CHRESTIENNE DE FRANCE. 7 L.S. including 4 with autograph add - Lot 203

CHRESTIENNE DE FRANCE. 7 L.S. including 4 with autograph additions, Turin and Moncalieri June-December 1662, to Marquis Francesco Villa, her ambassador in Paris; 5 countersigned by the Marquis of San Tommaso; 33pages folio, 5 addresses with seals under paper (one with black wax seals with arms); in Italian. Important diplomatic correspondence from the Regent of Savoy to her ambassador at the Court of Louis XIV.In particular, it concerns a negotiation to obtain from S.M. the possibility of redeeming a credit on the Duke of Mantua held by the Prince and Princess Palatine and by the heirs of Cardinal Mazarin (June 14); a negotiation with the Marquis de Lionne concerning the interests of Villafranca and Billion (June 23). The Regent proposes to support the King's nephew's interests at the Court of Rome, after the departure of the Duc de Créqui [following the affair of the Pope's Corsican guard against the ambassador's French guards] (September 23). It returns to the detention of the Billon, the affair of the expulsion of the nuncio Piccolomini, and the ultimatum made to the Vice-Legate and Consuls of Avignon for the dismissal of the Avignon papal guard (October 13). The last two letters (November 29 and December 23) concern negotiations for the marriage of H.R.H. his beloved son Charles-Emmanuel II to Mademoiselle de Valois (Françoise-Madeleine d'Orléans); Chrestienne sends the Marquis Pallavicino, bearer of a diamond chain, to be presented on the wedding day; his son will present his bride, on the day of the contract, with a rich diamond box and a diamond punch; the dowry should not be less than fifty thousand gold ecus...