1 | Pre-philately

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|ABOUT|1638. (July 18). From the "French Camp at the Siege of FUENTERRABIA" to GAND (letter from the Count of Gramont, later Duke and Marshal of France, to the Jurors and Council of the Ville de Bagneren). The siege of Fuenterrabía ended with the French defeat attributed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the town made a vow to celebrate the victory in her honour every year (known as the Alarde every 8th of September, a tradition that today, four centurien later, is still maintained). MAGNIFICENT AND LETTER OF ENORMOUS HISTORICAL INTEREST, PROBABLY THE ONLY KNOWN LETTER FROM THIS PERIOD AND THE OLDEST REPORTED LETTER OF A FRENCH MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SPAIN.