with damage to a letter. VERY BEAUTIFUL LETTER OF EXILE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. "WHEN I WAS IN THE HOPE OF ENJOYING THE EFFECTS OF YOUR MAJESTY'S GOODNESS, I FOUND MYSELF IN THE PLEASURE OF BEING MORE DISTANT without being able to accept that my misfortune, which, which, pursuing me in England at the point where I was ready to leave it, obliged me to go to Flanders to avoid the inconveniences of which my husband's trip to this country was threatening me. I presented them to her, Sire, with all the humility and affection for which I am obliged to her, in order to preserve the liberty of going to you to render the obedience and the very humble thanks I owed to the graces she had seen fit to give me for my return to France by sending her, but, Sire, my gent testifies that nothing was possible. I HAD TO RESOLVE TO PASS INTO THIS COUNTRY, WHICH I HUMBLY SUPPLY TO YOUR MAJESTY TO BELIEVE THAT I HAVE DONE WITH AS MUCH PAIN AS I HAVE HAD TO ENTER SPAIN and with the same resolution to leave as soon as the neccessity that brings me there allows me to do so, There is nothing but his own loyalty which can keep me there, as it was only his loyalty which brought me there, protesting to Your Majesty that there is nothing in the world that can prevent me from maintaining everywhere the respect and affection that I owe to her person and to her service, hoping also always for her justice that she will interpret the sincerity of my intentions as resonance gives them to me and truth makes me tell them to Your Majesty, and will not deprive me of the honor of her benevolence since I will never distance myself from the affection I bear, Sire, for your most humble and most obedient sugette and servant Marie de Rohan. I will not bother Your Majesty any further about the subject of my misfortunes, by writing to Monsieur le Cardinal [de Richelieu] so that Your Majesty may be informed... " A LIFE OF AMOROUS AND POLITICAL INTRIGUES. After a free and pampered youth, Marie de Rohan (1600-1679) married in 1617 Charles d'Albert, made duke of Luynes in 1619, but who died prematurely in 1621 after having been named Constable of France. The following year, she was given in second marriage to Claude de Lorraine, duke of Chevreuse. This alliance with a prince of a sovereign family strengthened her position at the Court where she was already superintendent of the House of Anne of Austria since 1618. "Galant, lively, bold, enterprising" (La Rochefoucauld), the Duchess of Chevreuse collected male conquests, including the Keeper of the Seals Marquis de Chateauneuf or Duke Charles IV of Lorraine, and engaged in all sorts of political cabals. Described by the cardinal de Retz as "the most convinced lady of the kingdom of factions", she led complex and even confused actions, made of successive passions, according to her taste of entertainment and her devotion to those she loved. She was notably part of almost all the plots against Richelieu and then against Mazarin, but never saw her undertakings succeed. She had to take refuge three times in exile, in Lorraine in 1628, in Spain, in London and then in Spanish Flanders from 1637 to 1643 (refusing to follow her husband who tried to bring her back to France), and finally in Brussels from 1643 to 1649. She retired from public life in 1674.

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