France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800

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Contre les Assemblees secrettes, tenues en plusieurs Conuents de Paris, és moys de Ianuier, Feurier & Mars, l'an du Iubilé 1620. pour aduiser aux moyens d'extirper les Heretiques de France, san endommager les Catholiques. Eight arguments designed to extirpate the Huguenot sect in France. The author cites the establishment of conventicles in Paris and their pernicious influence on the people. Alternate title: Raisons Desduites Par un Des Premiers Magistrats de Paris. Signatures: A-B⁴ (last leaf blank). Woodcut head-piece.
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Account of Epernon's role in Marie de Medici's escape from Blois. Alternate title: Sommation faicte a Monsieur le Duc d'Espernon : en suitte de la declaration du Roy. Signatures: A-B⁴ (final leaf blank). Woodcut head-piece; decorative initial. This pamphlet exists in two states. Imprint in both states is the same except in state 1 "Imprimée" is capitalized, in state 2 it is not. Layout of the text is similar, but the states do differ (e.g. on page 9, last paragraph, state 1 has "Prouençal", state 2 has "Prouencal" without the cedilla. Beginning with page 5 the pages begin and end with the same words, but the first two pages of text (page 3-4) have different layout. In state 1 the line "ceux de la possession sans contenteme[n] is the last line of page 3; in state 2 it is the first line of page 4. Type ornaments and initial on page 3 also differ between the states.
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Paris : Abraham Savgrain, MDCXXII [1622]
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Account of outcome of Siege of Julliers, January 1622. Dutch must give up fortresses in French Netherlands. Alternate title: Reduction de la Ville de Ivlliers. Signatures: A-B⁴ (final leaf blank). Title vignette; woodcut head-piece; decorative initial.
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A political tract lamenting the decline of the national French spirit. Alternate title: Diogène Français; Diogène fançois. Caption title. Probably printed in 1615, cf.: BVB - BibliotheksVerbund Bayern FAST-Zugang. Signatures: A-B⁴ C². Bibliothèque nationale de France online catalogue appears to list 3 different pamphlets with title Le Diogène français or Le Diogène françois. Le Diogène français, with no subtitle, is assigned to the reign of Louis XIII but lacks imprint or exact date. The second has the full title and imprint: Le Diogene françois, ou les facétieux discours du vray Anti-dotour comique blaisois. Jouxte la coppie imprimé a Limoge, Guillaume Bureau,1617. The third was printed in 1652 with the title: Le Diogène français, ou l'homme d'état à la France soupirante; NUC indicates that this was first published in 1615 under the shorter title. References in the text appear to belong to the period around 1615.
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Paris : Par Fed. Morel, & P. Mettayer, Imprimeurs ordinaires du Roy, MDCXVII
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Alternate title: Declaration du roy sur le subject des nouveaux remuements de son Royaume." Faict à Paris le xviii Feurier 1617, Signé, Lovis, et plus bas, de Richeliev"--Page 36. Signatures: A-E⁴ (last two leaves blank). Royal arms on title page.Head-piece, decorative initial.
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