text:  Yet the old treaties between France and the Porte were still in force; so that it was not without some reason that Kiuprili replied a few years later to the Marquis de Nointel's professions of amity on the part of France "I know that the French are our friends but I always happen to find them in the ranks of our enemies!" [19] Villa is said to have produced before the senate of Venice a letter from Morosini to the vizir offering to betray him into the hands of the Turks