Fontainebleau, August 23d, 1681.
I havereceived your letter of the 13th of this month, which requires no answer, except to say that I have given orders for a French clerk to be sent, to have the direction of the Post-office at Pignerol; by means of whom we shall be assured that no further abuses can be committed with regard to the letters.
De Louvois.323
323From the Archives of France.