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
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