‘... Posterity could never believe in these facts, had not you and I all the necessary documents to establish them, together with others still more incredible.... Had the late good King not expelled the Jesuits from his kingdom, and had he a Caramuel or a Malagrida for his confessor, nobody would have been surprised; but, thank God, I hope the new King will soon deliver you and me out of our embarrassments. I trust that no Jesuit will ever be his confessor, friend, or minister, whether he be disguised as priest, chancellor, duke and peer, courtier or courtesan.’[279]
De Broglio had said much more in his favour to Louis XVI. than he chose to tell D’Eon, and he now conveyed to him the King’s desire that he should continue to make his reports in cypher, addressing all such communications to the Count de Vergennes.