[266] Letter from Ferriol to Pontchartrain, December 17, 1705. [267] Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 41. [268] Unpublished despatch from Ferriol to Cardinal de Janson, September 16, 1705. [269] Despatch of February 25, 1706. [270] Unpublished letter from Ferriol to Pontchartrain, February 2, 1708. “I have examined myself attentively, and if any one has urged me to a violent resolution against Avedick, I should say that it was Father Hyacinthe alone, who every day exaggerated to me his wickedness and crimes:”--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 45. [271] Despatches from Ferriol to Louis XIV., May 6 and June 1, 1706, already given by the Chevalier de Taulès, with six others which we shall indicate when we have to make use of them. [272] Memorandum of the Marquis de Bonnac, French ambassador to Turkey in 1724:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [273] Letters from Ferriol to Pontchartrain, May 6, and to Louis XIV., June 1, 1706. [274] Unpublished letter from Ferriol to Ponchartrain, February 19, 1707:--Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Turkey, 45. [275] Royer by name. All these details are taken from the unpublished despatch already quoted. Royer placed Justimany under the protection of France with the view of preventing him from being molested in the event of his treason being discovered. [276] Letter from Ferriol to Louis XIV., June 1, 1706. Letter from Louis XIV., November 10, 1706. _Correspondance Administrative du Règne de Louis XIV._, vol. iv. p. 255, collected by M. Depping and finished with much care by his son, M. Guillaume Depping, of the Bibliothèque Impériale. In this work several despatches relating to Avedick are given, of which we shall continue to indicate the source as we make use of them. It is by means of these despatches, and of the unpublished ones from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that we are enabled to relate the Patriarch’s end, even to the smallest details. CHAPTER XIII. The Chevalier de Taulès--How he was led to believe that Avedick was the Man with the Iron Mask--A clear Proof furnished him of the impossibility of his Theory--Taulès persists and accuses the Jesuit Fathers of Forgery--Examination of Dujonca’s Journal--Its complete Authenticity and the unaffected Sincerity of the Writer cannot be doubted--New Proofs of this Authenticity and of Dujonca’s Exactitude. “I have discovered the Man with the Iron Mask, and it is my duty to render an account to Europe and to posterity of my discovery,” exclaims the Chevalier de Taulès,[277] with a conviction which posterity does not share, and a solemnity of manner so little justified by results, that an extreme reserve is imposed on those who venture after him to engage in a pursuit so fruitful in checks.