RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean Du Plessis de). Letter... - Lot 7 - Osenat

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RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean Du Plessis de). Letter... - Lot 7 - Osenat
RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean Du Plessis de). Letter signed "le card. de Richelieu" to Jacques de Belle d'Aspremont, governor of Casteldelfino ("Chasteaudauphin"). Pinerolo ("Pignerol", in the Italian Piedmont), April 4, 1630. 1 p. in-folio, address on the back, armorial seals of red wax with vestiges of silk lakes. The cardinal of Richelieu worked resolutely to open "doors" in the borders with the neighboring powers of France, to facilitate interventions intended to stop the progress of Spain in Europe. To do this, it was necessary to conquer and then hold strongholds in Germany (such as Brisach), but also in Piedmont (Châteaudauphin, Pignerol, Casal), where this was to cut the communication route from Genoa to Milan. Duke Charles-Emmanuel I of Savoy having decided to ally himself with Spain, Richelieu and Louis XIII launched military operations in Piedmont in 1639, which resulted in the capture of Pignerol, Casal and Turin in March 1630. Hostilities, however, did not cease against the Spanish troops of Genoese Ambrogio Spínola until the signing of the Treaty of Cherasco in 1631. "I have received your letter, in reply to which I have nothing else to say to you except that IF YOU CAN SEURENTLY ENTER THE FORT OF ST. PETER [currently Sampeyre, downstream from Casteldelfino in the Varaita valley] with the troops you can collect from the valleys, I will be very happy to do so, I will be very happy, but I beg you not to attempt anything if you do not believe you will prevail, and to continue to make good guards on the passages of the Dauphiné so that no one passes, and to inform me of what you will learn of importance to the service of the king... " Located in the Varaita valley in the Italian Piedmont, the place of Casteldelfino (Châteaudauphin) was under the control of the Dauphiné since the 14th century and remained French until 1713. The village of Sampeyre (here "Saint-Pierre"), located not far downstream, was on the other hand on the lands of the dukes of Savoy.
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