ORLÉANS (Gaston d'). Autograph letter signed "Gaston" TO HIS BROTHER KING LOUIS XIII. Paris, May 22, 1630. 1 p. in-4, address on verso, slight trace of tab on verso. "My lord, having given an account to Your Majesty of the affairs of his army by the letter which I have written, this one is TO MAKE HIM THOUSANDS OF GRACE FOR THE TRUST AND AFECTION WHICH HE PLEASED ME TO SHOW BY THE JOBS HE GIVES ME AND TO TELL HIM AS I HAVE BELIEVED, until I had another order from Your Majesty that it was appropriate for me to send back to France my cousins the Dukes of Chevreuse and La Rochefouquault and also my cousin the Duke of Longueville, as they could provide a large number of cavalry in a short time. I told them that I would make you their excuses. You will therefore tell me, if you please, if you find it good and you will do me the honor of believing that I will return to you all my life the respect and obeisance that I owe you, being your most humble and most obeis[e]ance servant and subject... ". After being exiled to Lorraine from September 1629 to January 1630, because of Louis XIII's opposition to his marriage plans, Gaston d'Orléans made his submission in April 1630: his brother welcomed him and appointed him his lieutenant general in the city of Paris and neighboring provinces. However, an eternal agitator, Gaston d'Orléans took up the torch of revolt after the Day of the Dupes (November 1630), which consecrated the authority of Cardinal de Richelieu.