[567] Besides Saint-Honorat, there were Saints Aigulph, Hilary, Patrick, Capraise, Vincent, Venantius, and many others. See the very remarkable thesis presented to the Faculty of Letters in Paris by the Abbé Goux, professor at the Petit Séminaire of Toulouse, and entitled, _Lérins au Cinquième Siècle_. Paris, Eugène Belin, 1856. Also the charming volume of MM. Girard and Bareste, _Cannes et ses Environs_. Paris, Garnier, 1859. [568] M. Merimée, _Note d’un Voyage dans le Midi de la France_, p. 256, _et seq._ [569] A flag of truce came from the Duke of Savoy to notify to M. la Mothe-Guérin, governor of the islands, the order to cease firing. “The first person,” replied La Mothe-Guérin, “who has the audacity to come again to me as the bearer of such a message, I shall immediately have hung:”--M. Sardou, work already cited, p. 111. “It was when under fire from the Isles Sainte-Marguerite,” the Duke of Savoy said afterwards, “that I knew better than anywhere else that I was in an enemy’s country.” [570] It is to be remarked that according to the first work which makes mention of the Man with the Iron Mask, the prisoner was conducted to the Isles Sainte-Marguerite, and there confided to Saint-Mars. This is the _Mémoires Secrets pour servir à l’Histoire de Perse_, from which we have reproduced the entire passage in Chapter VI. of the present work (see p. 69, _ante_). [571] The passages of this Journal relating to the prisoner are given in Chapter XIII. of the present work (see pp. 164, 165, _ante_). [572] M. Baudry, _Revue de l’Instruction Publique_, June 25, 1868. [573] Archives of the Ministry of War. [574] Given by Delort, p. 269. [575] This is now placed beyond doubt, and moreover we shall find Matthioly’s name occurring later in the despatches from Louvois to the commandant of the donjon of Pignerol. With respect to the testimony of the Sieur Souchon, which, following M. Loiseleur, we have given in the preceding chapter, it is rather confused in the _Mémoires d’un Voyageur qui se repose_ (vol. ii. pp. 204-210 of Bossange’s edition), and very clear in the work of Father Papon, but with the signification of _the death of the servant_ and not of Matthioly himself. The following is the passage from the _Voyage Littéraire de Provence_ (pp. 148, 149, edition 1780), integrally reproduced: “The person who waited on the prisoner died at the Isle Sainte-Marguerite. The father of the officer of whom I have just spoken (Souchon, seventy-nine years old), who was in certain matters the man of confidence of M. de Saint-Mars, had always told his son that he had taken the dead man from his prison at the hour of midnight, and had carried him on his shoulders to the burial-ground.” [576] We shall refer hereafter to the treatment of Matthioly. [577] Archives of the Ministry of War. [578] Letter given by Delort, p. 284.