[329] Despatches from the Count de Pontchartrain to the Lieutenant of Police d’Argenson, July 22 and 30, 1711:--_Correspondance Administrative du Règne de Louis XIV._, vol. iv. pp. 292 and 293. _Procès-verbal de M. d’Argenson, contenant enqueste sur la vie et la mort de Monseigneur Avedick, patriarche des Arméniens à Constantinople_, September 15, 1711:--Manuscripts of the Arsenal Library, _Papiers d’Argenson_. [330] Letters from Count Desalleurs, ambassador of France at Constantinople, to the Marquis de Torcy, June 16, 1710, and Aug. 1, 1713. [331] I have a number of most interesting despatches relating to this end, and to some very curious scenes which occurred during the last years passed by Ferriol at Constantinople. Perhaps I shall utilize them some day. But the laws of proportion prevent me from doing so here and oblige me not to prolong this story beyond the death of the principal personage. After his return to France, whither he had brought that beautiful Circassian slave, who became celebrated under the name of Mademoiselle Aissé, Ferriol lived in obscurity, much, however, against his will, since he did not cease soliciting being sent back to Constantinople as ambassador, and to deny his madness with a vehemence and an excess of language which made his statement seem very improbable. [332] Unpublished despatches from the King to the Count Desalleurs, ambassador at Constantinople after Ferriol, September 25, 1710, and from the Marquis de Torcy to the same, of the same day:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 48. [333] Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 48. [334] Unpublished despatches from the King to M. de Fontenu, Consul at Smyrna, September 19, 1709; from Torcy to Ferriol, November 5, 1709; from the King to Ferriol, March 27, 1710:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 48; and from Ferriol to Torcy, May 23, 1711 (_ibid._ Turkey, 49).