memorialist Franรงoise Bertaut de Motteville in her memoirs published in 1723:
โ..as I have heard Cardinal Richelieuโs friends tell, he was in the habit of saying that โwith two lines of a manโs handwriting, an accusation could be made against the most innocent,โ because the business can be interpreted in such a way, that one can easily find what one wishes.โ