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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The True History of The State Prisoner, commonly called The Iron Mask - Extracted from Documents in the French Archives - -Author: George Agar Ellis - -Release Date: March 27, 2013 [EBook #42419] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE HISTORY *** - - - - -Produced by StevenGibbs, Christoph W. Kluge, Charlene -Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned -images of public domain material from the Google Print -project.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42419 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p class="noindent"><span class="bold">Transcriber’s Note:</span></p> @@ -1388,13 +1347,13 @@ G. A. E.</p> <div class="toc-entry"> <p class="toc-chap"><a class="toc" href="#appendix_128">No. 128.</a></p> <p class="toc-abstract">Extract from the Register of the Bastille, published in - the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée”<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_342">342</a></div> + the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée”<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_342">342</a></div> </div> <div> <div class="toc-entry"> <p class="toc-chap"><a class="toc" href="#appendix_129">No. 129.</a></p> <p class="toc-abstract">Second Extract from the Register of the Bastille, published - in the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée”<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_343">343</a></div> + in the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée”<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_343">343</a></div> </div> <div> <div class="toc-entry"> @@ -1406,20 +1365,20 @@ G. A. E.</p> <div class="toc-entry"> <p class="toc-chap"><a class="toc" href="#appendix_131">No. 131.</a></p> <p class="toc-abstract">Extract from the Work entitled “La Correspondance - Interceptée,” by M. Lewis Dutens, published in 1789<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_346">346</a></div> + Interceptée,” by M. Lewis Dutens, published in 1789<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_346">346</a></div> </div> <div> <div class="toc-entry"> <p class="toc-chap"><a class="toc" href="#appendix_132">No. 132.</a></p> <p class="toc-abstract">Extract from the article on the Iron Mask in the Work - entitled “<i>Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature</i>;” by + entitled “<i>Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature</i>;” by Mr. Quintin Craufurd<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_347">347</a></div> </div> <div> <div class="toc-entry"> <p class="toc-chap"><a class="toc" href="#appendix_133">No. 133.</a></p> <p class="toc-abstract">Letter from the Baron de Heiss to the Authors of the - “<i>Journal Encyclopédique</i>” on the subject of the Iron + “<i>Journal Encyclopédique</i>” on the subject of the Iron Mask; published in that Journal in 1770<span class="ereader-only">.</span></p></div><div class="toc-page"><a class="toc" href="#Page_348">348</a></div> <div> <div class="toc-entry"> @@ -1500,7 +1459,7 @@ clearly not in that office when he first, unhappily for himself, was involved in diplomatic relations with the agents of the French Government.</p> -<p>Towards the end of the year 1677, the Abbé +<p>Towards the end of the year 1677, the Abbé d’Estrades,<a name="FNanchor_4" id="FNanchor_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4" class="footnote-anchor">4</a> ambassador from France to the Republic of Venice, conceived the idea, which he was well aware would be highly acceptable to the insatiable @@ -1658,7 +1617,7 @@ which all the world, even the Doge and the<a class="page" name="Page_14" id="Pag oldest Senators were accustomed to go about in mask.”<a name="FNanchor_20" id="FNanchor_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20" class="footnote-anchor">20</a></p> -<p>He also requested that the Cardinal d’Estrées<a name="FNanchor_21" id="FNanchor_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21" class="footnote-anchor">21</a> +<p>He also requested that the Cardinal d’Estrées<a name="FNanchor_21" id="FNanchor_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21" class="footnote-anchor">21</a> might not be made a party to the negociation; because he was so well known to be employed generally by Lewis to negociate with the Italian Sovereigns, @@ -1810,7 +1769,7 @@ partizans, by whom he was surrounded.<a name="FNanchor_34" id="FNanchor_34"></a> <p>Finally, after many delays, Matthioli, accompanied by Giuliani, set off for Paris in the beginning of November, 1678, and arrived there towards the -end of the same month.<a name="FNanchor_35" id="FNanchor_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35" class="footnote-anchor">35</a> He found the Abbé +end of the same month.<a name="FNanchor_35" id="FNanchor_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35" class="footnote-anchor">35</a> He found the Abbé d’Estrades, who had quitted his Venetian Em<a class="page" name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a>bassy, arrived there before him, and had several interviews with him and M. de Pomponne; during @@ -1852,7 +1811,7 @@ in furtherance of their plan.<a name="FNanchor_41" id="FNanchor_41"></a><a href= de Boufflers,<a name="FNanchor_42" id="FNanchor_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42" class="footnote-anchor">42</a> Colonel-General of the Dragoons, was sent to take the command of the forces, which were assembling near the frontier of Italy, -at Briançon, in Dauphiny. Catinat,<a name="FNanchor_43" id="FNanchor_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43" class="footnote-anchor">43</a> Brigadier +at Briançon, in Dauphiny. Catinat,<a name="FNanchor_43" id="FNanchor_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43" class="footnote-anchor">43</a> Brigadier of Infantry, afterwards the celebrated Marshal of that name, who was to serve under the command of Boufflers, had orders to conceal himself in the @@ -1861,7 +1820,7 @@ that of Richemont;<a name="FNanchor_45" id="FNanchor_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_ Colonel of Dragoons, was despatched to Venice, upon a mission for exchanging the ratifications of the treaty; for which purpose he was to unite with -M. de Pinchesne, the Chargé d’Affaires there, during +M. de Pinchesne, the Chargé d’Affaires there, during the absence of an ambassador.<a name="FNanchor_47" id="FNanchor_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47" class="footnote-anchor">47</a><a class="page" name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></p> <p>Though these measures were taken with the @@ -1903,7 +1862,7 @@ promised to hold a carrousel there.<a name="FNanchor_53" id="FNanchor_53"></a><a <p>In spite of all these difficulties, it was, however, finally arranged, that the Baron d’Asfeld and Matthioli should meet, on the 9th of March, at -Incréa, a village ten miles from Casale, in order to +Incréa, a village ten miles from Casale, in order to make the exchange of the ratifications; that the Duke of Mantua himself, should go to Casale on the 15th of the same month; and should put the @@ -1977,7 +1936,7 @@ money for his information.<a name="FNanchor_61" id="FNanchor_61"></a><a href="#F <p>Meanwhile Asfeld was arrested by the orders of the Count de Melgar, the Spanish Governor of the Milanese, as he was on his way to the rendez<a class="page" name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a>vous -at Incréa; and Matthioli was the first person +at Incréa; and Matthioli was the first person who acquainted the French agents with this misfortune,<a name="FNanchor_62" id="FNanchor_62"></a><a href="#Footnote_62" class="footnote-anchor">62</a> as well as with the fact that the Duke of Mantua had been obliged to conclude a treaty @@ -1999,12 +1958,12 @@ to Matthioli in a letter<a name="FNanchor_65" id="FNanchor_65"></a><a href="#Foo the date of March 14th, 1679.</p> <p>Catinat accordingly went, on the appointed day,<a class="page" name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a> -from Pignerol to Incréa, accompanied by St. Mara,<a name="FNanchor_66" id="FNanchor_66"></a><a href="#Footnote_66" class="footnote-anchor">66</a> +from Pignerol to Incréa, accompanied by St. Mara,<a name="FNanchor_66" id="FNanchor_66"></a><a href="#Footnote_66" class="footnote-anchor">66</a> the Commandant of that part of the fortress of Pignerol, which was appropriated for a state prison, and by a person of confidence, belonging to the embassy of Estrades. But the appointed day passed -over, without bringing Matthioli to Incréa; and +over, without bringing Matthioli to Incréa; and the next morning Catinat was informed that his arrival there was discovered; that the peasants of the neighbourhood were in arms; and that a detachment @@ -2022,7 +1981,7 @@ enthusiasm.<a name="FNanchor_67" id="FNanchor_67"></a><a href="#Footnote_67" cla to return undiscovered to Pignerol.