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472 - Jacques de GRAVEL, Abbot of Argentan, diplomat, extraordinar…
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Jacques de GRAVEL, Abbot of Argentan, diplomat, extraordinary envoy to the Electors of Trier and Mainz. L.S., Würzburg, 26 January 1669, [to the Elector Palatine]; 2 folio pages (trace of a tab). Marshal de Créquy, believing himself to be near Heidelberg, decided to entrust the abbot ‘with the commission he has given me in a letter I have received from him […] or Your Electoral Highness will better understand his sentiments than any expression I might have attempted to convey on my own initiative’. He offers his services to the Elector through the Marshal, ‘having no doubt that Your Highness has shorter and more convenient channels than mine for conveying your wishes to him’… [This refers to the disbandment of the troops following the War of Devolution.]
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part II
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