1667-1668

XCIX, 232, transaction, 29 October 1667, Mlle de Guise, living in the Tuilleries [i.e., the "Volière," a house she had fixed up for herself], and Michel Piteau, con^er du Roy, receveur for the domaine of Angouleme ... staying momentarily in hotel de Valois, fbg. St. Germain, and Louis Denis, fermier of the domaine of Angouleme, to end a lawsuit over the rights she claims there.

XCIX, 232, procuration, 25 November 1667, Mlle de Guise to M^e Augustin de Longchamps, commis à la recette generale des domaines de Caen, Bayeux et Falaise ... re the money to be paid her "par les officiers dependans des vicomtez de Caen, Evrecy, Bayeux, Torigny, and Falaise...

XCIX, 232, ratification, 7 November 1667, Mlle de Guise, and matters in Angouleme.. Also involves Mathieu and Christophle Galliot, marchands of fbg St. Jacques...and has to do with cutting wood at Angoulesme.

XCIX, 232, procuration, 31 December 1667, Mlle de Guise to Louis Cauvin, bourgeois de Paris, who is to receive the profits from the fermages on properties involved in a lawsuit about Caen, Bayeux, etc., dating from the lifetime of Duke Henry.

XCIX, 232, bail, 30 December 1667, Mlle de Guise to François Raveneau, bourgeois de Paris, rue du Coq Heron, of the rights in Normandy; which include justices, jurisdictions, domaines fieffez et non fieffez, vassaux, fiefs, arrieres fiefs, cens, rentes, champartes, terres, prés, pastures, fours, moulins, woods, ...etc...

XCIX, 232, transaction, 19 December 1667, Mlle de Guise , living at Hotel de Guise, and Dom Jean Chesosstome Cornet, Order of St. Benedict, of Congregation of St. Maur, living at St. Germain des Pres, procureur for the religieux of Saint Fiacre en Brie of the same order, per procuration passed before Lumigny, notaire at Meaux, per lettres patentes of 1270 [??] by late Jean de Chastillon, comte de Blois, chanoine perpetuel of St. Fiacre... 10 livres of rente were due per year sur le village de Guise. Here is what it says: "sur le village de Guise et plus claires revenues de la terre de Guise à condition que la tierce partye d'icelle seroit employé à faire un luminaire ardent devant le corps de St. Fiacre, une autre tierce partye en pitance [to the monks], et l'autre tierce partye [to the poor] qui vont requerir le corps de St. Fiacre...." to be distributed by town officials. So... in 1661, the monastery a "fait assigner aux requestes du pallais M^r Claude Carpeau, cy-devant recever general du domaine et duché de Guise... to pay 16 years of arrears...

XCIX, 234, transaction, 10 June 1668, Mlle de Guise demeurant en son hostel es marais du Temple [i.e., Hotel de Guise] .... re a rente her father had created in 1635.

XCIX, 234, 17 May 1668, proc Mlle de Guise to le Sieur Lamy... not revealing at all

XCIX, 234, proc. 28 April 1668, Jean François Le Brun, trésorier général of Mlle de Guise and procureur for the Grande Mademoiselle, re estate of late Henry, and, per another procuration of same date, inside it, she creates Jean de Roquette, con^er du Roy et controlleur general des finances de Languedoc...

XCIX, 234, procureur, 25 April 1668, she creates procuration for M^e Pierre Lattaignan, as her procureur fiscal en sa terre et chastellenie d'Aut (or Ault).

NOTE: the carmelites of the rue du Bouloir use CXII in 1667; and among the nuns signing are the two whose correspondence with Florence is reproduced as a Fugitive Piece: "Seur Francoise de la Crois" and soeur "Therese de Jesus.".

