Avedick is at first confined in the Prisons of the Arsenal--From Marseilles he is conducted to Mount Saint-Michel--Description of Mount Saint-Michel--Treatment to which Avedick is exposed--His useless Protestations against this Abuse of Force--Universal Emotion excited throughout the East--Complaints of the Divan--Ferriol’s Impudence--Terrible Reprisals practised on the Catholics--False Avedicks--Expedients to which Ferriol is reduced--Inquietude of the Roman Court--Duplicity of Louis XIV.’s Government--Avedick is transferred to the Bastille--Suggestions of which he is the Object--He abjures, and is set at Liberty--He dies at Paris in the Rue Férou--Delusive Document drawn up with Reference to this Death--Share of Responsibility which attaches to each of the Authors of the Abduction 171 CHAPTER XV. Description of Pignerol--Its Past, its Situation--Portrait of Saint-Mars--His Scruples and his Integrity--Fouquet’s Arrival at Pignerol--Brief Account of the Surintendant’s Career--His Error with regard to Louis XIV., whom he betrays--Causes of Fouquet’s Fall--His Arrest--His Trial--His Condemnation--No kind of Obscurity in this Affair 189 CHAPTER XVI. Remark of Fouquet’s Mother--The Prisoner’s Piety--Danger which he escapes at Pignerol--Incessant Supervision over him at La Pérouse, near Pignerol--Excessive Scruples of Saint-Mars--Precautions prescribed by Louvois--Espionage exercised over Fouquet by his Servants and his Confessor--Illnesses of the Prisoner--He devotes himself entirely to Study and to religious Meditations--Works to which he gives himself up--His new Motto--Interest which he continues to take in all his Relations and in Louis XIV.--Saint-Mars’ laconic Answers 208 CHAPTER XVII. Sudden and singular Arrival of Lauzun in Fouquet’s Room--The latter had known him formerly under the Name of the Marquis de Puyguilhem--Lauzun enumerates his Dignities and calls himself the King’s Cousin--Fouquet believes his Visitor mad--Portrait of Lauzun--His Adventures--His Arrival at Pignerol--He continues his Visits to Fouquet--The Stories he tells him--Noble Conduct of Louis XIV. towards Lauzun--Audacious Method employed by the latter to overhear a Conversation between Louis XIV. and Madame de Montespan--Difference between the Conduct of Lauzun and that of Fouquet--Lauzun’s Outbursts against Saint-Mars--Perplexity of the latter--Singular Mode of Surveillance to which he has recourse--Progressive amelioration of the Lot of the two Prisoners--They receive Permission to see each other--Arrival of Fouquet’s Daughter at Pignerol--Misunderstanding between Fouquet and Lauzun--Cause of this Misunderstanding 219 CHAPTER XVIII.