[596] Unpublished despatch from the Abbé Morel to Louis XIV.:—Ibid.

[597] Unpublished despatch from Louvois to Villebois, March 30, 1682:—Archives of the Ministry of War.

[598] Ibid., April 13, 1682.

[599] Ibid., December 11, 1685.

[600] Here followed “de chambre,” but these two words have been erased.

[601] Unpublished despatches from Louvois to Villebois of May 1, 1684, and November 26, 1689.

[602] Unpublished despatch from Barbézieux to Laprade, July 28 1692.

[603] Ibid., December 27, 1693.

[604] Letter from Tessé to Barbézieux, December 1693:—Archives of the Ministry of War, 1271. Given by M. Rousset, vol. iv. p. 531.

[605] Unpublished despatches from Barbézieux to Laprade, March 20, 1694, and from Louis XIV. to the Marquis d’Herleville, March 19, 1694.