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Surrender of
Monsieur Tubeuf, who was accompanied by an attorney named Blanc, a bailiff named Barbault, who was making an inventory of everything in the palace that belonged to His Eminence, and by Monsieur Petit, an old servant of Sieur Tubeuf, who carefully locked each room after it had been visited, and retained the keys. He told me, as soon as we met, that he sent for me to get from me the keys of the library, since he had taken possession of the palace and everything it contained. I replied, that I would give them to him more willingly than to any other man in the world, in view of the good friendship he had always shown toward Monsignor the Cardinal;
