The following is a copy of the form used for these passports: "We, the undersigned, secretary to Brother Cavalier, generalissimo of the Huguenots, permit by this order given by him to absent himself on business for three days.
"(Signed) DUPONT.
"Calvisson, this----" And these safe-conducts were as much respected as if they had been signed "Marechal de Villars." On the 22nd M.de Saint-Pierre arrived from the court, bringing the reply of the king to the proposals which Cavalier had submitted to M.de Lalande.

What this reply was did not transpire; probably it was not in harmony with the pacific intentions of the marechal.

At last, on the 25th, the answer to the demands which Cavalier had made to M.de Villars himself arrived.

The original paper written by the Camisard chief himself had been sent to Louis XIV, and he returned it with notes in his own writing; thus these two hands, to one of which belonged the shepherd's crook and to the other the sceptre, had rested on the same sheet of paper.

The following is the text of the agreement as given by Cavalier in his Memoirs: "THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE REFORMERS OF LANGUEDOC TO THE KING "1.