</p> <p>Matthioli, meanwhile, instead of keeping his engagement -at Incréa, had returned to Venice, and +at Incréa, had returned to Venice, and had had several interviews with Pinchesne, the particulars of which we are unacquainted with, as the letters containing the accounts of them, @@ -2049,7 +2008,7 @@ ambition, by taking the most signal vengeance of Matthioli; as we find by the following note from Louvois to his creature, St. Mars, dated, St. Germain, April 27th, 1679.—“The King has sent -orders to the Abbé d’Estrades, to try and arrest +orders to the Abbé d’Estrades, to try and arrest a man, with whose conduct his Majesty has reason to be dissatisfied; of which he has commanded me to acquaint you, in order that you may not @@ -2089,7 +2048,7 @@ neighbourhood where his troops were stationed.</p> <p>To this proposition Matthioli readily consented; and having first made a journey to Casale, he returned and met Estrades (who was accompanied -on this expedition by his relation the Abbé +on this expedition by his relation the Abbé de Montesquiou) by appointment, in a church half a mile from Turin, from whence they proceeded together to the frontier. At three miles @@ -2424,8 +2383,8 @@ Lewis, who was anxious to recompense his services as a gaoler of State prisoners, then gave him the government of Exiles,<a name="FNanchor_105" id="FNanchor_105"></a><a href="#Footnote_105" class="footnote-anchor">105</a> a strong fortress and pass near Susa, on the frontier of Piedmont and the -Briançonnois, which was vacant by the death of the -Duke de Lesdiguières; at the same time augmenting +Briançonnois, which was vacant by the death of the +Duke de Lesdiguières; at the same time augmenting the salary attached to that situation, so as to make it equal to that of the towns in Flanders.<a name="FNanchor_106" id="FNanchor_106"></a><a href="#Footnote_106" class="footnote-anchor">106</a> Louvois, in a letter dated May 12th, 1681, ac<a class="page" name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a>quaints @@ -2838,7 +2797,7 @@ mentioned; who is always kept masked, and who was first placed, till night, in the tower of the Basiniere,<a name="FNanchor_143a" id="FNanchor_143a"></a><a href="#Footnote_143" class="footnote-anchor">143</a> and whom I conducted afterwards myself, at nine o’clock at night, to the third -chamber of the tower of the Bertaudière;<a name="FNanchor_143b" id="FNanchor_143b"></a><a href="#Footnote_143" class="footnote-anchor">143</a> which +chamber of the tower of the Bertaudière;<a name="FNanchor_143b" id="FNanchor_143b"></a><a href="#Footnote_143" class="footnote-anchor">143</a> which chamber I had taken care to furnish with all things necessary before his arrival, having received orders to that effect from M. de St. Mars. @@ -2851,7 +2810,7 @@ Governor.”<a name="FNanchor_145" id="FNanchor_145"></a><a href="#Footnote_ <p>Dujonca’s account is confirmed by the extracts of the Register of the Bastille, published in the -work entitled “La Bastille dévoilée.”<a name="FNanchor_146" id="FNanchor_146"></a><a href="#Footnote_146" class="footnote-anchor">146</a></p> +work entitled “La Bastille dévoilée.”<a name="FNanchor_146" id="FNanchor_146"></a><a href="#Footnote_146" class="footnote-anchor">146</a></p> <p>The placing of the prisoner, on his first arrival, temporarily in one part of the Bastille, and afterwards @@ -2999,8 +2958,8 @@ or an elder or a twin-brother of Lewis the Fourteenth; or a son of Oliver Cromwell; or Arwediks, the Armenian Patriarch; are referred to Voltaire, Dutens, St. Foix, La Grange Chancel, -Gibbon, the Père Papon, the Père Griffet, the -Chevalier de Taulés, and Mr. Quintin Craufurd. +Gibbon, the Père Papon, the Père Griffet, the +Chevalier de Taulés, and Mr. Quintin Craufurd. Of these accounts, perhaps Voltaire’s is the least curious, find Mr. Craufurd’s the most so; because the first did not seek for truth, but only wished @@ -3032,7 +2991,7 @@ acknowledgment of the plagiarism.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_4" id="Footnote_4"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_4">4</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">The Abbé d’Estrades, Ambassador for a considerable +<span class="footnote-text">The Abbé d’Estrades, Ambassador for a considerable time from Lewis the Fourteenth, to the Republic of Venice, was son of Godfrey, Count d’Estrades, so long employed in negociations and embassies in Holland, and who was one @@ -3154,7 +3113,7 @@ the appointment of the Duke of Mantua.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_21" id="Footnote_21"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_21">21</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">Cæsar Bishop of Laon and Cardinal d’Estrées, son +<span class="footnote-text">Cæsar Bishop of Laon and Cardinal d’Estrées, son of the first Marshal of France of that name, was employed in various negociations with the Princes of Italy; but is now more remembered for his courtier-like reply to @@ -3185,7 +3144,7 @@ for Foreign Affairs from 1671 to 1679, when he was dismissed from his office, but retained the title of Minister of State, with permission to attend the Council. A man, like so many of his race, who united considerable talents to -great excellence of character. Madame de Sévigné says, +great excellence of character. Madame de Sévigné says, in speaking of the eminent station he had filled, that “Fortune had wished to make use of his virtues for the happiness of others.”</span></div> @@ -3317,7 +3276,7 @@ real sage, (having refused the blue ribbon) in 1712.”</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_44" id="Footnote_44"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_44">44</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">Upon reference to the Mémoires de Catinat, published +<span class="footnote-text">Upon reference to the Mémoires de Catinat, published in 1819, this event is found to be thus adverted to:—“In 1679, Catinat was charged with some negociations with the Duke of Mantua; but the affair failed of success, in consequence @@ -3522,7 +3481,7 @@ appointed to inquire into his conduct, to banishment. The sentence was commuted by the King himself to perpetual imprisonment; and Fouquet died in the citadel of Pignerol, in 1680. On his trial he defended himself -with great spirit and talent. See Madame de Sévigné’s +with great spirit and talent. See Madame de Sévigné’s interesting Letters to M. de Pomponne upon the subject.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_84" id="Footnote_84"></a> @@ -3530,8 +3489,8 @@ interesting Letters to M. de Pomponne upon the subject.</span></div> <span class="footnote-text">Anthony Nompar de Caumont, Marquis of Peguilhem, and afterwards Duke of Lauzun: whose adventures and eccentricities are too well known to require relation here. -It is in speaking of him that La Bruyère says, “Il n’est -pas permis aux autres hommes de rêver, comme il a vécu.”</span></div> +It is in speaking of him that La Bruyère says, “Il n’est +pas permis aux autres hommes de rêver, comme il a vécu.”</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_85" id="Footnote_85"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_85">85</a></span> @@ -3757,16 +3716,16 @@ upon “L’Homme au Masque de fer.”</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_132" id="Footnote_132"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_132">132</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">Papon in his “Histoire générale de Provence” informs +<span class="footnote-text">Papon in his “Histoire générale de Provence” informs us that he went to see the room.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_133" id="Footnote_133"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_133">133</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">“Histoire générale de Provence, du Père Papon.”</span></div> +<span class="footnote-text">“Histoire générale de Provence, du Père Papon.”</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_134" id="Footnote_134"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_134">134</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">See “Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature,” by Mr. +<span class="footnote-text">See “Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature,” by Mr. Quintin Craufurd.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_135" id="Footnote_135"></a> @@ -3803,8 +3762,8 @@ it is, for the most part, under these circumstances.</span></div> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_140">140</a></span> <span class="footnote-text">Such is the account given by M. de Palteau, the direct descendant of St. Mars, in a letter to Freron, dated Palteau, -June 19th, 1768. It was published in the “Année -Littéraire” for that year, and has since been republished +June 19th, 1768. It was published in the “Année +Littéraire” for that year, and has since been republished by Mr. Craufurd, in his paper on the Iron Mask.