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RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean Du Plessis de). Signed letter to Marshal de Brézé. Amiens, September 1, 1641. 1/2 p. large folio, address on spine, 2 red wax armorial seals, one perfectly preserved with silk ribbon. "Ce billet pour tesmoigner à Monsr le mar[ech]al de Brezé LE CONTENTEMENT QUE J'AY de ce que luy mr le mar[arech]al de La Melleraie sont partis du lieu ou ilz estoient, de voir par leurs lettres reciproques l'union et la bonne intelligence qui est entre eux. I beseech them to continue in this state of mind, to put before their eyes that great affairs do not succeed without difficulties. J'ESPERE QU'ILZ FINIRONT CETTE CAMPAGNE AVEC GLOIRE REPUTATION POUR EUX, et le désir de tout mon cœur... " Marshal Urbain Maillé de Brézé and Marshal Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraie (future duke) had family ties with Richelieu: the former was his brother-in-law, and the latter his first cousin. Excellent men of war, they scored many military successes in Picardy and Flanders, first separately, then in conjunction from 1641 onwards.
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RICHELIEU (Armand-Jean Du Plessis de). Signed letter to Marshal de Brézé. Amiens, September 1, 1641. 1/2 p. large folio, address on spine, 2 red wax armorial seals, one perfectly preserved with silk ribbon. "Ce billet pour tesmoigner à Monsr le mar[ech]al de Brezé LE CONTENTEMENT QUE J'AY de ce que luy mr le mar[arech]al de La Melleraie sont partis du lieu ou ilz estoient, de voir par leurs lettres reciproques l'union et la bonne intelligence qui est entre eux. I beseech them to continue in this state of mind, to put before their eyes that great affairs do not succeed without difficulties. J'ESPERE QU'ILZ FINIRONT CETTE CAMPAGNE AVEC GLOIRE REPUTATION POUR EUX, et le désir de tout mon cœur... " Marshal Urbain Maillé de Brézé and Marshal Charles de La Porte de La Meilleraie (future duke) had family ties with Richelieu: the former was his brother-in-law, and the latter his first cousin. Excellent men of war, they scored many military successes in Picardy and Flanders, first separately, then in conjunction from 1641 onwards.
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