ANNE OF AUSTRIA (1602–1666) Queen of France. Autograph letter, Montceaux, September 3, 1635, to Marshal de Brézé; 1 page in-4, addressed with 2 small red wax seals bearing the coat of arms on pink silk lacs (2 small holes repaired, resulting in the loss of a few letters). Letter of condolence to the Marshal following the death of his wife, Nicole du Plessis-Richelieu, the younger sister of Cardinal Richelieu. “My cousin, The great sorrow and distress you are experiencing due to [the] passing of my late cousin, the Marshal’s Wife de Breze—being too overwhelming to put into words in the early throes of grief—it will suffice for me to assure you that I share in it all the more because of the goodwill I hold for you and the esteem I have always had for the rare qualities of the one whose whose loss you mourn.”…