MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME (1492-1549) Queen of Navarre, nicknam - Lot 238

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MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME (1492-1549) Queen of Navarre, nicknam - Lot 238
MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME (1492-1549) Queen of Navarre, nicknamed the Marguerite des Marguerites; sister of François I, wife (1509) of Charles IV d'Alençon (1489-1525), then in 1527 of Henri d'Albret, King of Navarre (1503-1555); a woman of letters, she is the author of the Heptameron. L.A.S. "Marguerite", [ca. 1540], to Claude de Lorraine, duke of Guise; 1 page in-4, address on verso "To my cousin Monseigneur de Guyse" (corner torn without touching the text; engraved portrait enclosed). Beautiful and rare letter, speaking of her brother King François I, her nephew the future Henri II, and her husband the King of Navarre. She wants to tell her "cousin and good brother [...] the great satisfaction that the King has for the service you do him". She promises him "that the praise you give to Mons. his son will return to you so that if God continues your happy fortune I will not hold you less happy to have confirmed this love of the King and his son to you and your house by perpetual obligation that they of all the conquests that they can make [...] The King of Navarre asks you to hold hand so that the Germans can leave well all on which is founded his hope of the service that he hopes to make to the King. You know how much he loves you"...
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