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_141" id="Footnote_141"></a> @@ -3884,7 +3843,7 @@ snuff-boxes were made, bearing the head of Sully on one side, and that of the Duke de Choiseul on the other. One of them being shown to <i>Sophie Arnoud</i>, the actress, celebrated for her repartees, she looked at the two sides, and -said, “<i>C’est la recette—et la dépense</i>.”</span></div> +said, “<i>C’est la recette—et la dépense</i>.”</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_154" id="Footnote_154"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_154">154</a></span> @@ -3893,15 +3852,15 @@ overlooked; as, it will be remembered, that at the time it was made, the minister of the Duke of Mantua had not been mentioned by any one as the Iron Mask. He was first suggested to have been that prisoner, by the Baron de Heiss, -in a letter to the authors of the “Journal Encyclopédique,” +in a letter to the authors of the “Journal Encyclopédique,” dated Phalsbourg, June 28th, 1770; in which he grounded his opinion upon a letter, published in a work entitled -“L’Histoire Abregée de l’Europe;” published at Leyden +“L’Histoire Abregée de l’Europe;” published at Leyden in 1687; giving a detailed account of the arrest, by French agents, of a secretary of the Duke of Mantua.<a name="FNanchor_155" id="FNanchor_155"></a><a href="#Footnote_155" class="footnote-anchor">155</a> M. Dutens, -in his “Correspondance Interceptée,” published in 1789, +in his “Correspondance Interceptée,” published in 1789, held the same opinion, grounded upon the same authority. -He afterwards repeated the same opinion in his “Mémoires +He afterwards repeated the same opinion in his “Mémoires d’un Voyageur, qui se repose.” Finally, M. Roux, (Fazillac) in 1801, published his work upon the Iron Mask; in which he supported the same opinion; and attached to the Secretary @@ -4156,7 +4115,7 @@ lose any time in acquainting your Majesty with this affair, because he feared some surprise from the Spaniards; but that if I wished him to keep his word with me, I must not, on any account, -communicate the project to the Cardinal d’Estrées, +communicate the project to the Cardinal d’Estrées, because there was so strong a report in Italy, that he had your Majesty’s orders to negociate with the Princes there, of which the Spaniards had so @@ -4167,13 +4126,13 @@ your Majesty, who would, at the same time, lose all hope of getting possession of Casale; that he would take measures to tranquillize them, and to prevent their having any suspicions of his conduct; -and that if the Cardinal d’Estrées made him any +and that if the Cardinal d’Estrées made him any propositions, he would only receive them in full council, and give general answers, which would<a class="page" name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a> not render him suspected by any body. I thus find myself precluded from the confidence which I intended to make of this business to the Cardinal -d’Estrées, who I believe will soon be here, and +d’Estrées, who I believe will soon be here, and am obliged to keep the secret scrupulously, till I have received the orders of your Majesty. The Duke of Mantua also offers to raise a regiment, @@ -4241,7 +4200,7 @@ necessary in this affair, will certainly remain impenetrable.</p> <p class="signature"> I have the honour to be, &c.<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_160" id="FNanchor_160"></a><a href="#Footnote_160" class="footnote-anchor">160</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_160" id="FNanchor_160"></a><a href="#Footnote_160" class="footnote-anchor">160</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -4273,7 +4232,7 @@ December 14th, 1677.</p> Majesty, that among the great Ministers, whom, in your supreme wisdom, you have sent at different times into Italy, your ambassador at Venice, the -Abbé d’Estrades, ought to be distinguished for +Abbé d’Estrades, ought to be distinguished for his skill and his zeal to seize every occasion, which may seem to offer him the improvement or the aggrandizement of your territories.</p> @@ -4331,7 +4290,7 @@ I trust your Majesty will have reason to applaud his conduct in your armies. By the confession of even the most skilful political observers, he is free from the suspicions, which may fall upon the -other Italian Sovereigns. The Abbé d’Estrades +other Italian Sovereigns. The Abbé d’Estrades knows that his Highness has communications with other great personages, who complain with reason of the insupportable yoke of the Spaniards, and @@ -4471,7 +4430,7 @@ you may choose to make upon it.</p> <p class="signature"> I am, &c.<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_163" id="FNanchor_163"></a><a href="#Footnote_163" class="footnote-anchor">163</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_163" id="FNanchor_163"></a><a href="#Footnote_163" class="footnote-anchor">163</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -4517,7 +4476,7 @@ sense that the before-mentioned Senator talked upon the <span class="nowrap">subject. ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_165" id="FNanchor_165"></a><a href="#Footnote_165" class="footnote-anchor">165</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_165" id="FNanchor_165"></a><a href="#Footnote_165" class="footnote-anchor">165</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -4626,7 +4585,7 @@ the Duke of Mantua.</p> <p class="date">St. Germain, January 12th, 1678.</p> -<p class="salutation"><span class="smcap">Abbé d’Estrades</span>,</p> +<p class="salutation"><span class="smcap">Abbé d’Estrades</span>,</p> <p>I have seen with pleasure, by your letter of the 18th of last month, the pains you have taken, @@ -4753,14 +4712,14 @@ LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH TO MATTHIOLI.</h3> <p class="salutation"><span class="smcap">Count Matthioli</span>,</p> <p>I have seen by the letter you wrote me, as well -as by what my Ambassador, the Abbé d’Estrades, +as by what my Ambassador, the Abbé d’Estrades, communicated to me, the affection that you show for my interests. You cannot doubt but that I am much obliged to you for it, and that I shall<a class="page" name="Page_117" id="Page_117">117</a> have much pleasure in giving you proofs of my satisfaction upon every occasion. Referring you, therefore, for further particulars, to what will be -said to you from me by the Abbé d’Estrades, +said to you from me by the Abbé d’Estrades, I shall not lengthen this letter more than to add, that I pray God to have you, Count Matthioli, in his holy keeping.</p> @@ -4819,7 +4778,7 @@ bettering my fortune.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_170" id="FNanchor_170"></a><a href="#Footnote_170" class="footnote-anchor">170</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_170" id="FNanchor_170"></a><a href="#Footnote_170" class="footnote-anchor">170</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5016,7 +4975,7 @@ which I am, Sire,</p> Your Majesty’s<br /> most humble, most obedient, and<br /></p> <p class="ssignature">most faithful subject and servant,<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_172" id="FNanchor_172"></a><a href="#Footnote_172" class="footnote-anchor">172</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_172" id="FNanchor_172"></a><a href="#Footnote_172" class="footnote-anchor">172</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5117,7 +5076,7 @@ quickly against their enterprises.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_175" id="FNanchor_175"></a><a href="#Footnote_175" class="footnote-anchor">175</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_175" id="FNanchor_175"></a><a href="#Footnote_175" class="footnote-anchor">175</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5190,7 +5149,7 @@ the one he intends making with the King.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_176" id="FNanchor_176"></a><a href="#Footnote_176" class="footnote-anchor">176</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_176" id="FNanchor_176"></a><a href="#Footnote_176" class="footnote-anchor">176</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5333,7 +5292,7 @@ unalterable attachment,</p> <p class="signature"> Sir, &c.<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_183" id="FNanchor_183"></a><a href="#Footnote_183" class="footnote-anchor">183</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_183" id="FNanchor_183"></a><a href="#Footnote_183" class="footnote-anchor">183</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5534,7 +5493,7 @@ nothing from them, except what fear or interest may oblige them <span class="nowrap">to. ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_185" id="FNanchor_185"></a><a href="#Footnote_185" class="footnote-anchor">185</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_185" id="FNanchor_185"></a><a href="#Footnote_185" class="footnote-anchor">185</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5594,7 +5553,7 @@ not divide this honour with his <span class="nowrap">Nuncio. ∗ & <p class="signature"> I am, &c.