Marie de LORRAINE (1565-1615?) wife of Charles I of Lorraine, Duc d'Aumale. L.S. with autograph postscript, Paris March 17, 1611, to M. de Beugné, captain of Château d'Ussé; 1page folio, address on verso with small red wax seal of arms. About the château d'Ussé. She sends "a receipt for two thousand four hundred livres for a whole year's income from our land of Ussé and Mont Sigou" (in Touraine), although the term has not yet expired, and asks that this sum be remitted to the bearer "as we have a great deal to do with this part"... In her own handwriting, she asks that three masses be said for her at Notre Dame des Ardilliers "while waiting for God to give me the grace to complete my voiage"...