XCIX, 235, bail, 8 August 1668, Mlle de Guise, hotel de Guise, procuratrice general of Louis Joseph de Guise, and Jacques Arnaud, marchand at Marseille, currently in Paris. The two Guises, "en quallité de seuls seigneurs et proprietaires de la place et fort du Bastion de France scitué aux Massacares en Barbarie, du Midy, Cap Negre, La Calle, Le Calloux, Cap de Royes, Touroux, Gigery, Boune et autres places ... rent them out for 29 years to Arnaud from the time when the "premiere barque aura esté chargée ausdits lieux"... The governor and captain there is the Sieur d'Heureux, but he "ne peut poinct vaquer à l'exercice de ladite charge à cause de ses incommoditez" and therefore is "attaché pres la personne de Mondit Seigneur duc de Guise"; so Mlle de Guise consents that Arnaud should carry out the functions of the charge and will get the "provisions de lieutenant"; and the sieur d'Heureux "sera payé par chacun an la somme de 2400 lt..." Should d'Heureux die during those 29 years, the Guises can name as gouverner "telle personne que bon luy semblera" and will present the candidature to the king (and that person will get the 2400 lt...) For all this, Arnaud pays the Guises 6000 lt per year.

XCIX, 235, procuration, 7 August 1668, Mlle de Guise "fait et constitue son procureur general et special Jacques de Forget, l'un des gentilzhommes de sadite Altesse. Elle donne pouvoir de recevoir de M^e Jacques d'Oleançon, chevalier de Vilerville, the sum of 2600 lt on "les droictz de treizieme appartenant à Mlle de Guise comme engagiste des domaines de Caen, Bayeux et Falais, à cause de l'acquisition faite par led. S^r Doleançon de la baronnye de Courcy" in 1658.

XCIX, 235, procuration, 4 August 1668, Mlle de Guise: this procuration générale for Louis Joseph de Guise, names Antoine de Sabutier/ Sabatier, con_er, aumosnier ordinaire du roy, seigneur et prieur de Cheré, to settle dissensions at Lambesc and to make a "bail general pour trois ou six années, tant des revenues de la baronnye d'Orgon, du duché de Joyeuse, que de la baronnye de Rocquemaure..." and also for Lambesc.

XCIX, 235, compromis, 11 September 1668, Mlle de Guise for Louis Joseph de Guise, and M^e Michel Piteau, con^er du roy, receveur du domaine d'Angoulesme, y demeurant, currently in Paris, logé rue St. Louis pres les Quinze Vingts re the lawsuit currently before the eaux et forest du Pallais à Paris, concerning the "pesche et rempoissemment de l'estang du Soulan."

XCIX, 235, procuration, 2 September 1668, Mlle de Guise to Josué Prou, controlleur of the baronnie of Rocquemaure, au lieu et place de Jacques Jacquin, cy-devant commis à la recette du peage.... he will henceforth take care of the baronnie and the "droits de peage, the rentes, lodz et ventes, forestage du bois de Clary, glandages et herbages d'icelle, fours, greffes, amandes, confiscations, droict de pecherie sur la riviere de Rosné."

XCIX, 236, donation, 20 December 1668, Mlle de Guise, voulant "recognoistre et recompanser les services qui ont esté rendus à Mondit Seigneur le duc de Guise [Louis Joseph de Lorraine] et à sadite Altesse Mlle de Guise par M^e Leonnard Gobin, l'un de leurs secretaires durant les années 1659, 1660, 1661 et 1662, que le service dudit Gobin a finy à l'esgard de mondit seigneur et à l'esgard de sadite Altesse Mademoiselle jusques à present, mesme à la poursuitte des affaires de leursdites Altesses... she gives him the sum of 1800 lt, tant pour tout ce que ledit Gobin pouroit pretendre luy estre deub par leursdictes Altesses pour gaiges, appoinctemens et recompanses de services.... She also gave him a pension viagere of 300 lt...

1669

XCIX, 238, compromis, 30 April 1669, Mlle de Guise and Clement de Beaumont, marchand, bourgeois de Paris, demeurant on the Petit Pont, ... supplying merchandise to Madame de Guise [Louis-Joseph’s bride], "tant pour son mariage que depuis et jusques au 6 juin 1668," ... and sieur L'hermitte , rue de Fevre, and Gillon, rue St. Denis... decision by arbitration to pay 1000 lt...