<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_188" id="FNanchor_188"></a><a href="#Footnote_188" class="footnote-anchor">188</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_188" id="FNanchor_188"></a><a href="#Footnote_188" class="footnote-anchor">188</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5603,7 +5562,7 @@ I am, &c.<br /> <span class="footnote-text">This is one of those mistakes into which the French are so liable to fall from their slovenly way of writing the names of foreigners. The <i>Count de Prades</i> means Emmanuel -<i>Count d’Eparêdés</i>. Viceroy of Valentia, a Spanish nobleman, +<i>Count d’Eparêdés</i>. Viceroy of Valentia, a Spanish nobleman, whose daughter married Vespasian Gonzaga, only brother of Ferdinand III., Duke of Guastalla. The sole offspring of this marriage was Maria Louisa, who, as has before been @@ -5739,7 +5698,7 @@ Sire,<br /> Your Majesty’s<br /> most humble, most obedient, and</p> <p class="ssignature">most faithful Servant and Subject,<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_190" id="FNanchor_190"></a><a href="#Footnote_190" class="footnote-anchor">190</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_190" id="FNanchor_190"></a><a href="#Footnote_190" class="footnote-anchor">190</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5864,7 +5823,7 @@ a still longer <span class="nowrap">time. ∗ ∗ & <p class="signature"> I am, &c.<br /> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_191" id="FNanchor_191"></a><a href="#Footnote_191" class="footnote-anchor">191</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades</span>.<a name="FNanchor_191" id="FNanchor_191"></a><a href="#Footnote_191" class="footnote-anchor">191</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -5915,7 +5874,7 @@ the College for the last few days.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_192" id="FNanchor_192"></a><a href="#Footnote_192" class="footnote-anchor">192</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_192" id="FNanchor_192"></a><a href="#Footnote_192" class="footnote-anchor">192</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6055,7 +6014,7 @@ wished.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_195" id="FNanchor_195"></a><a href="#Footnote_195" class="footnote-anchor">195</a> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_195" id="FNanchor_195"></a><a href="#Footnote_195" class="footnote-anchor">195</a> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6183,7 +6142,7 @@ command of an army there.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_197" id="FNanchor_197"></a><a href="#Footnote_197" class="footnote-anchor">197</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_197" id="FNanchor_197"></a><a href="#Footnote_197" class="footnote-anchor">197</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6242,7 +6201,7 @@ he would receive every kind of satisfaction from his <span class="nowrap">journey. ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_198" id="FNanchor_198"></a><a href="#Footnote_198" class="footnote-anchor">198</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_198" id="FNanchor_198"></a><a href="#Footnote_198" class="footnote-anchor">198</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6339,7 +6298,7 @@ when he shall be with you.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_200" id="FNanchor_200"></a><a href="#Footnote_200" class="footnote-anchor">200</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_200" id="FNanchor_200"></a><a href="#Footnote_200" class="footnote-anchor">200</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6510,7 +6469,7 @@ be capable of inventing to me a story of this nature, even should it not be <span class="nowrap">true.<a name="FNanchor_203" id="FNanchor_203"></a><a href="#Footnote_203" class="footnote-anchor">203</a> ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_204" id="FNanchor_204"></a><a href="#Footnote_204" class="footnote-anchor">204</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_204" id="FNanchor_204"></a><a href="#Footnote_204" class="footnote-anchor">204</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6559,7 +6518,7 @@ take this trouble, and that it would be sufficient if I bore testimony to his zeal and to his good <span class="nowrap">intentions. ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_205" id="FNanchor_205"></a><a href="#Footnote_205" class="footnote-anchor">205</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_205" id="FNanchor_205"></a><a href="#Footnote_205" class="footnote-anchor">205</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6638,7 +6597,7 @@ possession of that place.</p> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_207" id="FNanchor_207"></a><a href="#Footnote_207" class="footnote-anchor">207</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_207" id="FNanchor_207"></a><a href="#Footnote_207" class="footnote-anchor">207</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6716,7 +6675,7 @@ received by your Majesty, as he could possibly <span class="nowrap">wish. ∗ ∗ ∗</span></p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_209" id="FNanchor_209"></a><a href="#Footnote_209" class="footnote-anchor">209</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_209" id="FNanchor_209"></a><a href="#Footnote_209" class="footnote-anchor">209</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -6774,7 +6733,7 @@ MATTHIOLI TO LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH.</h3> <p>The illness, which came upon me while I was getting ready for my departure, has, (as your Ma<a class="page" name="Page_180" id="Page_180">180</a>jesty -has deigned to be informed by the Abbé +has deigned to be informed by the Abbé d’Estrades, your Ambassador at Venice,) occasioned, to my extreme grief, the necessity for me to delay my journey to you. The eagerness I have @@ -6923,7 +6882,7 @@ PINCHESNE TO POMPONNE.</h3> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> -<p>I sent you word, some time back, that the Abbé +<p>I sent you word, some time back, that the Abbé d’Estrades was gone into the country, from whence he intended to continue his journey into France. The uneasiness he felt at the delay of the Count @@ -6975,7 +6934,7 @@ PINCHESNE TO POMPONNE.</h3> <p><span class="smcap">While</span> I was in the belief that the Count Matthioli had set out for the Court, according to the -promise he had made to the Abbé d’Estrades in +promise he had made to the Abbé d’Estrades in the last conference, which, as I sent you word, Sir, they had together, I have been surprised by learning at this moment, by a letter which he has written @@ -6989,7 +6948,7 @@ Court from thence. He has judged it proper, in order to keep the whole affair as secret as possible, to take him with him rather than any other, as he is already informed of all the circumstances of the -case, the Abbé d’Estrades having made use of him<a class="page" name="Page_185" id="Page_185">185</a> +case, the Abbé d’Estrades having made use of him<a class="page" name="Page_185" id="Page_185">185</a> in all the journeys that were necessary during the course of this affair. He is a very good sort of man, who is already entirely French in his dispositions, @@ -7055,7 +7014,7 @@ POMPONNE TO PINCHESNE.</h3> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span> <span class="ellipsis">∗</span></div> -<p>According to appearances the Abbé d’Estrades +<p>According to appearances the Abbé d’Estrades will soon arrive here, and with him the Count Matthioli, through whom we shall be able to know more distinctly the sentiments of the Duke @@ -7082,7 +7041,7 @@ POMPONNE TO PINCHESNE.</h3> principal point of which is, the making the King acquainted with the reason, for which the Count<a class="page" name="Page_187" id="Page_187">187</a> Matthioli did not set off so soon as he had promised -the Abbé d’Estrades. We must wait for +the Abbé d’Estrades. We must wait for his arrival to know what he has to propose to the King.</p> @@ -7444,7 +7403,7 @@ of the Duke of Mantua, according to the occasions which you may deem necessary after the return of the Count Matthioli. We have been afraid that, for so important an affair, the cypher -of the Abbé d’Estrades was too old, and had probably +of the Abbé d’Estrades was too old, and had probably been discovered, in the many times it has passed through the territories of Milan. You will make use of it as usual in your ordinary despatches; @@ -8074,7 +8033,7 @@ may, <span class="nowrap">&c.<a name="FNanchor_244" id="FNanchor_244"></a><a <span class="footnote-text">The sentence is left thus imperfect in M. Delort’s publication. The whole letter, however, is published in the work entitled, “Les philosophes et les gens de lettres -des XVII<sup>e</sup> et XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècles à la Bastille.” The rest of +des XVII<sup>e</sup> et XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècles à la Bastille.” The rest of the letter does not refer to Matthioli’s affair.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_245" id="Footnote_245"></a> @@ -8264,7 +8223,7 @@ POMPONNE TO MATTHIOLI.