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CATHERINE DE MEDICIS (1519–1589).

L.S. ‘Caterine’, Monceaulx, 10 September 1570, to Raymond de FOURQUEVAULX, ambassador to Spain; countersigned by CHANTEREAU; 1 folio-sized page, address on the reverse.

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L.S. ‘Caterine’, Monceaulx, 10 September 1570, to Raymond de FOURQUEVAULX, ambassador to Spain; countersigned by CHANTEREAU; 1 folio-sized page, address on the reverse.

Horses for her son-in-law Philip II of Spain. She sent ‘to the King of Spain, my son, six of the finest mares that could be found in these parts’, and instructed Fourquevaulx ‘to present them to the King of Spain on my behalf with the most courteous and gracious words you can muster’…