XCIX, 238, mariage [attended by the Guises], 25 April 1669, of Jean Le Monnier, docteur en medecine and ancien lecteur of univ. of Montpellier, professeur aux mathematiques, conseiller et medecine ordinaire du roy et de SAR Mlle de Montpensier, médecin et gouverneur des pages de leurs Altesses de Guise, demeurant à l'hostel de Guise....son of Richard Le Monnier and Thomasse Laisné, of parish of Touchet, ville et comté de Mortain au diocese d'Avranches, and Dlle Jeanne Besset, daughter of late Jean Besset, bourgeois de Montbrison and Catherine Regis, ... His guests include: Mme de Guise, Duke of Guise, Mlle de Guise, Mlle Marie de Lorraine d'Elbeuf, Messire Guillaume de Melet, con^er du roy, premier ecuier of SAR Mme de Guise, M^e Christophle de Roquette, coner du roy, m^e orde of chambre des comptes, M^e Jacques de Heuville, gouverneur du bastion de France, M^e Antoine Alphonse de Soillac, escuier of Mme de Guise, M. Estienne de Rochefort, ecuier de Mlle de Guise, M^e René Alaneau, chevalier, seigneur de la Bonaudiere, M^e Jean De Pis, advocat au Parlement et au conseil d'Etat privé, M^e Jean-François Le Brun, tresorier of leurs Altesses de Guise, Mr. ---- Gourdon, secrétaire des commandemens de leursdites Altesses, ---- and Philippe Goibaut du Bois [the future intendant of the Guise Music], who signs but is not named. The bride’s guests include her mother, M^re Jacques Canoye, con^er in Parlement, Gaspard Papon, ecuyer, sr du Puyslamard, garde du corps du roy, Jacques Deseoly, ecuyer, sgr de la Paumiere, and Guillaume Duguet, avocat in parlement, cousin...

XCIX, 238, procuration, 4 April, 1669, Mlle de Guise names as her procureur Laurens Gosseau, advocat in Parlement for the duché d'Angoulesme, chastelannie of Congnac, Merpins ... for duc de Guise...

XCIX, 238, compte, 24 May 1669, by M. de Bridieu [the governor of Guise] to Louis Joseph de Guise:
"Compte de la recette et despence faite par Monsieur de Bridieu pour Monseigneur le duc de Guise."
Recette:
For wood sold by order of "feu son Altesse," per contract of 1662, 9633 lt.
For money coming from the nommé Des Roziers provenant des debetz et reuirans [??] des anciens droits d'aides..in city of Guise.... 1750 lt 15 S.
For the aides for 7 plus years...3800 lt
Etc, etc.... among the the names cited is M^e Nicolas Le Tellier, commis à la recette general of the duchy of Guise,
Depense:
Then at the end: Mlle de Guise and Louis de Bridieu, chevalier, comte de Rosnay, lieutenant general des armées du roy et au gouvernement, ville, chasteau et duché de Guise... The total recette was 32,429 lt, 10 sols, and the depense was 47,235 lt, 6 sols. so the Guises must pay him the 14,805 lt, 16 sols difference.

XCIX, 238, cautionnement, 19 May 1669, M^e Pierre Deschiens, con^er du roy , controlleur general du domaine de SM et du tresor de la chambe des comptes à Paris; Jean Le Fevre de Bornay, avocat and con^er du roy, Noble homme Pierre Colbert, con^er du roy, controlleur général des postes... are cautions for Francois Moriset, s^r de la Court, ecuyer of Mlle de Guise. Mlle de Guise is acting in name of Louis Joseph de G and is offering 3 baux à ferme on Joinville, Val de Rognon and the baronnies of Esclaron and Ancerville...for 70, 500 lt per year.

XCIX, 238, procuration, 19 May 1669, Mlle de Guise to François Morisset sieur de la Court, to administer the income from the properties named in the above cautionnement

XCIX, 238, bail, 19 May 1669, by which Mlle de Guise leases the revenue from the greffe of justice, the coupe du bois and other rights, the mills, the ventes, confiscations, etc... of Marchais and Liesse to François Morisset.

XCIX, 238, bail, 19 May 1669, by which Mlle de Guise rents out the seigneurie and chateau of Roches sur Marne to Morisset.

XCIX, 238, bail, 19 May 1669, A detailed statement of the "articles et conditions" of her leases with Morisset.

