SAUVE CHARLOTTE DE: (1551-1617) French noblewoman, the mistress of King Henry of Navarre (later King Henry IV of France). Charlotte de Sauve was an accomplished member of Catherine de' Medici's L'escadron volant, the group of beautiful female spies recruited to seduce important men at Court. D.S., Charlotte de Beaune, one page, oblong 8vo, Paris, 18^th July 1598, in Middle French. The manuscript notarial document attests that Charlotte de Beaune, Marquise de Noirmoutier, residing at Rue des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache, 'a confesse av^r nome. constitue et ordonne en presen……Prcreur en charge pour servir et desfendre Alencontre de La V^ve m^e Jehan Racyne' (Translation: 'confessed to having appointed, constituted and ordered in the presence….[of the]…prosecutor in charge to serve and defend against the widow Jehan Racyne', further referring to their property and children. Countersigned at the foot by two notaries. Some very light, minor overall foxing and two very small tears, one just touching one letter of Sauve's signature, and with some extremely minor traces of former mounting to the verso. About VG