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ROCHEFOUCAULD, François VI, Prince de Marcillac, Duc de la (1613-1680). Autograph document signed, a promise to Monsieur l'Esnet, also signed by Louis II de Bourbon-Condé, Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, Anne de Bourbon, Duchesse de Longueville and Charles-Amadeus of Savoy, Duc de Nemours, Mourond, 16 September 1651, half page, folio, contemporary docket on verso.
An undertaking to their emissary to Spain not to reach any agreement without indemnifying him for any loss which he may suffer while on their business: 'a Monsieur l'Esnet allant par nos ordres traiter en Espaigne de ne faire aucun acommodement sans quil soit desdomagé des pertes quil pouroit faire dans toutte nostre affaire'.
A conspiracy in the second rebellion of the Fronde: La Rochefoucauld had supported the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars against Richelieu, and was strongly opposed to Mazarin. In 1645 he entered into a liaison with Anne de Longueville, the forceful sister of Louis and Armand de Bourbon, and joined them in the 'Fronde des nobles', from September 1651 to September 1653. In 1652, a head wound sustained at the battle of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine enforced La Rochefoucauld's retirement to his country estate after two decades of fruitless intriguing. His involvement in the salons and literary activities began only in the 1660s; his Maxims were published anonymously in 1665.
An undertaking to their emissary to Spain not to reach any agreement without indemnifying him for any loss which he may suffer while on their business: 'a Monsieur l'Esnet allant par nos ordres traiter en Espaigne de ne faire aucun acommodement sans quil soit desdomagé des pertes quil pouroit faire dans toutte nostre affaire'.
A conspiracy in the second rebellion of the Fronde: La Rochefoucauld had supported the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars against Richelieu, and was strongly opposed to Mazarin. In 1645 he entered into a liaison with Anne de Longueville, the forceful sister of Louis and Armand de Bourbon, and joined them in the 'Fronde des nobles', from September 1651 to September 1653. In 1652, a head wound sustained at the battle of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine enforced La Rochefoucauld's retirement to his country estate after two decades of fruitless intriguing. His involvement in the salons and literary activities began only in the 1660s; his Maxims were published anonymously in 1665.
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