XCIX, 238, quittance, 18 May 1669, Clement de Beaumont, marchand, bourgeois de Paris of the Petit Pont to Mme de Guise, 7,738 livres

XCIX, 238, transaction, 7 June 1669, Mlle de Guise and Pierre Bercher, bourgeois de Paris, rue Serpente, paroisse St Severin, who had been given a rent on 22,000 lt (see notary Le Moyne, 22 Dec. 1665) so Mlle de Guise could pay the principal and arrerages on a rente for 1000 lt due to Louis François Hennequin, con^er in the Grand Conseil and Marie Marguerite Lhoste his wife, ... he desires to redeem the rente.

XCIX, 238, convention, 6 June 1669, M^e Jacques Gaillard s^r de Senonville, con^er du roy in election of Ponthieu .... and Jean de Fontaine Pean, s^r de la Roachmery, m^e d'hostel of the Duke of Guise, living at hotel de Guise, ...to build some boats called "dragues"...

XCIX, 238, procuration, 5 June 1669, Mlle de Guise to Jacques Gaillard, s^r de Senonville ... to establish someone as receveur and percepteur in the comté of Ponthieu..; and in another procuration, 6 June, 1669, Mlle de Guise names Gaillard to try to get some payments due her there.

XCIX, 238, procuration, 6 June 1669, Mlle de Guise names "blank" to handle her rentes on Ile de France.

XCIX, 238, bail, 6 June 1669, Mlle de Guise to Jacques Gaillard, the recettes for the chatellainie of Ault.; and another procuration, 6 June, Mlle de Guise to Gaillard, for the domaine of Ponthieu, and a procuration for Louis Jacquet, bourgeois de Paris [it's the same sign as Louis Jacquet de la Buissiere] as procureur général for M^e Charles Lefebvre, notary at Ponthieu.

XCIX, 242, compromis, 17 May 1670, Mlle de Guise and Pierre Brodart, sieur de Boulan et Descley, of Rethel, to end a lawsuit in the Parlement about matter at Guise,

XCIX, 242, procuration, 21 April 1670, Mlle de Guise to Simon Bault, senior, sieur de Saint Liger, gentilhomme of SA Mgr the Duke of Guise, who can let out to a certain Durin the mill of Neufmaison in the chatellainie of Treson... and another procuration to do (notarial) transports in the duchy of Guise , and a third procuration to act at St. Quentin.

XCIX, 242, procuration, 20 April 1670, Mlle de Guise to Hannibal de Guillaumont, to handle for her the "verification et recherche des domaines de Sa Majesté in Languedoc, especially the baronnie of Roquemaure.

XCIX, 242, transport, 10 April 1670, Mlle de Guise to Mr. François Secousse, procureur ordinaire of Leurs Altesses in the Parlement; something is owed Louis Joseph de Guise by Philibert Gautier, and Charles de Thery, and Elis Gautier his wife, and which belonged legitimately to Philippes de Bailleul, widow of Louis Chalon du Bled d'Uxelles, guardian of her children.

XCIX, 242, convention, [1670], the Filles de S^te Magdelaine in Paris, rue des Fontaines devant le Temple, all professes from the visitation N.D. of Paris, who are forming a monastery of S^te Magd., and Mlle de Guise, re a "fille que Madite Demoiselle de Guise desire durant sa vie tenir dans ladite maison et communauté, c'est asscavoir que lesdites religieuses ont receue et admise en icelle maison et communauté de la Magdelaine Anne Pellerin, fille d'Antoine Pellerin et d'Anne Lauvrin, qui leur a esté presentée par Madite damoiselle pour y demeurer soit en la congregation ou y estre religieuse novice et faire profession sy elle en est jugée capable, et vivre et mourir selon les voeux, statuts et constitutions de la maison .... The nuns will take care of all her financial needs "comme aux autres filles de sa condition de ladite communauté"; and "affin qu'elle n'y soit point à charge," Mlle de Guise promises to pay 200 lt for her ammeublement et linge and "outre ce Madite damoiselle de Guise promet et seront ses hoirs et ayans cause tenus de payer la pension d'icelle fille à ladite maison" ... 200 lt per year for the life of the girl. Should she not become a nun, 'lesdites religieuses la pouront mettre hors d'icelle [maison] et la faire conduire en la maison de sadite mere, où estant delaissé elles en seront valablement deschargées...."

