de Pomponne and Arnauld, entered his room on the 31st of October, 1668.

They chatted a while without any appearance of impatience on the part of M.de Saci.

"You are free," said his friends at last, who had wanted to prove him; "and they showed him the king's order, which he read," says Abbe Arnauld, "without any change of countenance, and as little affected by joy as he had been a moment before by the longinquity of his release." He lived fifteen years longer, occupied, during the interval of rest which the Peace of the Church restored to Port-Royal, in directing and fortifying souls.

He published, one after another, the volumes of his translation of the Bible, with expositions (_eclaircissements_) which had been required by the examiners.

In 1679 the renewal of the king's severities compelled him to retire completely to Pomponne.