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FRANÇOIS II. Letter signed "Françoys" "à noz tré chers grandz amys les duc, seigneurie Républicque de Gennes et protecteurs de l'Office S[ain]t George" countersigned by Florimond Robertet as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Fontainebleau, July 28, 1560. one p. oblong folio, address on back, wax armorial seal under paper; small cracks due to the letter's closing system, 4 perforations with damage to 2 words, cracks in folds, one long one partly restored. "Trés chers et gradz amys, le collonnel Sampetro Corse nous a fait remonstrer entendre les reffuz et difficultez qui luy sont par vous faictes de rendre les maison, biens et deniers qui appartenoient au sr Alphonse son filz et a la signore Vannina sa femme... Nous vous prions, aultant affectue que faire povons adce que pour amour et en faveur de nous, vous soyez contans de rendre et faire rendre aud[ict] Alphonse son filz et a sad[icte] femme lesd[icts] maison, biens et deniers que vous leur retenez sans les laisser travailler pour le paiement desd[icts] deniers et vaisselle d'argent perduz..." RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY KING FRANÇOIS II, THEN THIRTEEN YEARS OLD, whose reign, under his mother Catherine de Médicis, was very short, from July 10, 1559 to his death on December 5, 1560.

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FRANÇOIS II. Letter signed "Françoys" "à noz tré chers grandz amys les duc, seigneurie Républicque de Gennes et protecteurs de l'Office S[ain]t George" countersigned by Florimond Robertet as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Fontainebleau, July 28, 1560. one p. oblong folio, address on back, wax armorial seal under paper; small cracks due to the letter's closing system, 4 perforations with damage to 2 words, cracks in folds, one long one partly restored. "Trés chers et gradz amys, le collonnel Sampetro Corse nous a fait remonstrer entendre les reffuz et difficultez qui luy sont par vous faictes de rendre les maison, biens et deniers qui appartenoient au sr Alphonse son filz et a la signore Vannina sa femme... Nous vous prions, aultant affectue que faire povons adce que pour amour et en faveur de nous, vous soyez contans de rendre et faire rendre aud[ict] Alphonse son filz et a sad[icte] femme lesd[icts] maison, biens et deniers que vous leur retenez sans les laisser travailler pour le paiement desd[icts] deniers et vaisselle d'argent perduz..." RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY KING FRANÇOIS II, THEN THIRTEEN YEARS OLD, whose reign, under his mother Catherine de Médicis, was very short, from July 10, 1559 to his death on December 5, 1560.

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