</h3> <p>I have received the letters, that you have taken the trouble to write to me, and I think I cannot do better than address my answer to them to the<a class="page" name="Page_221" id="Page_221">221</a> -care of the Abbé d’Estrades, as you intend making +care of the Abbé d’Estrades, as you intend making a journey to Turin. I have not failed to give an account to the King of your sorrow at the long delay of an affair, which was commenced and @@ -8276,7 +8235,7 @@ him being kept. You know how much you may promise yourself from his goodness when you shall have accomplished the success of the project, of which you yourself laid the foundation. Upon -this subject the Abbé d’Estrades will speak to +this subject the Abbé d’Estrades will speak to you still more in detail, and therefore I will not lengthen this letter any more than to assure you, that I am, &c.</p> @@ -8322,7 +8281,7 @@ more than ever, that his Majesty certainly meditates some great design on that side, although the strongest suspicion falls always on Genoa, and, next to that, on Casale. The Spanish Ambassador, -and the Abbé Frederic, the resident of the +and the Abbé Frederic, the resident of the Emperor, went together on Wednesday to the Duke of Mantua, to tell him they had heard from<a class="page" name="Page_223" id="Page_223">223</a> Turin that he wished to give Casale and the @@ -8342,7 +8301,7 @@ two more conferences this week with the aforesaid Count, the last of which was yesterday evening; in which we arranged that M. d’Asfeld and he should find themselves on the 9th of next month -at Notre-Dame d’Incréa, which is a village ten +at Notre-Dame d’Incréa, which is a village ten miles from Casale, in order to make there the exchange of the ratifications; and that the Duke of Mantua should arrive without fail at Casale on the @@ -8356,7 +8315,7 @@ that of the exchange of the ratifications and that of their arrival at Casale. M. d’Asfeld left this place yesterday after this conference to go to Pignerol, and the Count Matthioli is to set off -this evening for Incréa: but as the Duke of Mantua +this evening for Incréa: but as the Duke of Mantua wishes to remain only a single day at Mantua, and intends to travel post to Casale, he will remain here till the 11th or 12th of next month: it @@ -8372,7 +8331,7 @@ of him than if they saw him take his <span class="nowrap">departure. ∗ <hr class="footnote" /> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_253" id="Footnote_253"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_253">253</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">Sebastian Le Prêtre, Marquis of Vauban, the celebrated +<span class="footnote-text">Sebastian Le Prêtre, Marquis of Vauban, the celebrated Engineer; Marshal of France in 1703; Died in 1707.</span></div> @@ -8520,7 +8479,7 @@ been arrested at the latter place, and released afterwards. In any case, I cannot doubt but that you are already informed of it, since the Count mentions, in the same letter, that it has been written -to the Abbé d’Estrades, who will not certainly +to the Abbé d’Estrades, who will not certainly have failed to make you acquainted with it.</p> <div class="ellipsis"> @@ -8691,7 +8650,7 @@ though I have much in this affair, makes me desirous of it.</p> <p class="signature"> -<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_261" id="FNanchor_261"></a><a href="#Footnote_261" class="footnote-anchor">261</a><br /> +<span class="smcap">The Abbé d’Estrades.</span><a name="FNanchor_261" id="FNanchor_261"></a><a href="#Footnote_261" class="footnote-anchor">261</a><br /> </p> <hr class="footnote" /> @@ -8721,7 +8680,7 @@ until after the affair, for which the Sieur de Richemont is at Pignerol, shall have succeeded or failed.</p> -<p>I address to you a packet for the Abbé d’Estrades, +<p>I address to you a packet for the Abbé d’Estrades, which you will send him, if you please, by one of your officers, with a direction in your hand-writing; and when he shall have despatched to @@ -8831,7 +8790,7 @@ is aware that M. de Richemont is incognito in the citadel of this town, and that, in fact, he knows his real name; I do myself the honour of acquainting you with the circumstance. M. de -Saint-André even sends word, that he has been told +Saint-André even sends word, that he has been told at Turin that M. de Catinat is to take him with him to Casale. I do not know how they can have discovered so much, unless it is, that the absence @@ -8839,7 +8798,7 @@ of M. de Catinat has given occasion to some of the Guards<a name="FNanchor_266" id="FNanchor_266"></a><a href="#Footnote_266" class="footnote-anchor">266</a> to write from Paris, that he is in these parts. These reports also mention the days on<a class="page" name="Page_240" id="Page_240">240</a> which he has gone out of the citadel, and the spot -where the Abbé d’Estrades came to speak to him +where the Abbé d’Estrades came to speak to him the last time from Turin. I have answered nothing when I have heard these things said, except that I knew of no one in the citadel, and nothing @@ -8853,7 +8812,7 @@ and the Duke of Mantua, on the subject of Casale; and that he also knew that during the last ten days it had been absolutely broken off. The retrograde movements of the troops cantoned in the -Briançonnois and the valley of Chaumont, on the +Briançonnois and the valley of Chaumont, on the side of Dauphiny and Provence, seem to confirm the report of the Marquis of Saint-Maurice; but the arrival of the battalion of the regiment of @@ -8950,8 +8909,8 @@ of Guards, or some other person, may have given him this idea.</p> <p>I did myself the honour to send you word, Sir, -of all that passed in my journey to Incréa. I -have received letters from the Abbé d’Estrades, in +of all that passed in my journey to Incréa. I +have received letters from the Abbé d’Estrades, in which he informs me that the troops have retired a little, in order to get into quarters where they can subsist more conveniently; and also of the accounts @@ -9077,7 +9036,7 @@ of Fidelity.</p> the first of this month, of your interview with the Count Matthioli, of the assurances he gave you of his good intentions, and of the journey he -was preparing to make to the Abbé d’Estrades, +was preparing to make to the Abbé d’Estrades, does not prevent his being suspected with great reason of want of fidelity. Do not, however, let him discover, in case you see him again, the knowledge @@ -9117,7 +9076,7 @@ LOUVOIS TO SAINT-MARS.</h3> <p class="date">Saint Germain, April 27th, 1679.</p> -<p class="date-sep"><span class="smcap">The</span> King has sent orders to the Abbé d’Estrades, +<p class="date-sep"><span class="smcap">The</span> King has sent orders to the Abbé d’Estrades, to try and arrest a man, with whose conduct His Majesty has reason to be dissatisfied; of which he has commanded me to acquaint you, in @@ -9157,7 +9116,7 @@ and that he will not wish to break the promises he has given to his Majesty. Meanwhile we hear that this Count has arrived at Turin, where he thinks, without doubt, to impose again upon the -Abbé d’Estrades. It is important always not to +Abbé d’Estrades. It is important always not to show that you are acquainted with his conduct.</p> <p class="signature"> @@ -9183,7 +9142,7 @@ CATINAT TO LOUVOIS.</h3> <p class="date-sep"><span class="smcap">I arrested</span> Matthioli yesterday, three miles from hence, upon the King’s territories, during -an interview which the Abbé d’Estrades had ingeniously +an interview which the Abbé d’Estrades had ingeniously contrived between him, Matthioli, and myself, to facilitate the scheme. For the purpose of arresting him, I only made use of the Chevalier @@ -9194,11 +9153,11 @@ one knows the name of the rascal, not even the officers who assisted in his arrest: he is in the chamber which the individual named Dubreuil occupied, where he will be treated civilly, according -to the request of the Abbé d’Estrades, until +to the request of the Abbé d’Estrades, until the wishes of the King, with regard to him, are known. I do not write any thing to you, Sir, respecting the certain conviction we have acquired -of the villanies of this man, the Abbé d’Estrades +of the villanies of this man, the Abbé d’Estrades having already given his Majesty all the information<a class="page" name="Page_251" id="Page_251">251</a> possible upon this subject. In the interview we had together before his arrest, we talked of various @@ -9215,7 +9174,7 @@ him to receive the troops of the King in conformity with the treaty. All these papers are in a box at Bologna, in the hands of his wife, who is retired into the convent of the Nuns of Saint -Lewis. The Abbé d’Estrades is of opinion that +Lewis. The Abbé d’Estrades is of opinion that no time should be lost in obtaining these papers. As I only brought this man here yesterday very late, and that the post goes early this morning, I @@ -9294,13 +9253,13 @@ the affair is concluded as far as regards negociation; but this is a fact that we need only make known when we think proper. As I am aware of what importance it is to have possession of these -original papers, I have acquainted the Abbé d’Estrades +original papers, I have acquainted the Abbé d’Estrades with the expedients I thought might be made use of for this purpose, in order that I may be assisted by his advice. I do not detail them at present to you, Sir, because I expect to-day the -Sieur Giuliani, whom the Abbé d’Estrades is to -send to me, together with the Abbé de Montesquiou, +Sieur Giuliani, whom the Abbé d’Estrades is to +send to me, together with the Abbé de Montesquiou, his relation, for the purpose of the former’s being confronted with the Sieur de Lestang. As this interview will probably suggest to me more @@ -9316,7 +9275,7 @@ myself the honour to send you word, Sir, by the next post, what shall have been the issue of the interview between the Sieur de Lestang and Giuliani.