Letter signed (secretary), addressed to pope Innocent X; countersigned by de
Loménie. 1 p. in-plano oblong on watermarked paper, seal under armorial paper (detached). Paris, January 23, 1654. Address on the back.
Answer to the brief he sent him through the archbishop of Athens, about his mediation to negotiate "the peace so necessary to Christendom" with the "Roy Catholique" [Philip IV of Spain]. "It is therefore with this King who has seemed distant that the officers of your Holiness must be employed. And disposing him to contribute to it, what she desires for the good of all will provide her with the satisfaction she desires, and it is a pressing motive for us to make it possible for the passion we have that
Your Reign be commendable to posterity for having, by his care, put an end to the troubles which could be prejudicial to Christendom by the facility they give to the common enemy to take advantage of them for his own benefit [...]".
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