But you are ignorant that Belle-Isle is a fief of M.Fouquet's, and that former monarchs gave the right to the seigneurs of Belle-Isle to arm their people." The major made a movement.

"Oh! do not interrupt me," continued D'Artagnan.

"You are going to tell me that that right to arm themselves against the English was not a right to arm themselves against their king.

But it is not M.Fouquet, I suppose, who holds Belle-Isle at this moment, since I arrested M.Fouquet the day before yesterday.

Now the inhabitants and defenders of Belle-Isle know nothing of this arrest.