No. 62 Louvois to Saint-Mars
St. Germain, Feb. 7th, 1679.
I send you a letter for the same person241 to whom you were to deliver the two packages, which the individual named Barrere ought to have brought you by this time. I beg that you will give it to him, and send me by the return of the same courier, who will deliver to you this letter, whatever answer he shall make to it. The person who despatches this courier from Lyons, has orders to tell him, that he is the bearer of the letters of Madame Fouquet. It will be right for you to tell him the same thing when you send him back. You will observe, if you please, to put an envelope over your letter to me, addressed to the Sieur Du Bois, Clerk of the Foreign Post at Lyons.
If the person to whom you have to deliver this letter is not arrived, you will send me word of it by the return of the courier, and will keep the letter till his arrival.
De Louvois.242
Notes
241 This person was Catinat, who was now on his way to Pignerol, under the assumed name of Richemont.
242 From the Archives of France.