SERVIEN Abel (1593-1659) diplomate et ministre. L.A.S. "Servien", Münster, December 5, 1645, to Monsignor [Cardinal MAZARIN]; 1 page in folio, address with remnants of red wax seal. Beautiful Protestant letter of his devotion to Mazarin while negotiating the Treaty of Westphalia. "It would be very difficult for me to find words to express to Your Eminence my feelings about the obliging testimonies of benevolence and goodness which he likes to continually honor, ny of the passion that I have to make worthy by a faithful obeyance to all his commands. I will content myself with satisfying Your Eminence that she never scauros to have a creature more attached to all her interests or more dependent on all her wishes. As the honor of her good graces is one, although I wish in whatever condition I find myself, I will live very happy, provided that I am favored and that VE is only pleased to consider me as the man of France who is the most passionate and most truly Monseigneur de VE, the very humble, very obedient and very obliging servant....