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42, had asked for me on the evening of the preceding day, and had given orders that I be told to go to him as early in the morning as possible.

I went, accordingly, at eight o'clock, to the house of the said Sieur Tubeuf, at the rear of the Palais-Royal, near the knoll of St. Roch. Having learned from the porter that the said Sieur had not yet risen, I proceeded to the palace of Monsignor the Cardinal, my master, where a man named Annet, attendant of the wardrobe, told me that Monsieur Tubeuf had taken possession of the palace and of all that was contained therein as security for the sum of six hundred and eighty thousand livres which was