1671

XCIX, 246, quittance, 19 March 1671, Anthoine Hubert to Mlle de Guise. He was once a commissaire des guerres, was procureur for Marie de Fioraventi, femme separée de biens par sentence du Chatelet, 1670, d'avec André Langlois, her husband, cy devant gentilhomme servans de feu SAR Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans [Gaston] ... et cy devant premiere femme de chambre de Son Altesse Royalle Mademoiselle d'Alançon à present Mme de Guise... [Marie de Fioraventi and her brother had been part of young Mme de Guise’s household during her youth, and Mlle de Guise dismissed them in 1667, shortly after Mme de Guise’s marriage.] Fioraventi has gone to a notary in the baillage and duché de Valois, and lives at Villiers Cotterets... Hubert acknowledges receving from Mlle de Guise, procureur for Louis Joseph de Guise, the sum of 2558 lt 10 S, which is part of the 6000 lt that Mlle de Guise agreed to pay her, before St. Jean, 25 Aug 1667. Per the procuration attached, we learn nothing new.

XCIX, 246, quittance, 17 March 1671, Messire Pierre de Pastey, chevalier, seigneur de St. Hilaire, living at Velly in Normandy, baillage of Gisors, has received from Mlle de Guise 8,158 lt, 18 S, for a rente he received as heir of his later father, Jean Pierre de Pastey, seigneur de Chastelguier, from late Henry de Lorraine, duc de Mayenne in 1612 [sic] and, XCIX, 246, quittance, 31 Jan. 1671, Robert de Pastey, etc. and Mlle de Guise, re the old act

XCIX, 246, compromis, 13 March 1671, Mlle de Guise, for Louis Joseph de Guise, and Dom Hierosme Du Molins, religious of abbaye de Saint Urbain, procureur for the other monks, and Dlle Elisabeth Dehaste, femme de Pierre Dominé, sieur de Mesny, gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roy, procuratrice for Dame Magdelaine de Cauchon, widow of Henry de Thomassin, chev, seigneur de Dompgens .... before notary at Val de Rougnon, ... re a suit heard by the Grand Conseil, ... things are being kept pending.

XCIX, 246, rachapt, 2 March, 1671, M^e Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, con^er du roy, m^e des requetes...received from Mlle de Guise 44,000 lt pour rachat of the principal and amortissement of the 2000 lt rente created in 1667 (March 2) before Notary Bouret. Mlle de Guise declared that the 44,000 lt had been advanced to her by the Carmelites of the Grand Couvent, having today created a rente with them. The constitution to Carmelites of 2 March follows: Mlle de Guise constitutes to the Carmelites for as long as Louis Joseph de Guise is minor... , a rente of 2,000 lt per year for the sum of 44,000 lt, with the baronnies of Marchais and Liesse and Roquemaure in Langedoc, plus the gabelles of Languedoc... and Louis Joseph’s holdings at Joinville and Hotel de Guise as security.... The rente was eventually redeemed, per marginalia, on 2 July 1675, before Bouret.

XCIX, 246, quittance, 12 February 1671, Jacques Deponville, s^r de Druchamp + Elis Drouillard de la Barre, rue Montmartre; Alexandre François Le Vasseur, sieur de St. Vincent, con^er du roy et trésorier de ses gardes du corp, same address, and M^e Estienne Thomas, notary in Chatelet, have rec'd from Mlle de Guise 7,600 lt as reimbursement for the principal on a rente originally created for M^e Pierre de Remillart, abbé d'Aurillac, proc. for Cardinal de Joyeuse, and Nicolas L'escaloppier, con^er, notaire et secretaire du roy and Florent d'Argouges, con^er and tresorier general of the maison of the Reine, before Cottereau, 3 May 1601 [sic] .. and the whole history of the rente and how it got to the Deponvilles et al.

XCIX, 246, transaction, 1 February 1671, Mlle de Guise with Hugues Cousin, sieur de Senneville, of rue du Four, who claims expenses of 27,387 lt involved in making the Oise "navigable et flotable" as result of the traité he made with late Duke Henry in 1661, and there has been an arret du Parlement. She has examined the memoire of frais several times, tant avec ledit sieur Cousin qu'avec led. sieur d'Anjou, son homme d'affaire ... which they conclude total only 14,000 lt, so she will pay him 16,000 lt, which will cover his travel expenses as well.

