No. 75 Pomponne to Pinchesne
Suspicions of the Fidelity of Matthioli.
St. Germain, April 5th, 1679.
I have received your letter of the 18th of March, which shows the bad state in which, according to the Count Matthioli’s own accounts, the affair of Mantua is: he is very possibly, as you say, the sole author of all the accidents and impediments in it, which he writes word, in his letter to Giuliani, have happened. Your next letters will give us still clearer intelligence on this subject; but we have many reasons for apprehending that this negociation, which appeared so much advanced, may fail at last, when we were in the immediate expectation of seeing it happily concluded. ∗ ∗ ∗
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Notes
265 From the Archives of the Office for Foreign Affairs, at Paris.