If they cannot conform to our religion, why do they not worship God in their own way at home?
No one will disturb them as long as they don't insist on public worship." "At first that was all they wanted, monseigneur; and I am convinced that if people had not been dragged to confession and communion by force, it would have been easy to keep them in that submissive frame of mind from which they were only driven by despair; but at present they say that it is not enough to pray at home, they want to be married, to have their children baptised and instructed, and to die and be buried according to the ordinances of their own faith." "Where may you have seen anyone who was ever made to communicate by force ?" asked Chamillard.
D'Aygaliers looked at the minister in surprise, thinking he spoke in joke; but seeing he was quite serious, he answered: "Alas, monseigneur, my late father and my mother, who is still living, are both instances of people subjected to this indignity." "Are you, then, not a Catholic ?" asked Chamillard.
"No, monseigneur," replied d'Aygaliers.
"Then how did you manage to return to France ?" "To speak the truth, sir, I only came back to help my mother to escape; but she never could make up her mind to leave France, as such a step was surrounded by many difficulties which she feared she could never surmount.

So she asked my other relations to persuade me to remain.
I yielded to their importunities on condition that they would never interfere with my beliefs.

To accomplish this end they got a priest with whom they were intimate to say that I had changed my views once more, and I did not contradict the report.

It was a great sin on my part, and I deeply repent it.

I must add, however, that whenever anyone has asked me the question your Excellency asked me just now I have always given the same reply." The minister did not seem to take the baron's frankness in bad part; only he remarked, when dismissing him, that he hoped he would find out some way of ridding the kingdom of those who refused to think in religious matters as His Majesty commanded.
D'Aygaliers replied that it was a problem to which he had given much thought, but without ever being able to find a solution, but that he would think about it more earnestly in future.