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HENRI IV. Autograph letter signed TO THE DUC DE SULLY, WITH AUTOGRAPHIC APOSTILLE FROM THE DUC DE SULLY. Fontainebleau, October 3 [1609]. 3/4 p. in-4, address on spine; long marginal cut due to opening system formerly restored. "Mon amy, je vous fay ce mot pour le sr de Beaumont [Christophe de Harlay de Beaumont, former French ambassador to England], quy le randra vous, pour vous dyre, suyvant le co[m]mandemant que je vous fey[s] dernyeremant a Parys, [que] vous ayés a fere payer la pansyon de cet ho[m]me quy est an Flandres, car yl me peut plus cervyr que jamés, mayntenant que dela on doyt anvoyer un nouvel ambasadeur. Adieu, mon amy..." On the reverse, in his own handwriting, the Duc de Sully inscribed: "Le roy, du 2 octobre, pour un pantionnaire en Angleterre 1609".

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HENRI IV. Autograph letter signed TO THE DUC DE SULLY, WITH AUTOGRAPHIC APOSTILLE FROM THE DUC DE SULLY. Fontainebleau, October 3 [1609]. 3/4 p. in-4, address on spine; long marginal cut due to opening system formerly restored. "Mon amy, je vous fay ce mot pour le sr de Beaumont [Christophe de Harlay de Beaumont, former French ambassador to England], quy le randra vous, pour vous dyre, suyvant le co[m]mandemant que je vous fey[s] dernyeremant a Parys, [que] vous ayés a fere payer la pansyon de cet ho[m]me quy est an Flandres, car yl me peut plus cervyr que jamés, mayntenant que dela on doyt anvoyer un nouvel ambasadeur. Adieu, mon amy..." On the reverse, in his own handwriting, the Duc de Sully inscribed: "Le roy, du 2 octobre, pour un pantionnaire en Angleterre 1609".

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