</p> -<p>The Abbé d’Estrades, by his care and address, +<p>The Abbé d’Estrades, by his care and address, has found means to send to Pignerol the servant of the Sieur de Lestang, with his goods and all his papers. I have made an inventory of the @@ -9328,7 +9287,7 @@ I have extracted, and a short summary of what I have been able to learn from the Sieur de Lestang in the conversations that I have had with him; respecting which he tells me he has already sent -information to the King, or to the Abbé d’Estrades, +information to the King, or to the Abbé d’Estrades, which has diminished the impatience I should otherwise have had of acquainting you, Sir, with them. M. de Saint-Mars treats the @@ -9374,7 +9333,7 @@ four blank papers, signed by the Duke of Mantua, to the governor of Casale; also the dates of the departure from Venice of M. d’Asfeld, and of the day, on which he, the Sieur de Lestang, and the -Sieur d’Asfeld were to meet at Incréa.</p> +Sieur d’Asfeld were to meet at Incréa.</p> <p>5. A memorandum, to make him recollect the name of a man living at Placentia, to whom he @@ -9404,7 +9363,7 @@ pleasures.</p> that the Duke of Mantua received, on the 14th of January, 2,500 pistoles from his mother; and on the 10th of February, 3,000 pistoles from the -Abbé Frederic, the resident of the Emperor at +Abbé Frederic, the resident of the Emperor at Venice; also containing an account of the communication which he, the Sieur de Lestang, has with the Governor of Casale.</p> @@ -9454,7 +9413,7 @@ to that effect.<a name="FNanchor_278" id="FNanchor_278"></a><a href="#Footnote_2 <hr class="footnote" /> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_277" id="Footnote_277"></a> <span class="footnote-label"><a href="#FNanchor_277">277</a></span> -<span class="footnote-text">He had succeeded the Abbé d’Estrades as French Ambassador +<span class="footnote-text">He had succeeded the Abbé d’Estrades as French Ambassador at Venice.</span></div> <div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_278" id="Footnote_278"></a> @@ -9470,8 +9429,8 @@ CATINAT TO LOUVOIS.</h3> <p class="date">Pignerol, May 10th, 1679.</p> -<p class="date-sep"><span class="smcap">I have</span> delivered to the Abbé d’Estrades, by the -hands of his relation, the Abbé de Montesquiou, +<p class="date-sep"><span class="smcap">I have</span> delivered to the Abbé d’Estrades, by the +hands of his relation, the Abbé de Montesquiou, all the letters and papers of the Sieur de Lestang, which consisted in many letters, of which I have kept a list, containing shortly the subject of each @@ -9488,7 +9447,7 @@ seen nothing of consequence, except a Spanish cypher, which he confesses to have come from the Count de Melgar.<a name="FNanchor_279" id="FNanchor_279"></a><a href="#Footnote_279" class="footnote-anchor">279</a></p> -<p>I made him relate before me to the Abbé de +<p>I made him relate before me to the Abbé de Montesquiou, all that he had done since his return from France, without interrupting him; having, nevertheless, let him know, before I permitted him @@ -9582,14 +9541,14 @@ he kept up a communication, for the purpose of amusing them.</p> <p>In the midst of these events, he says that he -agreed upon the rendezvous of Incréa, where he<a class="page" name="Page_265" id="Page_265">265</a> +agreed upon the rendezvous of Incréa, where he<a class="page" name="Page_265" id="Page_265">265</a> was to meet d’Asfeld, on the 7th March, for the exchange of the ratifications; after which he did not doubt but he should be able to conclude the affair, having all the orders necessary, besides his intelligence with the Governor, so that he could not have found any obstacle, nor any difficulty; -that in going to the before-mentioned Incréa, he +that in going to the before-mentioned Incréa, he had been searched and robbed, on the frontiers of the Brescian and the Milanese; that, notwithstanding, having remained master of his papers, which @@ -9603,11 +9562,11 @@ whether, if he came to Pignerol, I<a name="FNanchor_281" id="FNanchor_281"></a>< confidence in him, he took the resolution of going back to Venice, to inform M. de Pinchesne of all that had happened, and to concert new measures -with him; that upon a simple letter of the Abbé +with him; that upon a simple letter of the Abbé d’Estrades, who sent him word it was necessary they should have an interview, he had not lost a moment of time in going to Turin; that with the<a class="page" name="Page_266" id="Page_266">266</a> -consent of the aforesaid Abbé d’Estrades, he had +consent of the aforesaid Abbé d’Estrades, he had been at Asti, for the purpose of managing a secret interview with the Governor of Casale, at a mile from Moncalvo, in order, by promising him great @@ -9616,7 +9575,7 @@ when, for the saving of his honour, he should have received an order from his master, and been shown that he had made a treaty with the King. He says that he left him in a very good disposition. That -afterwards he returned to Turin, where the Abbé +afterwards he returned to Turin, where the Abbé d’Estrades proposed to him an interview with me, in which I arrested him.</p> @@ -9636,7 +9595,7 @@ order the better to advance the affair in question.</p> of getting possession of the original papers<a class="page" name="Page_267" id="Page_267">267</a> which are at Padua, which have been put into the hands of the Sieur Giuliani, by the advice of the -Abbé d’Estrades, who places an entire confidence +Abbé d’Estrades, who places an entire confidence in him: he will make use of these three letters as he shall judge most fit, according to the disposition in which he shall find the father of the Sieur @@ -9654,7 +9613,7 @@ his papers should be immediately delivered into the hands of the Sieur Giuliani. In the third, which is the last to be made use of, in case the two first have no effect, he desires him to come to Turin; and -tells him that at the house of the Abbé d’Estrades +tells him that at the house of the Abbé d’Estrades he will be instructed where he is, and the means to be employed to speak with him. The Sieur de Lestang has no doubt of being able, in this interview @@ -9726,7 +9685,7 @@ papers, if this affair was despaired of as far as regards the Duke of Mantua, and that the King thought that the plan I send to you, Sir, was worth trying, I would concert what was to be -done with the Abbé d’Estrades, according to the +done with the Abbé d’Estrades, according to the orders I should receive upon the subject. I beg pardon, Sir, for troubling you with so long a letter; but I could not acquaint you in fewer @@ -9771,7 +9730,7 @@ POMPONNE TO PINCHESNE.</h3> still more to confirm the treachery of the Count Matthioli, of which we had even before had too many proofs. He was, in fact, arrived in Piedmont, -and had seen the Abbé d’Estrades. It is +and had seen the Abbé d’Estrades. It is impossible to conceive the insolence of his daring to show himself, at a moment when all Italy rings with his perfidy. However, it is to be wished @@ -9877,7 +9836,7 @@ they cannot doubt of it.</p> <p>I cannot, Sir, refrain from testifying to you the joy I felt in learning this week, by a letter of the -Abbé d’Estrades, that the Count Matthioli has +Abbé d’Estrades, that the Count Matthioli has been carried prisoner to Pignerol, and that thus this rogue will no more be in a condition to execute, every day, fresh perfidies.