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Updated: May 11, 2025
The Abbe Fouquet, at the clatter of hoofs on the pavement, appeared at a window of the court, and before even the cavalier had set foot to the ground, "Well! Danicamp?" cried he, leaning half out of the window. "Well, it is all over," replied the cavalier. "All over!" cried the abbe. "Then they are saved?" "No, monsieur," replied the cavalier, "they are hung."
"Very well, monsieur, we have nothing else to ask of you," said the abbe, more and more dejected, in proportion as the moment approached for finding himself alone with his brother. "Have you been paid?" asked Gourville. "Partly, monsieur," replied Danicamp. "Here are twenty pistols. Begone, monsieur, and never forget to defend, as this time has been done, the true interests of the king."
Danicamp appeared. "Make your report," said Gourville. "Monsieur," replied the messenger, "we received orders to carry off the prisoners, and to cry 'Vive Colbert! whilst carrying them off." "To burn them alive, was it not, abbe?" interrupted Gourville. "Yes, yes, the order was given to Menneville. Menneville knew what was to be done, and Menneville is dead."
"The prisoners," cried Danicamp, "were brought to the Greve, and the people, in a fury, insisted upon their being burnt instead of being hung." "And the people were right," said the abbe. "Go on."
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