"Sir," replied the baron, "you have given my family and me such cause of offence that I had come to the firm resolution never to ask a favour of you, and as perhaps you may have remarked during the journey we have taken with M.le marechal, I would rather have died of thirst than accept a glass of water from you.
But I have come here to-day not upon any private matter, to obtain my own ends, but upon a matter which concerns the welfare of the State.

I therefore beg you to put out of your mind the dislike which you have to me and mine, and I do this the more earnestly that your dislike can only have been caused by the fact that our religion is different from yours--a thing which could neither have been foreseen nor prevented.

My entreaty is that you do not try to set M.le marechal against the course which I have proposed to him, which I am convinced would bring the disorders in our province to an end, stop the occurrence of the many unfortunate events which I am sure you look on with regret, and spare you much trouble and embarrassment." The intendant was much touched by this calm speech, and above all by the confidence which M.d'Aygaliers had shown him, and replied that he had only offered opposition to the plan of pacification because he believed it to be impracticable.

M.d'Aygaliers then warmly pressed him to try it before rejecting it for ever, and in the end M.de Baville withdrew his opposition.
M, d'Aygaliers hastened to the marechal, who finding himself no longer alone in his favourable opinion, made no further delay, but told the baron to call together that very day all the people whom he thought suitable for the required service, and desired that they should be presented to him the next morning before he set out for Nimes.
The next day, instead of the fifty men whom the marachal had thought could be gathered together, d'Aygaliers came to him followed by eighty, who were almost all of good and many of noble family.

The meeting took place, by the wish of the baron, in the courtyard of the episcopal palace.