I HAVE acquainted the King with the contents of your letter of the 13th of last month, and with the list of the repairs necessary to be made to the tower at Exiles, which you deem the most proper residence for the prisoners whom His Majesty leaves under your care. The King has thought fit to grant you a thousand crowns, as well for the aforesaid repairs, as for those which you shall judge necessary to make in your own lodging; which, as soon as you receive this, you will take care to have done immediately, as if the expense was to come out of your own pocket: and as soon as the prison shall be in a fit state, it is the intention of His Majesty that you should transfer the aforesaid two prisoners to it, according to what I have already commanded you in my last letter; and in conformity with that and the order which was joined to it, you will then deliver to the Sieur de Villebois the command of the citadel of Pignerol. DE LOUVOIS.[316] [316] From the Archives of France. No. 114. LOUVOIS TO SAINT-MARS. Versailles, July 9th, 1681. I HAVE received your letter of the 29th of last month. You may have the doors you have need of, for the security of your prisoners, made at Exiles, without taking the trouble of having them carried from Pignerol. I have written to the _Père Lachaise_ for the benefice, which you ask of the King for one of your children, to whom I trust His Majesty will grant it. DE LOUVOIS.[317] [317] Ibid. No. 115. SAINT-MARS TO LOUVOIS. Precautions for the Security and Concealment of the Prisoners at Exiles. Pignerol, July 12th, 1681. Just setting off for Exiles. IN order that the prisoners may not be seen (at Exiles,) they will not leave their chamber when they hear mass; and in order that they may be kept the more securely, one of my lieutenants will sleep above them, and there will be two sentinels night and day, who will watch the whole round of the tower, without its being possible for them and the prisoners to see and to speak to one another, or even to hear any thing of one another. They will be the soldiers of my company, who will be always the sentinels over the prisoners. There is only a confessor, about whom I have my doubts; but if you do not disapprove, I will give them the curate of Exiles instead, who is a good man, and very old, whom I will forbid, on the part of His Majesty, to enquire who these prisoners are, or their names, or what they have been, or to speak of them in any way, or to receive from them by word of mouth, or by writing, either communications or notes. I am, &c. DE SAINT-MARS.[318] [318] Extracted from the work of M. Roux (Fazillac). No. 116. LOUVOIS TO SAINT-MARS. Departure of Saint-Mars from Pignerol ordered to be deferred, in order that he might receive Catinat there.