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REACTING TO NEWS OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF DON CARLOS CHARLES IX; KING OF FRANCE. Letter Signed, "Charles," to French Ambassador to Spain Raymond de Rouer de Pavie de Beccarie, Baron de Fourquevaux, in French, expressing incredulousness at the news of the imprisonment of Carlos, Prince of Asturias, requesting further information, reporting that it was difficult to learn the details from King Philip II's ambassador in France Francis de Alava, expressing pity for Don Carlos and hoping for reconciliation between him and his father. Countersigned by Secretary of State Nicolas de Neufville. 1¼ pages, folio, with integral address leaf; minor tears and curling at edges, faint scattered staining, horizontal folds. Paris, 13 February 1568
"I find the fact of the imprisonment of the Price of Spain the strangest thing I ever heard. Not being able to believe it--that this could have happened . . . to a man such as you have described . . . . --I want to be enlightened as to the truth . . . . The man in question [Francis de Alava] made no sign of talking with us until he realized . . . that I was aware of the said fact [imprisonment of Don Carlos] . . . . He began to speak to us . . . but in such a way that he didn't seem to want to . . . go into the matter, but rather he said to us only that there were things between the father and the son which did not go beyond that relationship and were very likely to quiet down . . . ."
