SAVOIE (CHRISTINE DE FRANCE, FUTURE DUCHESS... - Lot 22 - Osenat

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SAVOIE (CHRISTINE DE FRANCE, FUTURE DUCHESS... - Lot 22 - Osenat
SAVOIE (CHRISTINE DE FRANCE, FUTURE DUCHESS OF). Autograph letter signed "Chrestienne" to the CARDINAL OF RICHELIEU. Turin, 22 October 1628. 1 p. in-folio, address on back, remnants of red wax armorial stamps; lower margin a bit frayed and soiled, short printed English catalog record pasted in upper margin. "Monsieur mon cousin, s'en alant en France mon[sieu]r l'enbasadeur Marine [Claudio Marini, marquis de Borgofranco, French ambassador in Turin from 1617 to 1629], j'ai creu que vous auriés agreable que par luy je vous assurease de l'entière confiance que j'ai en vous en tout ce qui me conserne, especially with regard to the present business which, not doubting that you can do much for my satisfaction, I would ask you with great affection to be willing to assist me, and to believe that with the great desire I have to make you aware of how much I fully value your friendship, that it will still convince me to reload the aucations, what while waiting I will also ask you to always continue me your good graces, and to give all credence to the Sieur Marine, that I will assure you to have recognized all full of pation to the service of France and all full of affection to my place, what so much I believed, that I could trust me in luy to tell you several things of viva voce and to assure you that I am entirely, Sir my cousin, your very affectionate cousin Chrestienne " DAUGHTER OF HENRI IV AND MARIE DE MEDICIS, SO SISTER OF LOUIS XIII, CHRISTINE DE FRANCE was duchess of Savoy from 1630 to 1637, by her marriage in 1619 with Victor-Amédée Ier, then exercised the regency there, from 1637 to 1648, in the name of their son Charles-Emmanuel II who married in 1663
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