HENRI IV (1553-1610) Roi de France.
L.A.S., [end of December 1586?], to HENRI III, "To the King my sovereign seygneur"; 1 page folio, address (engraved portrait enclosed).
Beautiful letter from the King of Navarre to Henry III.
[He sends him Antoine de MORET lord of RÉAU, his chamberlain and adviser, whom he often charged with diplomatic missions. The letter comes shortly after the King of Navarre's meeting with Catherine de Medici at Saint-Bris near Cognac on December 9, 1586, which led to a truce that lasted until March 1587]. "I am now sending the sr. de Reau to your majesty to tell him what happened to my return during the last night's feast with the queen, fearing that in the meantime my actions will not be given any more than they are to your majesty, and that they will always be directed to the good of your servitude and the state, since there is no other other greater desire in this world than to give you very great proof of it when it will please you to give me the means and to do the good of your good graces, so I have given the charge to the sr. de Reau to make your majesty hear me more partially, which I suplye want to believe all the while that Your most humble and most obedient suget & servant Henry ".
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