[3] Thanks to the Edict given at Versailles on 22 May 1775, which fixed the finances of the Grand Conseil, we can read that "We have also fixed the finances of the offices of first and principal clerk of the audience in our Grand Conseil to which the sieur Vandive is provided, at the sum of 25 thousand livres (pounds).

He succeeded in 1774, Étienne Timoléon Isabeau de Montval, who was guillotined in Paris in year II.

[5] During the last illness of Louis XV, Vandive was sent, on Sunday 1 May 1774 by the Parlement of Paris to inquire on the health of the monarch, as the personal journal of Parisian bookseller Siméon-Prosper Hardy tells us: "The new court of the Parlement, according to ordinary practice, deputised Vandive, one of the first and principal court clerk of the Grand Chambre and of its notary-secretaries, to go to Versailles to obtain news on the King's health.

"[6] And Jean Cruppi in his biography of Linguet writes: "At the Palace, word was suddenly spreading that Louis XV was gravely ill.

The sieur Vandive, at his return, declared being received by the Duke of Aumont whom told him that the state of the King was Better.