To: Fabian Montluc (MAE) | From: PN | CC: MNG, OCI

[Monsieur Baguette]

Fabian Montluc

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Monsieur Bart the Third,

I was of higher opinion of your comprehension ability. You see, I and my employees are no longer Gallic citizens, we are out of Gallic jurisdiction, so you can bring rain and fire upon us in Gallia for all we care. You can try to contact other houses regarding this "defamation" case, you will only pose yourself fool to engage yourself in diplomacy over such a trifle.

In addition, a single case is still a case. We did not trust the court of Confederation, and for a good reason as you saw from the political predicament that followed. There could be no justice in the court room, so the best remedy is publicity. If one is informed, one is equipped to deal with similar situations in the future. We warned other citizens of Languedoc and Gallia of the misdeeds of your employees and did rightfully so. Besides, if you as a Law Enforcement Officer are not familiar with the term "defamation" is is a false and unprivileged statement of fact that is harmful to someone's reputation, and published "with fault," meaning as a result of negligence or malice. Mind, that the information was not faulty - the incident reported did happen. Secondly, there was no malice in spreading that information - we actually did well to inform the others. With this argumentation you cannot make a proper case in the court. But yet again, we are no longer in Gallia and therefore no case can even be possible.

I advise you then to stop fighting the windmills and get to business to show in practice to the citizens of Gallia that we were wrong. Otherwise, you will just reinforce our claims.

Cordialment,
Baron Fabian Montluc