No. 39 Pinchesne to Pomponne
Intention of Estrades to leave Venice.
Venice, October 15, 1678.
Sir,
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 Matthioli in his departure, (although it only proceeded from his illness, and from the necessity he had to be near his master,) and his desire to see him set off before him, or at least at the same time, are the causes why he has always deferred his own departure; but having had four days ago a conference with the Count Matthioli, in which he assured him that he would without doubt set off for France to-day, and that he had even received the order of the Duke of Mantua to that effect ∗ ∗ ∗216
De Pinchesne.217
Notes
216 The sentence is left thus unfinished in the letter, as published by M. Delort.
217 From the Archives of the Office for Foreign Affairs, at Paris.