St. Germain, May 22d, 1679.
I have received your last letter without a date. You must keep the individual named Lestang in the severe confinement I enjoined in my precedingletters, without allowing him to see a physician, unless you know he is in absolute want of one.
One cannot but approve of your plan for preventing the Sieur de Pressigny from being aware of the residence at Pignerol of M. de Richemont, to whom I beg you to deliver the letter I send with this.
De Louvois.296
296From the Archives of France.