Having promised on departure[REF] that during his king's lifetime he would neither settle in Spain[REF] nor re-enter politics,[REF] Melgar returned to Paris[REF] and resumed his never entirely abandoned career of a press correspondent;[REF] he also maintained private links with some Carlist politicians [REF].
From that moment Melgar resumed duties of political secretary and partially advisor[REF] to the Carlist king, to some degree again acting in-between the monarch and Carlist politicians in Spain [REF].