Departure of Saint-Mars from Pignerol ordered to be deferred, in order that he might receive Catinat there.
Versailles, July 22d, 1681.
I havereceived your letter of the 12th of this month, by which I see that the repairs which you have ordered to be made at Exiles will not permit you to leave Pignerol before the end of next month. As the service of the King will perhaps require that you should remain there all the following month, it would be well that you shouldadvance the aforesaid repairs of Exiles as little as possible, in order that you may have a pretext for not leaving Pignerol till the first days of the month of October; taking care to act in such a manner, that your continuing to remain there may not appear to be the result of voluntary delay.
I am about to send the necessary order for the repayment of the money you have expended for your prisoners, and you will receive it by the next post.
You will find joined with this letter a packet for M. de Pianesse,319which I request you to deliver to him without fail.
De Louvois.320
319The Marquis de Pianesse was one of the Ministers of the Court of Turin.
320From the Archives of France.