Letter from Louis XIII to Cardinal de Richelieu

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Année de création :27 October 1641
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Autograph letter signed, on paper

The Letters Room, series I, III f^o 389

On 27 October 1641, Louis XIII (1601-1643) wrote from Chantilly giving Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642) news of the health of “Madame d’Enghien”, Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, Princess of Condé (1594-1650).

It was she who should have owned Chantilly, but the domain was confiscated in retaliation to conspiracies by her brother Henri II de Montmorency, who was executed in 1632. The king liked Chantilly, where he could indulge his passion for hunting and hold parties.

In 1643, after the king’s death and his son’s victory at Rocroi, Chantilly was returned to the Princess of Condé by order of the Regent Queen Anne of Austria.