[Commission de louveterie] [Wolf hunting / François de Franc - Lot 208

[Commission de louveterie] [Wolf hunting / François de France]. Commission issued by François de France, duc d'Alençon, to François Malard, écuyer, to hunt wolves and cubs in the duchy of Alençon and the county of Perche, with "force chiens, harnois, filletz à cor et autres engins", which wolves "often devour several human creatures, eat several oxen, cows, sheep...", done at Argentan on June 16, 1570 : parchment 21x29 cm, right edge cut with text gaps, autograph signature of François de France. Document under glass decorated at the top with 2 engravings of François de France, an analysis of the document and a token from 1573. Interesting document on the presence of the anthropophagous wolves that swarmed France at the end of the 16th century. François de France (March 18, 1555 - June 10, 1584) was the last son of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis. Titled Duke of Alençon, Anjou, Touraine, Brabant and Château-Thierry, he is also known as François d'Alençon or François d'Anjou. He played an important political role in France in the 1570s, leading the Malcontent party. He stirred up trouble at his brother Henri III's court, and took part in the sixth and seventh Wars of Religion. He was promised to Queen Elizabeth I of England, but the marriage fell through. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 29. His premature death had one major consequence: as King Henri III had no children, Henri de Navarre, leader of the Protestant party, became heir to the French crown.