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Jules MAZARIN (1602–1661).
A letter signed by L.S. with the autograph inscription ‘Your most affectionate servant, Cardinal Mazarini’, Paris, 4 April 1645, to M. de MALESSEY, Marshal of the King’s Camps and Armies and Governor of Pinerolo; 1 folio page, addressed with black wax seals bearing the coat of arms, one of which is set on a black silk background.
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A letter signed by L.S. with the autograph inscription ‘Your most affectionate servant, Cardinal Mazarini’, Paris, 4 April 1645, to M. de MALESSEY, Marshal of the King’s Camps and Armies and Governor of Pinerolo; 1 folio page, addressed with black wax seals bearing the coat of arms, one of which is set on a black silk background.
Mr de Malessey is to receive ‘a guest whom the King sends to you’, President BARILLON. ‘Were it not for my knowledge of your loyalty and zeal in all matters pertaining to the King’s service, I would urge you to take great care to ensure his personal safety; but you have no need 64627
such an exhortation. Moreover, as he takes pride in his exiles, there is no indication that he wished to attempt to free himself from them other than through a recall. That is why I believe that what you must be most wary of will be the letters he might write’... [On 25 March 1645, Mazarin had Jean-Jacques de BARILLON, President of the Parliament of Paris, arrested; he had convened a meeting of the chambers to examine the state of the finances. Exiled to Pinerolo, President de Barillon died there almost immediately, on 30 August, leading some to claim that Mazarin had had him poisoned.]