MARIE DE MÉDICIS. Letter signed "Marie" to... - Lot 28 - Osenat

MARIE DE MÉDICIS. Letter signed "Marie" to Jean de Lauzon, treasurer general of France in Poitiers, countersigned by Paul Phélypeaux as secretary of State. Paris, June 12, 1614. One p. in-folio, address on the back with vestige of seal, two folds entirely split and restored on the back with lack of some letters, nicks proper to the closing system. "I have received the letter that you and several other officers of the king sir my son and inhabitants of the CITY OF POICTIERS have written to me of the xiiith of this month, and have seen by icelle and by the report that you have sent to me the TUMULTE AND DISORDER that some desnommez there have made in the said city of against some private individuals. I RECOGNIZE HOW MUCH THESE ACTIONS ARE PREJUDICIAL TO THE AUCTORITY AND SERVICE OF THE KING my lord and son, if those who have committed them do not promptly justify themselves. I WILL SEND A COMMISSION to some officer that I will send to the place to inform about it, and then proceed against them according to the requirement of the fact. However, I am grateful for the gentleness and moderation with which you have behaved on this occasion, and I urge you to do everything you can, along with all the other inhabitants of the said city, to preserve the city in obedience to the king, my lord and son..." THE PRINCE OF CONDE DEFEATED IN POITIERS. After the assassination of Henri IV, his widow Marie de Médicis soon had to face a revolt of the Great Ones, all confessions included. She managed to obtain the defection of several of them, including the Prince of Condé, by concluding the peace of Sainte-Ménéhould in May 1614. However, the same Condé wanted to make himself master of Poitiers in June 1614 by trying to influence the election of the mayor, assured that he believed himself of the sympathy of the governor, the duke of Roannez. The bishop of Poitiers, Henri-Louis Chasteigner de La Roche-Posay, took energetic measures to make this maneuver fail and even had the duke of Roannez locked up for a time. An emissary of Condé was molested by a furious crowd, and the prince himself was forbidden to enter the city. Movements of royal troops, formal investigations in Poitiers, and new negotiations with the prince allowed to avoid a war situation.