As he was about to be led to execution, Abbe Tremondy, the cure of Notre-Dame, and Abbe Plomet, canon of the cathedral, came to his cell to make a last effort to convert him, but he refused to speak.

They therefore went on before, and awaited him on the scaffold.

There they appeared to inspire Castanet with more horror than the instruments of torture, and while he addressed the executioner as "brother," he called out to the priests, "Go away out of my sight, imps from the bottomless pit! What are you doing here, you accursed tempters?
I will die in the religion in which I was born.
Leave me alone, ye hypocrites, leave me alone!" But the two abbes were unmoved, and Castanet expired cursing, not the executioner but the two priests, whose presence during his death-agony disturbed his soul, turning it away from things which should have filled it.
Valette was sentenced to be hanged, and was executed on the same day as Castanet.
In spite of the admissions wrung from Castanet in March, nearly a month passed without any sign of fresh intrigues or any attempt at rebellion.
But on the 17th of April, about seven o'clock in the evening, M.de Baville received intelligence that several Camisards had lately returned from abroad, and were in hiding somewhere, though their retreat was not known.

This information was laid before the Duke of Berwick, and he and M.de Baville ordered certain houses to be searched, whose owners were in their opinion likely to have given refuge to the malcontents.

At midnight all the forces which they could collect were divided into twelve detachments, composed of archers and soldiers, and at the head of each detachment was placed a man that could be depended upon.