MAZARIN , Cardinal de - Lettre autographe signée à COLBERT - (Bergues) - 1658

MAZARIN Jules, Cardinal de (1602-1661), French prelate and statesman of Italian origin.
Confident and friend (?) of Anne of Austria, he succeeded Richelieu, the chief minister of state of Louis XIII, and later of the regent Anne of Austria and Louis XIV.

Signed handwritten letter to Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Le Cardl MAZARINI

Dated from Bergues on July 23, 1658. 3 pages in 12°.
On joint 1 engraved portrait.

It was under Le Tellier's shadow, and especially that of Mazarin, that Colbert made his rise. A man of trust for the cardinal since 1651, he became his private steward in October 1653, and gradually gained Louis XIV's trust in this role.
End of the Franco-Spanish war.
Letter written after the successes of the Battle of the Dunes and the sieges of Bergues, Furnes, Dixmude, and during the siege of Gravelines.

I have sent you two packages with several letters for various people without writing to you, and the last one I gave this morning just before leaving Calais to a gentleman of Mr. le Prince de Comty. If you could send me the two thousand louis or its value, along with what I have given additionally for the dragons and the soldiers of Brouagge (...) It would be good for you to also send the soldiers, and in the greatest number.
As many as he may be able to. I kindly request that you often send to the Queen and to Monsieur, while the King is at Compiègne, melons and fruit from Vincennes, so well packed that nothing is spoiled along the way. It would even be necessary to buy the finest fruit and send it as if it were from Vincennes (...)
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