HOLOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED by LOUIS DE VALOIS, Colonel-General of the Cavalry, granting permission for an individual to take leave.

- Over 130 words penned in a secretarial hand on an 11-3/4 inch high by 7-5/8 inch wide buff paper with an attached leaf. The document grants an individual permission to leave and return with his entourage. "Nous luy avons donne 'conge' de permission d'y aller a condition de retourner a sa [___] au premier Maudemt." and more specifically "permission de les laissee [____] passer et repasser avec son Equipage et ses Valets." Signed "Louis de Valois" with his seal stamped in blind at bottom left. The letter is annotated in a different hand along the top "Conge du 16-9[-]ve 1632". The document is docketed on the attached leaf. Folded vertically and horizontally. Very good. The son of Charles d'Angouleme and grandson of the King of France Charles IX, Louis-Emmanuel de Valois d'Angouleme (1596-1653) was Count of Auvergne and Governor of Provence, holding the office of Colonel-General of the Cavalry from 1624 and on April 17 1635 Marechal de camp. He was appointed Governor of the Provence beginning January 1638. Refusing orders from Cardinal Mazarin during "la Fronde", a series of French civil wars occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish war, Louis de Valois was recalled to court in 1650 and in 1653 was stripped of his governorship.…