[534] Vol. v. p. 369.
[535] This is a collection of letters interchanged between the Marquis de L. and the Chevalier de B., in which the latter gives an account of his travels in France, Italy, Germany, and England, from September 5, 1782, to January 29, 1788. In it, Matthioly is confounded with another agent named Girolamo Magni.
[536] Mémoires de l’Académie de Berlin, 1794 and 1795, Division of Belles-Lettres, pp. 157-163.
[537] January 31, 1800.—Trans.
[538] Pp. 814-816.
[539] In this list I do not include the Hon. George Agar Ellis, whose work was translated into French and published by Barbeza, (Paris, 1830), because his book is itself only the almost literal reproduction of Delort’s.
[540] We have already seen that Delort had examined, in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, only a portion of the sections Venice and Mantua, and that of Savoy not at all. As to the despatches interchanged between the Minister of War and Saint-Mars, he had inspected the rather numerous letters in the Archives of the Empire, but not the drafts which are at the Ministry of War.
[541] “We share the opinion of those who think that the Man with the Iron Mask was no other than Matthioly:”—Histoire de Louvois, vol. iii. p. 111, note.
[542] Despatch from Louvois to Saint-Mars, January 30, 1675.
[543] Unpublished despatch from Louvois to Saint-Mars, April 18, 1674:—Archives of the Ministry of War.