He was put into the Bastille, after an examination "which revealed a man of much wit and worth," said the king himself.

Fontaine remained separated from him for three months.

"Liberty, for me, is to be with M.de Saci," said the faithful secretary; "open the door of his room and that of the Bastille, and you will see to which of the two I shall run.

Without him everything will be prison to me; I shall be free wherever I see him." At last he had the joy of recovering his well-beloved master, strictly watched and still deprived of the sacraments.

Like Luther at Wartburg, he was finishing the revisal of his translation of the Bible, when his cousins, MM.