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England with the Prince of Orange; I do not think that it can have any
effect, but ... it is up to you, gentlemen, to keep your eyes peeled."
Rossignol's work gave him access to some of the greatest secrets of
the state and the court, and consequently made him a figure of some
prominence in the glittering court of Louis XIV. He appears in some of
the major memoirs
of that period. Tallement des Reaux tells some unflattering stories
about him and calls him "a poor species of man" in his Historiettes. But
the Duke of Saint-Simon, whose Memoires are a monument of French
literature, wrote that Rossignol was "the most skillful decipherer of
Europe. . . . No cipher escaped him; there were many which he read right
away. This gave him many intimacies with the king, and made him an
important man." Rossignol also became the first person to have his
biography written solely because of his cryptologic abilities. Charles
Perrault, who is better known as the formulator of the Mother Goose
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