ABSTRACT
Wednesday, 16 March 1672. After having spent all the morning working at Versailles in M. Colbert’s 1 mansion, I was called—when the King’s Council rose at midday—into his office to receive His Majesty’s dispatches for my journey to India, with orders to go at once to Paris and collect other packets which were in the hands of M. Berier. As I had, therefore, to receive the orders and dispatches for the East India Company, I stayed a few days in Paris, to call on and take leave of the Directors of the General Chamber, who showed me great kindness and expressed their satisfaction with my previous journey in the East in the Company’s service.
