Folios 187-193. Letter dated [March 26 new style] at Paris from [ Jean de Robethon...

Folios 187-193. Letter dated [March 26 new style] at Paris from [ Jean de Robethon to the King], reporting that Lord Portland had been at Versailles on the previous day, and had delivered to M. de Pomponne and M. de Torcy two notes, 'here annexed,' concerning 'the subjects of his Majesty who are in prison or at the galleys, whose release is claimed'; and that he asked at the same time for a reply to two other notes, annexed, which he had delivered on March 7 about the affairs of Orange and Burgundy. Regarding the matter of the revenues of the Principality of Orange, they indicated that neither Monsieur de Pontchartrain nor the Intendant of Provence had any idea of the use to which these had been put between 1684 and the start of the last war. Lord [Portland] replied that the King was indifferent to how the sums had been used, even if they could not remember this would not make their restitution any less just. No further difficulties were raised with respect to Orange, other than in relation to the reestablishment of a simple wall there. Reports that the Bishop of Orange refused to demolish the crosses there or even to send a priest to assist, producing a letter from the French Court stating that this Bishop must endure the violence of the Protestants since he cannot prevent it. Portland complained of this letter to the ministers who pled ignorance and concluded it must have come Pere la Chaise [confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise], strongly condemning the Bishop's actions and promised to speak of it to the King. They insist that in line with the Treaty of Ryswick, commissioners be appointed to deal with all that remains of the Orange and Burgundy business. They promised that there was no doubt that the King would be put back in possession of what he asked, but stated that once this was done it would be for the commissioners to get into the detail of the claims made by Madame d'Isenghien [Marie of Lorraine, Princess of Monaco].