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Updated: May 23, 2025
The superintendent counted; there were eight persons. Pellisson and Gourville walked arm in arm, as if conversing upon vague and frivolous subjects. Sorel and two officers imitated them, in an opposite direction. The Abbe Fouquet walked alone. Fouquet, with M. de Chanost, walked as if entirely absorbed in the conversation of his son-in-law.
La Fontaine in vain endeavored to gain attention to his verses; Sorel wanted to obtain a hearing for his quatrain. He was obliged to retreat before M. le Comte de Chanost whose arm Fouquet had just taken. L'Abbe Fouquet perceived that the poet, absent-minded, as usual, was about to follow the two talkers, and he interposed. La Fontaine seized upon him, and recited his verses.
"Mordieu!" exclaimed the abbe, the first one to speak, "run M. Colbert through the body." "Monseigneur," said Pellisson, "you must speak to his majesty." "The king, my dear Pellisson, himself signed the order for the execution." "Well!" said the Comte de Chanost, "the execution must not take place, then; that is all." "Impossible," said Gourville, "unless we could corrupt the jailers."
The abbe, who was quite innocent of Latin, nodded his head, in cadence, at every roll which La Fontaine impressed upon his body, according to the undulations of the dactyls and spondees. While this was going on, behind the confiture-basins, Fouquet related the event of the day to his son-in-law, M. de Chanost.
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