![MALHERBE, François de (1555-1628). Autograph letter signed to M[onsieur] de la Berchère, Paris, 15 July 1626, one page, folio, address panel, small red wax seals, despatch slits. Provenance: Sotheby's, 27 November 1986, lot 396.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07411_0115_000(022246).jpg?w=1)
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MALHERBE, François de (1555-1628). Autograph letter signed to M[onsieur] de la Berchère, Paris, 15 July 1626, one page, folio, address panel, small red wax seals, despatch slits. Provenance: Sotheby's, 27 November 1986, lot 396.
A petition addressed to Berchère (president of the parliament of Burgundy) in the absence of the Duc de Bellegarde, and to be conveyed by the latter's messenger who has come for news of the Duke's wife ('p[ou]r scavoir des nouvelles de Mad[am]e sa femme'), asking for protection for Malherbe's son who has been pardoned by the king: 'Mon filz se va rendre au terme que luy a este donne par l'arrest du parlement p[ou]r jouyr de la grace quil a pleu au Roy luy f[ai]re. Vous estes Monsieur le principal directeur des voluntes de n[ost]re co[m]pagnie. Je v[ou]s supplye tres humblement quil se ressente de la p[ro]tection d'un si digne & si puissant magistrat comme v[ou]s estes'.
Malherbe's only son, Marc-Antoine, was frequently involved in disputes during his short life, including three duels which had tragic consequences. In 1622 he fought a duel with an officer of Jewish origin, obliging his father to hasten from Aix to Paris. In a duel two years later he killed Raymond Audibert of Aix, whose widow took proceedings against him. Malherbe sent him to Caen, but he was condemned by the seneschalsy of Aix in his absence. On Malherbe's appeal, the case was taken to the parliament of Burgundy, and letters of pardon were finally registered in 1627 when the widow was granted an indemnity. But Marc-Antoine died from wounds received in a third duel in 1628. Malherbe himself did not long survive him. The Duc de Bellegarde (Roger de Saint-Lary) was Grand Ecuyer de France from 1621 to 1639.
A petition addressed to Berchère (president of the parliament of Burgundy) in the absence of the Duc de Bellegarde, and to be conveyed by the latter's messenger who has come for news of the Duke's wife ('p[ou]r scavoir des nouvelles de Mad[am]e sa femme'), asking for protection for Malherbe's son who has been pardoned by the king: 'Mon filz se va rendre au terme que luy a este donne par l'arrest du parlement p[ou]r jouyr de la grace quil a pleu au Roy luy f[ai]re. Vous estes Monsieur le principal directeur des voluntes de n[ost]re co[m]pagnie. Je v[ou]s supplye tres humblement quil se ressente de la p[ro]tection d'un si digne & si puissant magistrat comme v[ou]s estes'.
Malherbe's only son, Marc-Antoine, was frequently involved in disputes during his short life, including three duels which had tragic consequences. In 1622 he fought a duel with an officer of Jewish origin, obliging his father to hasten from Aix to Paris. In a duel two years later he killed Raymond Audibert of Aix, whose widow took proceedings against him. Malherbe sent him to Caen, but he was condemned by the seneschalsy of Aix in his absence. On Malherbe's appeal, the case was taken to the parliament of Burgundy, and letters of pardon were finally registered in 1627 when the widow was granted an indemnity. But Marc-Antoine died from wounds received in a third duel in 1628. Malherbe himself did not long survive him. The Duc de Bellegarde (Roger de Saint-Lary) was Grand Ecuyer de France from 1621 to 1639.
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