The iron I wear on my leg, though it weighs only three pounds, inconvenienced me at first far more than that which you saw me in at La Tournelle." Files of Protestant galley-convicts were halted in the towns, in the hope of inspiring the obstinate with a salutary terror.
The error which had been fallen into, however, was perceived at court.
The stand made by Protestants astounded the superintendents as well as Louvois himself.

Everywhere men said, as they said at Dieppe, "We will not change our religion for anybody; the king has power over our persons and our property, but he has no power over our consciences." There was fleeing in all directions.

The governors grew weary of watching the coasts and the frontiers.

"The way to make only a few go," said Louvois, "is to leave them liberty to do so without letting them know it." Any way was good enough to escape from such oppression.

"Two days ago," wrote M.de Tesse, who commanded at Grenoble, "a woman, to get safe away, hit upon an invention which deserves to be known.