"More than that," added the marechal, "the impatience of the priests is most ridiculous.

Besides your remonstrances, of which I hope I have now heard the last, I have received numberless letters full of such complaints that it would seem as if the prayers of the Camisards not only grated on the ears of the clergy but flayed them alive.

I should like above everything to find out the writers of these letters, in order to have them flogged; but they have taken good care to put no signatures.
I regard it as a very great impertinence for those who caused these disturbances to grumble and express their disapproval at my efforts to bring them to an end." After this speech, M, de Baville saw there was nothing for him to do but to let things take their course.
The course that they took turned Cavalier's head more and more; for thanks to the injunctions of M.de Villars, all the orders that Cavalier gave were obeyed as if they had been issued by the governor himself.

He had a court like a prince, lieutenants like a general, and secretaries like a statesman.

It was the duty of one secretary to give leave of absence to those Camisards who had business to attend to or who desired to visit their relations.