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GUISE François de Lorraine, duc de (1519-1563) lieutenant général de Franc
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GUISE François de Lorraine, duc de (1519-1563) lieutenant général de France, il défendit la France contre Charles-Quint et prit la tête des armées catholiques pendant les guerres de religion | il fut assassiné devant Orléans
L.A.S. "Francoys de Lorraine", Paris 16 May [1556, to his father-in-law Hercules II d'ESTE, Duke of FERRARE (1508- 1560)]| 4 pages in-fol.
A long and important letter on the eve of the new Italian campaign.
He assured the Duke at length of his feelings of affection and devotion and those of his wife, the Duke's daughter [Anne d'Este, married in 1548]. Then he tried to dissuade him from his plan to travel to France: "it seems to me that your voyage of dessa is not only useful to you but necessary for many reasons [...]....] and denies that the main thing that will make my fame and my life worthwhile if I undertake the voyaige is that, in order to go along the rather mauve path and in times of heat and to carry long packs of clothes worn for a single job, you will be damaging your health, which we will say is very pleasant and better preserved than ours and our lives [...]....] and as for the safety of your health during your absence it had been very good that the world.
Sgr. vre filz i fust demoré but having only wanted that after the publication of the tournament or his majesty appointed her with him lung des tenens who prayed to him not to leave, he could not leave following your command"... Guise is certain, however, that the Duke will be able to keep in his state "the necessary order and security before your departure as a choice which is important to you at all and for which you cannot be too jealous considering my dearest wishes, for which I am not afraid that the Papacy's victory for Carpi, for which, however, I hold your subject for such loyalty that it will never fail you"... [Two months later, with the resumption of war between the Spaniards and Pope Paul IV, Henry II entrusted the command of the new expedition in Italy to the Duke of Guise, and associated the Duke of Ferrara in league with the Pope.]
PROVENANCE
Former collection L.-A. BARBET (15-16 November 1932, n° 116).
L.A.S. "Francoys de Lorraine", Paris 16 May [1556, to his father-in-law Hercules II d'ESTE, Duke of FERRARE (1508- 1560)]| 4 pages in-fol.
A long and important letter on the eve of the new Italian campaign.
He assured the Duke at length of his feelings of affection and devotion and those of his wife, the Duke's daughter [Anne d'Este, married in 1548]. Then he tried to dissuade him from his plan to travel to France: "it seems to me that your voyage of dessa is not only useful to you but necessary for many reasons [...]....] and denies that the main thing that will make my fame and my life worthwhile if I undertake the voyaige is that, in order to go along the rather mauve path and in times of heat and to carry long packs of clothes worn for a single job, you will be damaging your health, which we will say is very pleasant and better preserved than ours and our lives [...]....] and as for the safety of your health during your absence it had been very good that the world.
Sgr. vre filz i fust demoré but having only wanted that after the publication of the tournament or his majesty appointed her with him lung des tenens who prayed to him not to leave, he could not leave following your command"... Guise is certain, however, that the Duke will be able to keep in his state "the necessary order and security before your departure as a choice which is important to you at all and for which you cannot be too jealous considering my dearest wishes, for which I am not afraid that the Papacy's victory for Carpi, for which, however, I hold your subject for such loyalty that it will never fail you"... [Two months later, with the resumption of war between the Spaniards and Pope Paul IV, Henry II entrusted the command of the new expedition in Italy to the Duke of Guise, and associated the Duke of Ferrara in league with the Pope.]
PROVENANCE
Former collection L.-A. BARBET (15-16 November 1932, n° 116).