For representing him in criminal trials Maitre Jean Rabateau received four hundred livres a year.

He was forbidden to appear in any but crown cases; and no one suspected him of receiving many bribes.

If in addition he held the office of Councillor to the Duke of Orleans he gained little by it.

Like most Parlement officials he was for the moment very poor.

A stranger in Poitiers, he had no house there, but lodged in a mansion, which, because it belonged to a family named Rosier, was called the Hotel de la Rose.