</p> @@ -9955,11 +9914,11 @@ the truth. One sees very well by his answers that his conduct has been infamous. I see no good reason which can excuse him for having had such intimate communication with the Court of Savoy, -with the Abbé Frederic (the resident of the Emperor +with the Abbé Frederic (the resident of the Emperor at Venice), and with Don Francis Visconti, one of the partizans of Spain, without any participation or correspondence upon the subject with -M. de Pomponne, the Abbé d’Estrades, or M. +M. de Pomponne, the Abbé d’Estrades, or M. de Pinchesne; this fact prevents my having any confidence in him. Nevertheless he persists, with the utmost obstinacy, in declaring, that the Go<a class="page" name="Page_277" id="Page_277">277</a>vernor @@ -10003,7 +9962,7 @@ which had been settled for our interview with him. But it is almost impossible in all these proceedings to answer for the person of Matthioli: as there is, therefore, this inconvenience in -the plan, the Abbé d’Estrades could, if it is the +the plan, the Abbé d’Estrades could, if it is the King’s wish that any proposition should be made to this Governor, according to the orders he should receive, have him spoken to, and his intentions @@ -10175,14 +10134,14 @@ off for Venice, leaving the original papers, and not taking them with him. He arrived ill at Venice; went to bed as soon as he arrived there, where he remained three days; afterwards he went to see -the Duke of Mantua, who told him that the Abbé +the Duke of Mantua, who told him that the Abbé Frederic, the Resident of the Emperor at Venice, was acquainted with all the affair respecting Casale; to which the aforesaid Matthioli answered that he was not surprised at it, and that assuredly his Mother, to whom he had told all himself, had had no reserve upon the subject with the aforesaid -Abbé Frederic. He asked him afterwards for the +Abbé Frederic. He asked him afterwards for the original papers, which he told him he could not give him, having left them at Padua, upon the advice which Giuliani had given him from him, to @@ -10196,17 +10155,17 @@ into engagements from which he could not extricate himself without breaking his word, which would be very dangerous to do with so powerful a Prince. The Duke of Mantua obliged him afterwards -to have an interview with him and the Abbé +to have an interview with him and the Abbé Frederic, which took place in the chamber of a Monk of Saint George; they were masked there, in order not to be known. The Duke of Mantua said to the Sieur Matthioli, “I leave you with the -Abbé Frederic, with whom you will hold a conversation; +Abbé Frederic, with whom you will hold a conversation; you must do all that he shall bid you.” -The aforesaid Abbé Frederic showed him a copy +The aforesaid Abbé Frederic showed him a copy of the treaty; and appeared so particularly instructed upon the subject, that there was no -possibility of his denying it. The aforesaid Abbé +possibility of his denying it. The aforesaid Abbé told him that it was an affair which must be broken off; that it would be the ruin of Italy and of his master also, and that it was absolutely @@ -10244,7 +10203,7 @@ him see that he would not ask any thing of him which he could not execute with honour; that he<a class="page" name="Page_287" id="Page_287">287</a> had made d’Asfeld set off from Venice two or three days afterwards, in order to arrive about -the same time with him at Incréa, where he intended +the same time with him at Incréa, where he intended to have taken all the necessary measures with the aforesaid Governor, for the completion of the affair.</p> @@ -10304,14 +10263,14 @@ never given to him.</p> Venice with some one of the partisans of Spain, he answered, no; that he left that place on the 28th of February, two days after M. d’Asfeld, to go to -Incréa.</p> +Incréa.</p> <p>Being asked whether he had not known beforehand, that the Sieur d’Asfeld was to be arrested, he answered that he had had no knowledge of it, and that he had even only known with certainty his detention at Buffacore, as far as which place he -had gone on his road to the rendezvous at Incréa, +had gone on his road to the rendezvous at Incréa, having with him all the papers necessary for the conclusion of the affair of Casale, which he had concealed so well in a saddle, that they were not @@ -10389,12 +10348,12 @@ mother of the Duke of Mantua, to whom her son had confided the whole affair.</p> <p>He came from Padua to Turin, upon receiving -the letter of the Abbé d’Estrades, in order to contrive +the letter of the Abbé d’Estrades, in order to contrive an interview with the Governor of Casale; which he had done, and had found the Governor well inclined to contribute to the completion of the business. From thence he returned to Turin, -where the Abbé d’Estrades persuaded him to have +where the Abbé d’Estrades persuaded him to have an interview with me, during which I arrested him. I send this last fact to you, Sir, shortly, because I have already given you a sufficiently @@ -10488,7 +10447,7 @@ man employed in this affair, although I called myself an officer going to Vercelli, and that for the chance of this, he was determined to treat me with great distinction. Lestang has told me that he -related all this to the Abbé d’Estrades. I have +related all this to the Abbé d’Estrades. I have asked him why, as the Governor was so well-intentioned, he, Lestang, had eluded a prompt execution, when it was proposed to him? He answers @@ -10593,7 +10552,7 @@ protection of the King. That he persuaded the aforesaid President that this affair would not take place, in order that the intelligence he gave him<a class="page" name="Page_299" id="Page_299">299</a> might agree with what he told the Duke of Mantua -himself, and the Abbé Frederic, resident of +himself, and the Abbé Frederic, resident of the Emperor at Venice; and that he encouraged this opinion in the mind of every body, the better to arrive at his ends, and to succeed in the plan he @@ -10799,7 +10758,7 @@ and he says that he has no further knowledge of it than what I have already, Sir, sent word of to you.</p> -<p>I have taken leave of the Abbé d’Estrades, as +<p>I have taken leave of the Abbé d’Estrades, as we were both agreed of my inutility here at present. I shall, therefore, set off the 6th, to come to the Court, as you, Sir, have ordered me; where I shall @@ -10846,7 +10805,7 @@ have been useful to the King, and that I am persuaded of his fidelity, and of his good inclinations towards France, which may render him still very useful for the future, I cannot forbear representing -to you, that the recompense which the Abbé d’Estrades +to you, that the recompense which the Abbé d’Estrades wished to procure for him, is not a fitting one; and I feel myself the more obliged to say this, because you do me the honour to inform me that his @@ -11292,7 +11251,7 @@ this month, by which his Majesty having discovered the extreme repugnance you have to accept the command of the citadel of Pignerol, he has thought proper to accord to you that of Exiles, -vacant by the death of the Duke of Lesdiguières; +vacant by the death of the Duke of Lesdiguières; whither he wishes you to transport those of the prisoners who are under your care, whom he shall think it important not to entrust to any other<a class="page" name="Page_321" id="Page_321">321</a> @@ -11476,7 +11435,7 @@ of, for the security of your prisoners, made at Exiles, without taking the trouble of having them carried from Pignerol.</p> -<p>I have written to the <i>Père Lachaise</i> for the +<p>I have written to the <i>Père Lachaise</i> for the benefice, which you ask of the King for one of your children, to whom I trust His Majesty will grant it.</p> @@ -11898,7 +11857,7 @@ bark, that, for the last three days, I have been free from fever. I have sent to Toulon for my litter, in order to go from hence the 26th of this month, and I hope to be at Exiles in eight days, -by the Embrun and Briançon road. As soon as +by the Embrun and Briançon road. As soon as I shall have had the honour of receiving your commands, Sir, I shall set forth again with my prisoner, whom I promise to conduct here in all @@ -12021,7 +11980,7 @@ faith.</p> <h3><a name="appendix_128" id="appendix_128"></a>No. 128.</h3> <p class="abstract">Extract from the Register of the Bastille, published in the -Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée.”</p> +Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée.”</p> <h4>Names and qualities of the Prisoners.</h4> @@ -12066,7 +12025,7 @@ had the care of him.</p> <h3><a name="appendix_129" id="appendix_129"></a>No. 129.</h3> <p class="abstract">Second Extract from the Register of the Bastille, published -in the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée.”</p> +in the Work entitled, “La Bastille Dévoilée.”</p> <h4>Dates of the Deaths.</h4> @@ -12100,7 +12059,7 @@ reduced to powder and to cinders, and thrown into the drains. The rest of the things, such as the silver, copper, and pewter, were melted. This prisoner was lodged in the third chamber of -the tower <i>Bertaudière</i>, which room was scraped +the tower <i>Bertaudière</i>, which room was scraped and filed quite to the stone, and fresh white-washed from the top to the bottom. The doors and windows were burnt like the rest.</p> @@ -12150,7 +12109,7 @@ Signed, <span class="smcap">Poitevin</span>.</p> <div class="section-sep"></div> <h3><a name="appendix_131" id="appendix_131"></a>No. 131.</h3> -<p class="abstract">Extract from the Work entitled “<i>La Correspondance Interceptée</i>,” +<p class="abstract">Extract from the Work entitled “<i>La Correspondance Interceptée</i>,” by M. Lewis Dutens, published in 1789.</p> <p>In order to treat this subject (that of the Iron @@ -12175,15 +12134,15 @@ he was the Minister of an Italian Prince.</p> <h3><a name="appendix_132" id="appendix_132"></a>No. 132.