LOUIS XIII (1601-1643). L.A.S., Saint-Germain en Laye November 16, 1633, to Garde des Sceaux Pierre Séguier; 1page in-4, address on verso, red wax seals (broken). He learns that the soldier Cointret of the Regiment de ses Gardes, "who served me on several good occasions, has been condemned to death this morning for a treslegere occasion". He asks the Garde des Sceaux to inquire promptly into the matter, and to send an exempt "to take him out of the hands of the executor and have him returned to prison until a more particular cognoissance and that I have otherwise ordered"...