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OLD REGIME. 24 letters from the seventeenth and...

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[OLD REGIME]. 24 letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth. A few wet spots. Duchess de CHEVREUSE (congratulations for a marriage with mademoiselle Colbert). Duke of ROQUELAURE. François de BÉTHUNE count of Orval (1654). Gabrielle d'AIMAR (love letter to her lover the Duke of Epernon). Jean-Louis Nogaret de La Valette, duke of ÉPERNON (1640, after the death of his son the duke of Candalle, sending his secretary to Venice to recover his effects) + a certificate signed in 1587 as governor of Provence (very damaged). Mademoiselle de MONTANDRE, duchess of LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (nice letter with silk lakes). Marshal of RICHELIEU (Bordeaux, 1758). Marquis d'ORMESSON, 1st of the name (1768). Duke of CHAULNES (1756). Jean-Baptiste COLBERT DE TORCY (1743). Duke of ROHAN (1749). Nicolas de Lamoignon marquis de BASVILLE (1714). And some other letters of unidentified personalities of the XVIIth and XVIIIth, several with silk lakes: H. G. de FOYX (to the Marquis de Duras, 1657), de SILLY, DU FRESNE (to the Chevalier de Garranne, 1634), SOURDIS (after a naval victory, 1641), etc. Attached is a printout "Arrest of the Court of Parliament against Cardinal Mazarin, of 11 March 1651" (damaged)