Versailles, Nov. 2d, 1680.
I havereceived your letter of the 26th of last month. I am writing to the Sieur du Channoy to make the necessary repairs to the barracks of the citadel of Pignerol: with regard to the brambles which are in the walls, I think it will be better to wait till the spring to have them rooted up,because that will make them die more certainly, and then at the same time mortar might be inserted into the fissures.
You must keep the ring, which the Sieur Matthioli has given to the Sieur de Blainvilliers, in order to restore it to him, if it should ever happen that the King ordered him to be set at liberty.
De Louvois.310
310From the Archives of France.