XCIX, 246, traité, 7 January 1671, between Mlle de Guise and Hugues Cousin, re the wood contract ..., which involved the woods in the duchy of Guise, the making of charcoal, ... a quite thick document that would be interesting if finances were my subject.

XCIX, 246, transaction, 2 January 1671, the Grande Mademoiselle, Mlle de Guise and Louis Joseph de Guise, and Charles Henry de Malon, seigneur de Bercy, con^er du roy ... etc, re rights coming from Catherine de Cleves, duchess de Guise, and the estate of Philippes de Crouy duc d'Arschot.... there is currently a requete... going back to the 1640s and 50s and Duke Henry.

XCIX, 246, transaction, 11 January 1671, Mlle de Guise and M^e Pierre Henry, secretaire de M. Benoist, con^er in Parlement, Nicolas Girard, bourgeois de Paris, Jean de Ligny + Elisabeth Bouhier, Charles d'Albert duc de Luynes .... who have claims against late Charles de Lorraine de Guise and his wife [Mlle de Guise’s parents] for arrerages on a rente created prior to 1638. She pays what she is forced to pay them.

XCIX, 247, convention, 28 April 1671, Mlle de Guise with Nicolas de Villiers, marchand de bois, for the gruyerie de Guise for 1669-71, involving 37,158 lt worth of cutting. He pays them 3,000-odd livres.

XCIX, 247, procuration, 12 May 1671, Mlle de Guise to Jean François Le Brun, and her agents at Joinville, Ancerville, etc.. [i.e, Maulez, Thiriot and Guyot...]

XCIX, 247, consentement, 6 May, 1671, Mlle de Guise and Comte de Brancas desist in favor of Sr. de Villain. This is a very old and complex act by which Mlle de G. "claims no rights..."

XCIX, 247 transport, 2 May 1671, Mlle de Guise to Gabriel Cheret, bourgeois de Paris, rue St. Honoré, 2000 lt due him per arrests involving Philbert Gautier, procureur in cour, Charles de Chevry de Neuvry (+ Elisabeth Gautier)...

XCIX, 247, vente de bois, 1 May 1671, Mlle de Guise for bois de Clary in baronnie of Roquemaure in Languedoc... for 10,000 lt to François Prieve.

XCIX, 247, Proc, 1 May 1671, Mlle de Guise to Zacarie Borthon, receveur général des fermes du Languedoc, to take care of her affaires in duché of Joyeuse.

XCIX, 247, transport, 30 June 1671, Mlle de Guise and Claude de Dessuslemoustier, bourgeois de Paris of paroisse St. Nicolas des Champs, on her domaines in Caen, Bayeux and Falaise....

XCIX, 247, ratification, 30 June 1671, Mlle de Guise and Philbert Merindol, from the environs of Lambesc, where her procureur général is Isaac Borthon.

XCIX, 247, procuration, 26 June 1671, Mlle de Guise to M. Guyot, procureur fiscal of baronnie of Ancerville.

XCIX, 247, compromis, 23 June 1671, Mlle de Guise and some people involved in the vicomté de Bayeux: Louis de Chemond Amboise, marquis de Revel, Marie Angelique de Cousin, his wife, and Marie Francoise de Cousin, heirs of Philippe de Cousin, ... involving Henry de Lorraine and them.

XCIX, 247, traité d'office, 21 June 1671, Nicolas Lefebvre de Lezeau [who is, I believe, related to the Alessos, relatives of the Versoris], con^er du roi, Jean Rouillé, con^er du roi. Nicolas Jassaud, Martin de Bernaud, Philippe Genoud, Etienne Mandat, Christophle Roquette, Pierre Bernay ... all creanciers of Nicolas Fouquet ... re the charge of huissier in the cour du Parlement. It's horribly written!

XCIX, 247, decharge de titre, for Mme de Neufville: François de Forbin... has rec'd from Mlle de Guise 33,000 lt from an obligation with Charles de Lorraine and his father in 1629 ... which also involved the Neufvilles de la Grange..... An itemization of all the titre involved.

