You would announce it to them in vain.

It is a thing so unheard-of and extraordinary, so unexpected, that they would not believe you.

A Breton serves his master, and not his masters; he serves his master till he has seen him dead.

Now the Bretons, as far as I know, have not seen the body of M.Fouquet.

It is not, then, surprising they hold out against that which is neither M.
Fouquet nor his signature." The major bowed in token of assent.
"That is why," continued D'Artagnan, "I propose to cause two of the principal officers of the garrison to come on board my vessel.