1 | Pre-philately

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1638. (July 18). From the "French camp on the site of FUENTERRABIA" to GAND (letter from the Count of Gramont, later Duke and Marshal of France, to the Juries and Council of the Ville de Bagneres). The siege of Fuenterrabía ended with the French defeat attributed to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the people made a vow to celebrate the victory in her honor every year (known as the Alarde every September 8, a tradition that today, four centuries later, is still followed maintaining). MAGNIFICENT AND LETTER OF ENORMOUS HISTORICAL INTEREST, PROBABLY THE ONLY KNOWN LETTER FROM THIS PERIOD AND THE OLDEST REVIEWED OF A FRENCH MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SPAIN.