30 July 1671: Death of Louis-Joseph de Lorraine, Duke of Guise

XCIX, 248, procuration, 5 September 1671, Mlle de Guise, to noble homme François Quentin, avocat in Parlement, for the power to appear before M. Chamillard, intendant de justice, police et finances in the generalité of Caen.... on the various affairs of Caen, Falaise, and Bayeux.

XCIX, 248, transaction, 15 July 1671, Mlle de Guise and Antoine Le Febvre, con^er du roy et grenetier au grener à sel de Guise, y demeurant....per an agreement with late dowager of Guise [Catherine-Henriette de Joyeuse, Mlle de Guise’s mother] ... an arguement about his salaries, her due, etc.

XCIX, 248, ratification, 14 July 1671, Mlle de Guise and Jacques Jacquin and Jean Leyris: involves Roquemaure in Languedoc. Leyris was receveur of peages on the Rhone at Roquemaure.

XCIX, 248, quittance, 8 July, Mlle de Guise to a gantier, a lingere, heirs of René Buisson, m^e brodeur à Paris, 27,943 lt ... which late Duke Henry owed their father.

XCIX, 248, rachapt, 9 July 1671, Pierre Bercher, bourgeois de Paris, to Mlle de Guise, 24,748 lt, 15 sols, created in 1665.

XCIX, 248, rachapt, 8 July 1671, to Robert Germaignat, bourgeois de Paris, for 20,000, on rente created in 1666.

XCIX, 248 , quittance, 8 July 1671, to Pierre Gallois, bourgeois de Paris, for Marie Gene, wife of Nicolas Prevost, and Adrien de Talleville, son of late Nicolas and Claude Gense, and Marie Balard, wife of Gabriel Gence... etc... ....

XCIX, 248 , rachapt, 8 July 1671, Philippe Guitteau, sieur du Bois, rue du Chaume, 21,000 lt created in 1665. [Per the signature, it's really GOIBAUT: see XCIX, 248, quittance, 8 July 1671.]

XCIX, 248, quittance, 8 July 1671, Philippes "Guilteau" ecuyer, sieur du Bois, [it is signed by Philippe Goibault], demeurant rue du Chaume, paroisse St. Jean en Greve, lequel a confessé avoir receu de ..Mlle de Guise ... before the notaries, 28,422 lt, 1 S, contenu en l'obligation de sadite Altesse faicte au proffict dud.Sieur Du Bois passé pardevant Bouret.... 31 Aug. 1670, laquelle somme fut employée au payement de pareille somme que sadite Altesse debvoit aux sieurs Berne, scavoir 21,654 lt, 11 S à quoy par transacton passé pardevant Boutaart, notaire royal à Aix 17 Sept 1665, s'est trouvé monter ce qui estoit deub par les successions de deffunct ...Henry de Guise...Charles de Lorraine son pere...to the sieurs de Berne....tant de reste de la somme de 13,000 de principal contenu en l'obligation qui a esté faicte par ledit feu seigneur Duc de Guise to Louis Guerard, before Baudoyn at Marseille, 21 Dec. 1629, for 6,767 lt ... etc.; and the quittance for payment before Bouret, 31 Aug 1670.... and Du Bois s'est contenté. She got the cash from Louis François Servient, chevalier, marquis de Sablé, and Augustin Servient, abbé de Saint Jouin, children of the late Abel Servien, surintendant des finances ... and 4,000 lt from the chapter of Rheims (connected to her rente with them), see Bouret and De Beauvais, of 8 July 1671, and Dubois has "mis et subrogé the men of the Chapitre of Reims..... with no guarantee that he will be repaid...and Dubois has given Mlle de Guise a copy of the obligation....

XCIX, 249, procuration, 6 July 1671, Mlle de Guise to Jacques de Forget, l'un de ses gentilshommes ordinaires, to try to get back what he can of the 2433 lt owed by Charles du Touchet and Anne Turgot, his wife, that the couple were ordered to pay her.

XCIX, 249, 4 July 1671, transaction, Mlle de Guise, assistée de noble homme Pierre Deschiens, con^er du roy and avocat in bureau des finances of Amiens, Jean Lefebvre, s^r de Bournay, and Pierre Colbert, controlleur général des postes de France, re the bail general on the lands she holds in Champagne... and domaine of Joinville, where there were some repairs required in mills, ecluses, etc... and S^r de La Cour was in charge.... including the chateau du Grand Jardin [at Joinville] . Attached is an extrait des deliberations du conseil of Louis Joseph de Guise... Monday ,30 June 1671.... Le Brun [the Guise treasurer] is giving the opinion, and the act is signed by Gourdon ... and Marie de Lorraine, Deschiens, Mouret, Lefebvre.. and Colbert...

