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CONDÉ(Louis de Bourbon, prince de). Autograph letter signed "Louis de Bourbon" to the Duc de Longueville. Brussels, December 23, 1654. 1 p. in-4, address on back. "Celuy qui vous randra cette lettre entretiendra d'une affaire que je vous ai fait recommender par Fontenay, et comme il est pressé de servir cette persone-la, je vous conjure de faire ce qui est en votre pouvoir pour retarder le mal qu'on faitict qui seroit irremediable si on le laissoit aler plus avant. I will send you someone after tomorrow to tell you when I can see you. In the meantime, we will examine together the means of getting my friend off the hook, but I beg you to do everything in your power to ensure that... " AT ODDS WITH THE REGENT, MAZARIN, CARDINAL DE RETZ AND PARLIAMENT, THE PRINCE DE CONDÉ WAS THEN IN THE SERVICE OF PHILIPPE IV OF SPAIN. It was only after the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659) that he obtained a pardon from the royal authorities and was able to return to France. BEAUTIFUL BROTHER TO THE PRINCE DE CONDÉ, THE DUC DE LONGUEVILLE, Henri d'Orléans, was descended from Charles V through his ancestor the Comte de Dunois, bastard son of the Duc Louis d'Orléans. He distinguished himself in the service of the king's armies, but took part in the Chalais plot against Richelieu (1626), then in the Fronde against Mazarin (1649-1650). After his imprisonment (with Condé) in 1650, he retired to his government in Normandy, where he lived out his pious life.
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CONDÉ(Louis de Bourbon, prince de). Autograph letter signed "Louis de Bourbon" to the Duc de Longueville. Brussels, December 23, 1654. 1 p. in-4, address on back. "Celuy qui vous randra cette lettre entretiendra d'une affaire que je vous ai fait recommender par Fontenay, et comme il est pressé de servir cette persone-la, je vous conjure de faire ce qui est en votre pouvoir pour retarder le mal qu'on faitict qui seroit irremediable si on le laissoit aler plus avant. I will send you someone after tomorrow to tell you when I can see you. In the meantime, we will examine together the means of getting my friend off the hook, but I beg you to do everything in your power to ensure that... " AT ODDS WITH THE REGENT, MAZARIN, CARDINAL DE RETZ AND PARLIAMENT, THE PRINCE DE CONDÉ WAS THEN IN THE SERVICE OF PHILIPPE IV OF SPAIN. It was only after the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659) that he obtained a pardon from the royal authorities and was able to return to France. BEAUTIFUL BROTHER TO THE PRINCE DE CONDÉ, THE DUC DE LONGUEVILLE, Henri d'Orléans, was descended from Charles V through his ancestor the Comte de Dunois, bastard son of the Duc Louis d'Orléans. He distinguished himself in the service of the king's armies, but took part in the Chalais plot against Richelieu (1626), then in the Fronde against Mazarin (1649-1650). After his imprisonment (with Condé) in 1650, he retired to his government in Normandy, where he lived out his pious life.
