MARGUERITE DE VALOIS (1553-1615, 'la Reine Margot', queen of Henry de Navarre, from 1589 King Henry IV of France). Autograph letter signed ('Marguerite') to Monsieur de Causac, 'a l'Usan' [Usson], 10 September 1596, 3 pages, folio , integral address panel, fragment of small wax seal, contemporary endorsements (seal slits, small splits in centre folds, slightly browned).
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS (1553-1615, 'la Reine Margot', queen of Henry de Navarre, from 1589 King Henry IV of France). Autograph letter signed ('Marguerite') to Monsieur de Causac, 'a l'Usan' [Usson], 10 September 1596, 3 pages, folio , integral address panel, fragment of small wax seal, contemporary endorsements (seal slits, small splits in centre folds, slightly browned). THE IMPRISONED QUEEN. An abject apology (written during her imprisonment in the Auvergne) to a friend and sympathiser that she cannot fulfil a promise to bestow upon him a vacancy which the King [Henry IV] has commanded her to bestow elsewhere. 'Jam[ai]es personne qui vous soit plus amie et vous desire tant de bien que moy. J'eus[s]e desire le vous temoig[n]er en la vacquanse de [...] que je vous ai promis mes [mais] les premieres nouvelles que j'ai eus sent un Com[andeme]nt du Roi par une lettres tres affectionee par ou il me priait le ba[i]ller a M[onsieu]r de Montespan'. Marguerite continues on other matters concerning the King and her wish to give him no cause to refuse her demand, mentioning her advocate, Monsieur de Chambaut, and emphasing throughout the letter her warm feelings towards her correspondent. The daughter of Catherine de Medici and, from 1572, wife to Henry of Navarre, Marguerite de Valois was noted for her beauty and learning, and also for her loose living. She was banished to the grim fortress of Usson by her brother Henry III, in 1586, and remained there after the accession of her husband as Henry IV, while he attempted to find a means of marrying his mistress, the captivating Gabrielle d'Estrées. Marguerite's chief concern in 1596 was to secure a financial settlement from him. By her generosity and guile she acquired a band of supporters at Usson, undeterred by reports of her increasingly tawdry succession of lovers.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS (1553-1615, 'la Reine Margot', queen of Henry de Navarre, from 1589 King Henry IV of France). Autograph letter signed ('Marguerite') to Monsieur de Causac, 'a l'Usan' [Usson], 10 September 1596, 3 pages, folio , integral address panel, fragment of small wax seal, contemporary endorsements (seal slits, small splits in centre folds, slightly browned).
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS (1553-1615, 'la Reine Margot', queen of Henry de Navarre, from 1589 King Henry IV of France). Autograph letter signed ('Marguerite') to Monsieur de Causac, 'a l'Usan' [Usson], 10 September 1596, 3 pages, folio , integral address panel, fragment of small wax seal, contemporary endorsements (seal slits, small splits in centre folds, slightly browned). THE IMPRISONED QUEEN. An abject apology (written during her imprisonment in the Auvergne) to a friend and sympathiser that she cannot fulfil a promise to bestow upon him a vacancy which the King [Henry IV] has commanded her to bestow elsewhere. 'Jam[ai]es personne qui vous soit plus amie et vous desire tant de bien que moy. J'eus[s]e desire le vous temoig[n]er en la vacquanse de [...] que je vous ai promis mes [mais] les premieres nouvelles que j'ai eus sent un Com[andeme]nt du Roi par une lettres tres affectionee par ou il me priait le ba[i]ller a M[onsieu]r de Montespan'. Marguerite continues on other matters concerning the King and her wish to give him no cause to refuse her demand, mentioning her advocate, Monsieur de Chambaut, and emphasing throughout the letter her warm feelings towards her correspondent. The daughter of Catherine de Medici and, from 1572, wife to Henry of Navarre, Marguerite de Valois was noted for her beauty and learning, and also for her loose living. She was banished to the grim fortress of Usson by her brother Henry III, in 1586, and remained there after the accession of her husband as Henry IV, while he attempted to find a means of marrying his mistress, the captivating Gabrielle d'Estrées. Marguerite's chief concern in 1596 was to secure a financial settlement from him. By her generosity and guile she acquired a band of supporters at Usson, undeterred by reports of her increasingly tawdry succession of lovers.
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