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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 118

Documents
France
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
1660 (c.) (5 September) autograph letter (unsigned) from de Vincennes to King Charles II of England, with the address panel inscribed "Au Roy de la grande retagne Monsieur mon frère" with black wax seal and silk threads.


The message reads, "si j'attendois a fair responde a V[otre] M[ajesty] par mr l'ambassadeur elle seroit un peu longue n'estant pas venu icy pour peu de tems a ce qu'il m'a dit comme ... s'est une des choses du mon que je souette le plus que nous soions toujours bien en samble, je croi que n'ore pas de paine a le persuader a V.M. ...", There is some wear at the top with a small fragment missing and soiling down the outside of the central fold; there is a filing endorsement below the address panel. A very good royal letter. Photo

Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640 – 1701), was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His older brother was Louis XIV.


Philippe married his first cousin, Princess Henrietta of England, youngest child of King Charles I of England and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria, who was Philippe's aunt and had taken refuge at the court of France after the birth of Princess Henrietta in 1644. They lived at the Palais Royal and at the Palais du Louvre. In 1660, after the restoration of the House of Stuart to the throne of England under her brother Charles II, Princess Henrietta returned to England to visit her sister, the Princess of Orange, who later caught smallpox and died. The French court officially asked for Henrietta's hand on behalf of Philippe on 22 November 1660 while she was in England

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