</h3> <p class="abstract">Extract from the article on the Iron Mask in the Work entitled -“<i>Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature</i>;” by Mr. +“<i>Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature</i>;” by Mr. Quintin Craufurd.</p> <p><span class="smcap">Before</span> the publication of the “<i>Correspondance -Interceptée</i>,” I had heard it said, that M. de Choiseul +Interceptée</i>,” I had heard it said, that M. de Choiseul had spoken to Lewis the Fifteenth on the subject of the masked prisoner; but that he had not been able to obtain any satisfactory answer. I addressed -myself to the Abbé Barthelemi and to the Abbé +myself to the Abbé Barthelemi and to the Abbé Beliardi, who had both lived in intimacy with M. de Choiseul: they acquainted me that it was at their request the Duke de Choiseul had spoken upon @@ -12191,7 +12150,7 @@ this subject to Lewis the Fifteenth; that the King had answered him, that he believed the prisoner was a minister of one of the courts of Italy; but that the Duke observed that this conversation appeared -to embarrass him. The Abbé Beliardi told +to embarrass him. The Abbé Beliardi told me in proper terms, that the King wished to evade the subject. They then begged M. de Choiseul to engage Madame de Pompadour to speak to the @@ -12206,7 +12165,7 @@ than that which he had given to his Minister.</p> <h3><a name="appendix_133" id="appendix_133"></a>No. 133</h3> <p class="abstract">Letter from the Baron de Heiss to the Authors of the -“<i>Journal Encyclopédique</i>,” on the subject of the Iron +“<i>Journal Encyclopédique</i>,” on the subject of the Iron Mask; published in that Journal, in 1770.</p> <p class="salutation"> @@ -12215,13 +12174,13 @@ Mask; published in that Journal, in 1770.</p> <p>Since the publication of the anecdote respecting the Man in the Iron Mask, which M. de Voltaire -has given us in his “<i>Siècle de Louis</i> XIV.,” I have +has given us in his “<i>Siècle de Louis</i> XIV.,” I have been always very curious to discover who this prisoner could be; but all my researches had hitherto failed in giving me any information which could content me; chance has placed in my hands a detached number of a work, of which the title is -“<i>Histoire abrégée de l’Europe</i>,” for the month of +“<i>Histoire abrégée de l’Europe</i>,” for the month of August 1687, printed that same year at Leyden, by “<i>Claude Jordan</i>.” At the article Mantua, I found the letter, which I have the honour to send @@ -12264,7 +12223,7 @@ in the preceding one.<a name="appendix_134" id="appendix_134"></a></p> </p> <p>One of my friends tells me, that he has read in -the “<i>Histoire abrégée de l’Europe</i>,” (Vol. ii. p. 33.), +the “<i>Histoire abrégée de l’Europe</i>,” (Vol. ii. p. 33.), that it was said, that the Duke of Mantua had had the intention of selling his capital town; but that the author of this History did not believe it.</p> @@ -12387,421 +12346,38 @@ under the title “Historia della Republica Veneta,” starting with par <p>The following corrections have been made to the printed original:</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_iv">Page iv</a>, “Cassale” corrected to “Casale” (going to Casale).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_viii">Page viii</a>, “Dévoillée” amended to “Dévoilée” (“La Bastille Dévoilée”).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_viii">Page viii</a>, “Melanges” amended to “Mélanges” (Mélanges d’Histoire).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_viii">Page viii</a>, “Dévoillée” amended to “Dévoilée” (“La Bastille Dévoilée”).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_viii">Page viii</a>, “Melanges” amended to “Mélanges” (Mélanges d’Histoire).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_14">Page 14</a>, “Soreigns” corrected to “Sovereigns” (the Italian Sovereigns).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_31">Page 31</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_58">footnote 58</a>, “No.” corrected to “Nos.” (Appendix, Nos. 75, 79, 81, 83, 88.)</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_44">Page 44</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_83">footnote 83</a>, “Sevigné’s” corrected to “Sévigné’s” (Madame de Sévigné).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_44">Page 44</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_84">footnote 84</a>, “vecu” corrected to “vécu” (comme il a vécu).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_44">Page 44</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_83">footnote 83</a>, “Sevigné’s” corrected to “Sévigné’s” (Madame de Sévigné).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_44">Page 44</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_84">footnote 84</a>, “vecu” corrected to “vécu” (comme il a vécu).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_46">Page 46</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_88">footnote 88</a>, “No.” amended to “Nos.” (Ibid. Nos. 84, 85.)</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_51">Page 51</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_99">footnote 99</a>, “Appendix, 104.” amended to “Appendix, No. 104.”</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_52">Page 52</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_101">footnote 101</a>, “Appendix, 105.” amended to “Appendix, No. 105.”</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_76">Page 76</a>, “Bertaudiere” amended to “Bertaudière” (tower of the Bertaudière).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_83">Page 83</a>, “Correspondence” amended to “Correspondance” (Correspondance Interceptée).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_76">Page 76</a>, “Bertaudiere” amended to “Bertaudière” (tower of the Bertaudière).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_83">Page 83</a>, “Correspondence” amended to “Correspondance” (Correspondance Interceptée).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_83">Page 83</a>, “aujourdhui” amended to “aujourd’hui” (La Marquise aura aujourd’hui).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_83">Page 83</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_155">footnote 155</a>, (footnote to <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_154">footnote 154</a>,) “138” corrected to “133” (Appendix, No. 133.)</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_144">Page 144</a>, “necesary” amended to “necessary” (will be necessary, before the Count).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_173">Page 173</a>, “Estradés” amended to “Estrades” (transaction Estrades alludes).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_173">Page 173</a>, “Estradés” amended to “Estrades” (transaction Estrades alludes).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_184">Page 184</a>, “to day” corrected to “to-day” (departure till to-day).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_197">Page 197</a>, “December,” amended to “December” (December 29, 1678.)</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_202">Page 202</a>, “Jan 15th,” amended to “Jan. 15th,” (Venice, Jan. 15th, 1679.)</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_210">Page 210</a>, “were” corrected to “where” (where there are none).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_215">Page 215</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_244">footnote 244</a>, “siécles” corrected to “siècles” (XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècles).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_215">Page 215</a>, <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_244">footnote 244</a>, “siécles” corrected to “siècles” (XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècles).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_230">Page 230</a>, “No” amended to “No.” (No. 71.)</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_236">Page 236</a>, “mean while” corrected to “meanwhile” (whom, in the meanwhile).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_252">Page 252</a>, the missing locator for <a class="transnote" href="#Footnote_275">footnote 275</a> has been supplied.</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_280">Page 280</a>, “Ambassador’s” amended to “Ambassador” (the Ambassador being present).</p> -<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_348">Page 348</a>, “Encyclopèdique” corrected to “Encyclopédique” (Journal -Encyclopédique).</p> +<p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_348">Page 348</a>, “Encyclopèdique” corrected to “Encyclopédique” (Journal +Encyclopédique).</p> <p><a class="transnote" href="#Page_349">Page 349</a>, “Vol. ii. p. 33.)” amended to “(Vol. ii. p. 33.)”</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The True History of The State -Prisoner, commonly called The Iron Mask, by George Agar Ellis - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE HISTORY *** - -***** This file should be named 42419-h.htm or 42419-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/4/1/42419/ - -Produced by StevenGibbs, Christoph W. 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