Monday, May 25, 2020

Excerpt from an anonymously written letter to Antoine de Bordeaux, the French ambassador to England, on Kristina's travel progress, dated July 27/August 6 (New Style), 1656

Sources:

A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq;, volume 5, page 251, published by Thomas Birch, 1742


https://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol5/pp243-258#h3-0015

The letter:

Paris, 6. Aug. 1656. [N. S.]
The queen of Sweden passeth through Germany, and so doth not come into France. ...

With modernised spelling:

Paris, 6 August 1656. [N. S.]
... The Queen of Sweden passeth through Germany, and so doth not come into France. ...

French translation (my own):

Paris, le 6 août 1656. [Nouveau style.]
... La reine de Suède passe par l'Allemagne et n'entre donc pas en France. ...

Swedish translation (my own):

Paris, den 6 augusti 1656. [Nya stilen.]
... Drottningen av Sverige reser genom Tyskland och kommer inte in i Frankrike. ...


Above: Kristina.

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