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Jacques Marquis de Castelnau Marsechal de France...
Jacques Marquis de Castelnau Marsechal de France...
J. Frosne Sculpsit.
A paris chez F. Jollain [n.d., c.1680.]

Jacques de Castelnau-Bochetel (1620-58), lieutenant general of the king's armies during the Thirty Years War. In 1658, he took the fort of Leon near Dunkirk from the Spaniards and began strenghening work on the fortifications. During an inspection he was shot by a musket which lodged in his body. The king rewarding the capture of Leon by making Castelnau marshal of France, but he died of his wound a month later, aged only 38 years old.
[Ref: 51443]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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La queue luy pend au petit bon homme.
La queue luy pend au petit bon homme.
J. Frosne sc.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Rare engraving, rich impression. Sheet 360 x 475mm (14½ x 18¾"). Trimmed to printed border, mounted on card at top.
An allegory of life in four scenes, running left to right. On the left is a young boy holding up the skirts of a young woman, being walked by a man marked as being aged 25; next are couples aged 40 and 60, and ending with a seated couple, aged 80.
[Ref: 54714]   £680.00  
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