I should never end if I were to recount all the foolish and impertinent proposals they have made to me." M.de Tesse did not tell Louvois that he was obliged to have the pastors of Orange seized and carried off.

They were kept twelve years in prison at Pierre-Encise; none but M.de Chambrun, who had been taken to Valence, managed to escape and take refuge in Holland, bemoaning to the end of his days a moment's weakness.

"I was quite exhausted by torture, and I let fall this unhappy expression: 'Very well, then, I will be reconciled.' This sin has brought me down as it were into hell itself, and I have looked upon myself as a dastardly soldier who turned his back on the day of battle, and as an unfaithful servant who betrayed the interests of his master." The king assembled his council.

The lists of converts were so long that there could scarcely remain in the kingdom more than a few thousand recalcitrants.

"His Majesty proposed to take an ultimate resolution as regarded the Edict of Nantes," writes the Duke of Burgundy in a memorandum found amongst his papers.