LOUIS XIV (1638-1715). L.S. (secretary), Paris April 14, 1644, to the count of Alletz, colonel general of the light cavalry of France, governor and lieutenant general in Provence; countersigned by Michel Le Tellier; 1 page folio, seal with arms under paper, address (small split). He appointed, "by advice of the Reyne regente Madame my Mother", S. Ferron maistre de camp of the cavalry regiment to replace S. de Treilly. Attached is a printed placard with vignette of arms: panegyric in honor of the Most Christian King in the temple of the Royal College of the Society of Jesus, Aix-en-Provence 1664 (small holes and wetness).