TURENNE, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de, Marshal of France (1611-1675). Autograph letter signed ('Turenne') to a cardinal ('Pour son Eminence' [Cardinal Mazarin]), 'au camp de binche', 18 September n.y. [1654], 3 pages 8vo , address panel, remains of red wax seal (small seal tears touching 2 words, tiny hole in vertical crease, small traces of tape).
TURENNE, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de, Marshal of France (1611-1675). Autograph letter signed ('Turenne') to a cardinal ('Pour son Eminence' [Cardinal Mazarin]), 'au camp de binche', 18 September n.y. [1654], 3 pages 8vo , address panel, remains of red wax seal (small seal tears touching 2 words, tiny hole in vertical crease, small traces of tape). A report from the campaign in northern France during the French- and Anglo-Spanish war, acknowledging a letter from the cardinal and commenting in detail on the situation of Le Quesnoy (which he had captured twelve days earlier), in particular on the difficulties of wintering in the area: 'Je men expliques avec M[onsieur] de Castelnau et lui dis que si on pouvoit hiverner dans ce pais, je ne demanderois point que personne que lui commandast aux troupes et aux places que lon auroit prises mais que nayant que le quesnoi ie croirois que ce seroit un lieu ou il ne voudroit pas demeurer. Il en tomba daccord et je puis asseurer V[ostre] E[xcellence] que le dedans de la place est entiremen ruiné y ayant hiverné sept reg[iments] de cavallerie lhiver passe. Le pais d'autour est fort desert dont jai este fort estonné et on ne peut considerer en [re]gardant la place que lincommodité[?] que cela donne aux ennemis et le service que [il] peut rendre lannee qui vient pour quelque dessin considerable'. Le Quesnoy, close to Calais, was regarded as of strategic importance, and had been strongly fortified by Charles V when it passed into Spanish possession. Turenne refers several times in the letter to 'Monsieur de Castelnau': Jacques de Castelnau-Mauvissière, a protégé of Mazarin, was present at a number of sieges conducted by Turenne, and was responsible for breaking the Spanish cavalry at the battle of the Dunes shortly before his death.
TURENNE, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de, Marshal of France (1611-1675). Autograph letter signed ('Turenne') to a cardinal ('Pour son Eminence' [Cardinal Mazarin]), 'au camp de binche', 18 September n.y. [1654], 3 pages 8vo , address panel, remains of red wax seal (small seal tears touching 2 words, tiny hole in vertical crease, small traces of tape).
TURENNE, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de, Marshal of France (1611-1675). Autograph letter signed ('Turenne') to a cardinal ('Pour son Eminence' [Cardinal Mazarin]), 'au camp de binche', 18 September n.y. [1654], 3 pages 8vo , address panel, remains of red wax seal (small seal tears touching 2 words, tiny hole in vertical crease, small traces of tape). A report from the campaign in northern France during the French- and Anglo-Spanish war, acknowledging a letter from the cardinal and commenting in detail on the situation of Le Quesnoy (which he had captured twelve days earlier), in particular on the difficulties of wintering in the area: 'Je men expliques avec M[onsieur] de Castelnau et lui dis que si on pouvoit hiverner dans ce pais, je ne demanderois point que personne que lui commandast aux troupes et aux places que lon auroit prises mais que nayant que le quesnoi ie croirois que ce seroit un lieu ou il ne voudroit pas demeurer. Il en tomba daccord et je puis asseurer V[ostre] E[xcellence] que le dedans de la place est entiremen ruiné y ayant hiverné sept reg[iments] de cavallerie lhiver passe. Le pais d'autour est fort desert dont jai este fort estonné et on ne peut considerer en [re]gardant la place que lincommodité[?] que cela donne aux ennemis et le service que [il] peut rendre lannee qui vient pour quelque dessin considerable'. Le Quesnoy, close to Calais, was regarded as of strategic importance, and had been strongly fortified by Charles V when it passed into Spanish possession. Turenne refers several times in the letter to 'Monsieur de Castelnau': Jacques de Castelnau-Mauvissière, a protégé of Mazarin, was present at a number of sieges conducted by Turenne, and was responsible for breaking the Spanish cavalry at the battle of the Dunes shortly before his death.
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