Before the commissioners of the Chambre Ardente the magician Lesage had allowed the following remark to escape him: 'If Filastre were captured, they would learn some strange things.' She was taken: she denied everything before the commissioners; but on October 1, 1680, while under torture, she confirmed in the most precise manner the revelations made by the prisoners at the Bastille and Vincennes; and on that very day Louis XIV in terror ordered the sittings of the Chambre Ardente to be suspended. On October 17, 1680, Louvois wrote to La Reynie: 'I have received the letters you have done me the honour to write to me, and the king heard them read with pain.' Louis, then, ordered the closing of the Chambre Ardente, and when on May 19, 1681, the sittings were resumed at the entreaty of La Reynie, the judges were forbidden 'to take any steps in regard to the declarations contained in the reports of the torture and execution of La Filastre.' From that day Louis had no further doubts as to the guilt of his mistress. One more proof was to be furnished him. The name of Mademoiselle Desoeillets, Madame de Montespan's maid, recurs on every page of the proceedings. She was continually going backwards and forwards between her mistress and the sorceresses. The prisoners almost all knew her: they spoke of her in the most positive manner. The girl Monvoisin pointed out her house, where she had been several times. Mademoiselle Desoeillets had a friend named Madame de Villedieu, who frequently visited the sorceresses, but for her own private ends. When La Voisin was arrested, the two friends talked about the incident. 'How can you be easy in mind when you have been so often to the sorceress?' asked Madame de Villedieu. 'The king will not allow me to be arrested.' The remark was voluntarily reported by Madame de Villedieu to the detective Desgrez. And, in fact, when La Reynie on October 22, 1680, wrote to Louvois: 'What has been said in regard to Mademoiselle Desoeillets at the beginning and repeated at the end is so strong that it is impossible to prevent her from being confronted with the people who have spoken about her,' his words fell on deaf ears at Versailles. When Madame de Villedieu was taken to Vincennes, she said: 'It is astonishing that I am being imprisoned when I went only once to La Voisin, while you leave Mademoiselle Desoeillets at liberty, who has been there more than fifty times.' Louvois at last decided to order Mademoiselle Desoeillets to appear, not before the judges, but before himself in his private room. On November 18, 1680, he wrote to La Reynie:--