[544] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, July 19, 1669. We have already mentioned that the same precautions were adopted (ante, p. 234) even for the Protestant ministers who were confined at the Isles Sainte-Marguerite later. See Depping: Correspondance Administrative sous Louis XIV.
[545] Buticary was set at liberty at Saint-Mars’ request. The following extract from a despatch proves that he ought not to be confounded with Caluzio, as M. Loiseleur has done: “In the correspondence of Saint-Mars,” he says (Revue Contemporaine, July 31, 1867, p. 202, note), “Caluzio is sometimes called Buticary. One of the two names is a surname.” Now, September 14, 1675, Louvois writes to Saint-Mars: “You have done right to give a sergeant and two soldiers to take the Sieur Caluzio to Lyons, and as to the Sieur Buticary, when the King is at Saint-Germain, I will willingly speak in his favour and endeavour to obtain his release.”
[546] Delort, Histoire de la Détention des Philosophes, vol. i. and Roux-Fazillac.
[547] Letter from Louvois to Saint-Mars, May 12, 1680.
[548] Letter from Catinat to Louvois, May 3, 1679.
[549] Letter from Louvois, August 16, 1680, and from Saint-Mars, September 7 of the same year.
[550] Problèmes Historiques, Paris. Hachette.
[551] Revue Contemporaine, July 21, 1867, pp. 194-239.
[552] Revue Contemporaine, p. 206.
[553] François Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, whose name occurs so frequently throughout this work, was Louis XIV.’s Secretary of State for War and Prime Minister. He is responsible for the barbarous devastation of the Palatinate, and for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. After having served his Sovereign faithfully for six-and-thirty years, he fell under his displeasure, and was only saved from disgrace by a sudden death, which occurred in 1691, it is said from poison.