XCIX, 249, obligation, 30 November 1671, Mlle de Guise to Antoine Le Poupet, s^r de St. Aubin, con^er , secretaire du Roy, rue de la Calandre, 6000 lt loan by the creanciers of Mlle de Guise to use for his affaires.

XCIX, 249, mainlevée, 20 November 1671, Mlle de Guise to Messire François de Bourdeille comte de Montresor, gouverneur et lieutenant general in Perigord, "au nom et comme seul heritier par benefice d'inventaire de deffunt haut et puissant seigneur Messire Claude de Bourdeille, son frere, chevalier, comte de Montresor [Mlle de Guise’s secret husband] et de la saisie reelle fait à la requeste de sadite Altesse sur ledit seigneur Marquis de Bourdeilles des terres et seigneuries de Montresor, la Hurtiere, Biard. She agrees that the "saisie reelle soit et demeure nulle comme non faicte ny advenue...." And, the same day, there is a "transaction et vente" from Mlle de Guise to François de Bourdeille ... They were in a lawsuit at the requetes de l'hostel for 163,553 lt, 19 S, 5 d tournois..."dont sadite Altesse poursuivoit le payement sur la succession dudit deffunct S^r Comte de Montresor... scavoir, 114,200 lt of principal in an obligation of Montresor’s to François Le Cocq, sec du Roy, before Bruneat et Nouvet [?? lots of humps and hollows after No and before et] , 27 Feb. 1657, transporté to Mlle de G. by Lecoc before Henault and Manchon, 8 March 1657; 15,728 lt, 18 S, 3 d for interest on that sum .... And stated by her at the time of his scellé, (7 July 1663, seems to be the date....); and to pay the amount he sells and cedes to her the comté, etc, of Montresor ... and all the lands, fields, gardens, etc ... (virtually everything he owns there, it seems to me) ... and even the rights to the collegiale of Montresor and the benefices there (which includes 6 chanoines, the doyen, chantre and sacristin, plus 4 semi-prebandiers, 2 enfans de choeur; and also the chapel of N.D. de Lorette...... and also a chapel de Preaux in the church of N.D. de Loches... all of which Bourdeilles has to pay to keep up the buildings. ... This will be for 4 years.... and if he can't pay, she becomes owner because he failed to exercise his right to remerer.

XCIX, 249, declaration, 8 November 1671: Jacques François de Lumis, avocat in Parlement, declares "qu'il ne pretend auculne chose en la vente" made to him by Hugues Cousin and Nicolas de Villiers.... for wood.... because the wood belonged to Mlle de Guise and was worth 35,200 lt.

XCIX, 249, procuration, 24 December 1671, Mlle de Guise in another of those Duke Henry "swamps" in which there seems to be no bottom!

XCIX, 249, transaction, 24 December 1671, Isabelle d'Orleans [Louis Joseph’s young widow], Mlle de Guise (tutrice for Alençon) and J.B. Colbert, tuteur honoraire of Alençon), and Jean de Joncour, avocat in Parlement, tuteur also.... plus Hugues Cousin, sieur de Senneville .... who state that on 27 Oct. 1661 there was a devis about making the Oise navigable and flottable from Nouvion to Pont l'Evesque et passage de Sompigny, and the 2 Nov., an act before Le Tellier at Fontainebleau signed by Henri de Lorraine re wood in duchy of Guise, ... discussion over the cost of the venture and about Cousin's claims to reimbursement.

XCIX, 249, quittance, 8 December 1671, Mlle de Guise and François Raveneau, bourgeois de Paris, for the domaine of Caen, Bayeux and Fallaise, who pays her part of the 5,512 lt due her.

XCIX. 249, convention, 8 December 1671, Mlle de Guise and Raveneau, re Caen, Bayeux, and Falaise, "tant pour luy que pour ses associés au revenu des domaines de Caen,..." etc, for the next 15 months.