ABSTRACT
Very little is known about Charles the Prince of Wales' visit to Paris in the spring of 1623. The prince appears to have travelled incognito from Boulogne to Paris in the company of the Duke of Buckingham and three other companions. The earliest one to mention Charles' visit to Paris appears to be a letter dated from 12 March, written by Giovanni Pesaro, the Venetian ambassador in Paris, to the Doge and Senate. Only Brienne, whose Memoires were written well after the negotiations for the Spanish match had fallen through and Charles had ended up marrying Louis' sister, retrospectively gave a new importance to the prince's brief stay in Paris. The stance adopted by Brienne and Herbert is explained by the indirect and propagandistic nature of the kind of information available to their contemporaries.
