Les Petites Bêtes Soyeuses

Aide sought by Brigadier-General. Apply RFG HQ.
† BRJS

Lt General's Aide sought for the upcoming campaign.
Bullet Dodgers need not apply.
Siege Operations Experience preferred but not mandatory.
Shovels Supplied.
Apply immediately.
† Lt Gen Turenne

Officers and Men sought for France's Finest Regiment. Financial assistance available for the deserving.
† BRJS

To LSD and AlCh
Gentlemen,
I hope it is not too much of an imposition for me to ask you to be my seconds.
† BLC

Dear Captain Yve Stanbul,
I heard of your confrontation with Lt.Colonel Chevalier-Cavalier. I hope your cuts were only superficial and that you will recuperate soon. You should not be engaging with these boorish brutes from the Dragoon Guards alone. I offer you my rapier and to act as your second. I would prefer you to survive long enough to serve as my aide against the Spanish this summer.
    Regards, † Lieutenant-General Louis Renault

Gentlemen of Paris,
During week one, Miss Nifisent and I will attend mass to commemorate the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas of Myra. We cordially invite you to join us in our devotions to this beloved patron saint of children. After the service, we will have a small gathering at my club, where we will serve a delectable array of traditional dishes and drinks to celebrate this occasion. We would be honoured if you and your ladies would join us as our guests.
Unfortunately, this invitation does not include members of the Dragoon Guards, who insist on trying to put holes in my aide, Captain Stanbul.
    Regards,
† Baron Louis Renault

Primus: You know this treason thingy?
Secundus: Yes.
Primus: Have you noticed how the CPS - supposedly a force for justice - accuses upright citizens?
Secundus: Yes.

Jean D'Aubergine had perched at the doorstep of the lady Freda de Ath for over an hour, his face obscured by a towering bouquet, two boxes of finery, and a silver statuette of a deer with an only slightly misshapen front left hoof. He had only glimpsed the lady from a distance earlier that week but had appraised her sturdy and slow enough in step that he might keep up with her, should they ever be seen in public strolling together. These, he had concluded, were sufficient qualities of character to wager the investment into the armloads of gifts he had hauled to her door, through the otherwise silent streets, that early October morning.
That de Ath had proved receptive was a profound astonishment for the slow-witted Breton, but more so her refusal to accept his overflowing heap of offerings. That the lady came from a family far better equipped with land and larder than that of even his own father had not occurred to the bastard lad when he sought Freda's ardour, and now he found himself quite surprisingly in the company of a woman who was not only smarter, for this was indeed quite usual, but far wealthier than he. "Wherever shall I sell this benighted silver deer" he mused to himself, as he shuffled along after Freda on their way to the Frog and Peach. "And who in the devil would purchase second-hand flowers?"

Dear Claude de Nord,
Please let me know if you wish me to find a cure for the treasonous Chevalier-Cavalier, as suggested by Dr. Antoine Faquin.
    Yours,
† Justin Thyme

Lord Percy Percy says, as fashion tends towards the uniformed, Thomas de la Lune is particularly fashionable.

Note attached to a parcel delivered to His Majesty:
"This is the first sabre I purchased when I joined your armed forces many years ago. It is the same sabre that I have used in every campaign I have been on in your name.
"Both times I was prevented from going on campaign as your Field Marshal it has stood at my side hilted when it wished to sing.
"It has never been used without your order or in your name.
"It has and always will belong to you.
    Yours faithfully,
† Pierre Cardigan"