Gilles, smitten with remorse, gives the man his own bed, bandages him, and has him confessed.

For several days the sorcerer hovers between life and death but finally recovers and flees from the castle.
Gilles was despairing of obtaining from the Devil the recipe for the sovereign magisterium, when Eustache Blanchet's return from Italy was announced.

Eustache brought the master of Florentine magic, the irresistible evoker of demons and larvae, Francesco Prelati.
This man struck awe into Gilles.

Barely twenty-three years old, he was one of the wittiest, the most erudite, and the most polished men of the time.

What had he done before he came to install himself at Tiffauges, there to begin, with Gilles, the most frightful series of sins against the Holy Ghost that has ever been known?
His testimony in the criminal trial of Gilles does not furnish us any very detailed information on his own score.