KING LOUIS XIV LETTER TO CAMP CHIEF OF THE REGIMENT OF SAINT-VALLIER

Description: "KING LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE Letter to Pierre Felix de La Croix de Chevrieres, Count of Saint-Vallier, Colonel and Camp Chief of the Regiment of Saint-Vallier from 1666 to 1671" Countersigned by Michel le Tellier, the Secretary of State for Military and War in Paris on March 28, 1668Size: 14" x 9.4" (37 cm x 24 cm), Signed and WatermarkedThis document is a historical record involving signed letter from King Louis XIV of France and Michel Le Tellier, the Secretary of State for War to Pierre Félix de La Croix de Chevrières, comte de Saint-Vallier Colonel and camp chief from 1666 to 1671. It is related to the assignment of a position (referred to as a "charge d'insigne") to a man named du Breuil within the regiment of Saint-Vallier where du Breuil was assigned. This regiment later became known as the regiment of Artois, the 48th infantry regiment during the French Revolution.Michel (IV) Le Tellier, Marquis de Barbezieux, Lord of Chaville, Étang and Viroflay, is a French statesman, Chancellor of France in 1677, born April 19, 1603 in Paris and died October 30, 1685 in the same town.Pierre-Félix de la Croix de Chevrières (June 10, 1644 in Grenoble - June 16, 1699 in Grenoble), from the family of the Croix de Chevrières, was Marquis de Chevrières, Count of Saint-Vallier.He made his first campaign at the age of 20, in Africa under the orders of the Duke of Beaufort. and at the capture of Gigery. On December 20, 1666, he was named colonel of an infantry regiment of the little old corps which then took the name of the Saint-Vallier regiment. He commanded it in the Army of Flanders under the orders of Marshal de Créquy, then at the siege of Dôle, then at the aid of Candia, in 1669.He was appointed to the State and Privy Councils and provided in 1670 with the position of captain of the guards of the King's Gate. He campaigned in Holland, Flanders, and Franche-Comté. By letters patent of February 1682, Louis XIV erected the land of Chevrières into a marquisate. The king confirmed the titles of the county of Saint-Vallier by letters patent of April 1687 and of the county of Vals by letters patent of September 1690.King Louis XIV of France (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), authentic, autographed manuscript document dated April 26, 1694. King Louis XIV was well known as King Louis the Great or the Sun King. He ruled as King from 1643 until his death - a tenure of over 72 years and the longest of monarchs in major countries in European history. After the death of his Chief Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, Louis began his own personal rule of France. A champion of the system of absolute monarchical rule, much of his success was brought upon by eliminating the remnants of feudalism and by inviting several members of the nobility to live at the Palace of Versailles, for which King Louis had moved his family and the court of government to in 1682. The Royal Families of France remained at Versailles until the outbreak of the French Revolution in October of 1789. During Louis' reign, France became the leading power of the European countries and participated in three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis and his wife Maria Theresa of Spain had six children, all for which only one survived to adulthood. Upon his death, he was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV. The Maison du Roi ("The King's Household") was the royal household of the King of France. It comprised the military, domestic and religious entourage of the French royal family during the Ancient Regime and Bourbon.

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