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EASTERN FLANDERS : Audenaerde, Melsele, Berchem-Audenaerde, Deinze, Deurle…

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EASTERN FLANDERS : Audenaerde, Melsele, Berchem-Audenaerde, Deinze, Deurle... About 65 postcards, various periods.

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EASTERN FLANDERS : Audenaerde, Melsele, Berchem-Audenaerde, Deinze, Deurle... About 65 postcards, various periods.

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SULLY (Maximilien de Béthune de). Autograph letter signed "Maximilian de Bethune", [addressed to Pierre Jeannin]. Paris, May 1609. 2 pp. large folio, a few stains, three reinforced margins. "Monsieur, j'ai ve vu par vos lettres et coppies des actes que m'avés envoyés comme toutes choses se sont passees touchant ce qui concerne les affaires de mon cousin le prince d'Espinoy, par toutes lesquelles choses je juge que vos preudence et fermetté d'esprit sont très necessaires en la conduite et resolution d'une affaire contestee et dont nul autre que vous n'eust obtenu un tel avantage. Therefore, my said cousin and I thank you for so many proofs that you have taken and will remain forever very obliged to you and resolved to repay you with all kinds of services. Now, inasmuch as I foresee that THERE WILL NOT BE DISPUTES AND ANIMOSITES BETWEEN THE PRINCE D'ESPINOY AND THE PRINCESSE DE LIGNE, AND AS I AM RELATED TO BOTH OF THEM, I WILL DESERVE TO RECONCILIATE THEM and see to it that all things pass amicably, I beg you to make some overtures to the Princess de Ligne, either of aliances, marriages or submission of arbitrations such as you will advise for the best, for whatever you resolve I will submit to it, BUT I ASK YOU THAT THE OPENINGS THAT YOU MAKE BE SO CONSIDERED THAT THIS CANNOT PREJECT THE ADVANTAGE IN WHICH WE ARE NOW, BECAUSE OF THE TREATY OF THE TREVE. As for the claims that the Princesse de Ligne may have after the said treatise expires, this is something that will be remedied and that time may yet facilitate, which is why I am in no way advised to be retained from this consideration and aprehension. As for general affairs, I will write nothing to you, deferring everything to Mr de Villeroy's letters and the report that will be made to you by Mr de Préaux [Secretary of State Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, and Charles de L'Aubespine, abbé de Préaux, envoy extraordinary to the Netherlands, future Garde des Sceaux]. Continués-moy la faveur de vos bonnes graces et faictes estat asseuré de mon affection et fidelle service qui vous sont entièrement aquis. Sur ceste verité, je vous baise les mains..." JEANNIN SENT EXTRAORDINARY TO THE HAGUE. In May 1607, President Jeannin had been sent to The Hague to help ambassador Buzanval negotiate recognition of the independence of the United Provinces, or at least a truce with Spain - Henri IV also asked him to look into a project for a French East India Company. In January 1608, Jeannin secured the signing of a treaty of alliance between France and the United Provinces, and on April 9, 1609, succeeded in securing a truce in hostilities between Spain and the United Provinces (Treaty of Antwerp), a major step towards recognition of the latter's independence. He returned to Paris in the summer of 1609. INHERITANCE DISPUTES IN THE DE SULLY FAMILY AGAINST A BACKDROP OF EUROPEAN TENSIONS. The Duc de Sully was a distant uncle and guardian of Guillaume de Melun (1588-1635), Prince d'Épinay (hereditary constable of Flanders, seneschal and grand bailiff of Hainaut) and his sister Anne-Marie de Melun, Princesse de Ligne. Fatherless since 1594, they came to dispute the inheritance, the Prince d'Épinay supported by Henri IV through Sully, the Princesse de Ligne supported by her husband through the King of Spain. Sully had obtained in 1598 that the Treaty of Vervins include a specific provision concerning his protégés, and obtained again in 1609 that the Treaty of Antwerp devote an article to them. ONE OF THE GREAT DIPLOMATS AND MINISTERS OF THE REGIES OF HENRI IV AND LOUIS XIII, PIERRE JEANNIN (1540-1623) was of modest extraction, and became president of the Dijon parliament (1581). Although a moderate Catholic, he was a loyalist and entered the service of the Duc de Mayenne, for whom he carried out several political and diplomatic missions. In 1595, he rallied to Henri IV, who made him State Councillor the following year and called on him for important diplomatic posts. The 1609 truce between the United Provinces and Spain, for which he was instrumental, earned him praise from Scaliger, Barneveldt and Cardinal Bentivoglio. After the assassination of Henri IV, he was one of the "barbons": Marie de Médicis showed her confidence in him by appointing him Superintendent of Finances, a post he also held under Louis XIII. A collection of his Négociations diplomatiques was published in 1656.

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