SIÈGE DE DIJON DE 1513

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SIÈGE DE DIJON DE 1513
SIEGE OF DIJON OF 1513. Letter signed "Franceois Fiot" ? addressed "au Roy" [Louis XII]. "At Dyjon this viii of July" [1513]. 1 p. folio. Fading at the bottom of the document. Address on the back. Rare letter from Dijon threatened by an imperial army composed of Swiss, Germans and Francs-Comtois, and which will be besieged from 8 to 13 September 1513; the siege will be lifted after the signing of the treaty of Dijon ending the attempt to conquer the duchy of Burgundy. "Sire to inform you []. We are very threatened by the Angloys and Souysses. The Souysses are only waiting for the arrival of the Angloys because they are all ready to leave and the King of England has sent them one of his kind men []. Sire, the rumor is going around in this country of Burgundy that the King has sent the General of Normandy on an embassy to the King of England and the King of England has given him safe conduct and has gone to England to negotiate some payments []. Sire Monsieur de Bourbon [the Constable of Bourbon] is in this country of Bourgoigne with ten thousand lancequenets and sixteen hundred men in arms and if the affair comes to pass will raise six thousand French troops []. Sire, I assure you that there is no nice man in the world who has more heart to do you some good service than I do []. The English were then fighting in the North of France against Louis XII, and were asked by the Swiss to join them and attack France. But on the one hand the French were heavily defeated at Guinegatte near St. Omer (August 16) by the English, and Henry VIII's campaign was interrupted by rumors of Scottish preparations for an invasion of England to rescue France. He therefore renounces joining the Swiss in this context. The Swiss would attack Dijon without the English, but with the assurance that the French, defeated and weakened, would not be able to put up much resistance (Bayard and others were captured). History has forgotten this appeal by the Swiss to the English, which was not acted upon.] This letter is therefore a precious testimony of this episode.
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