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Lauzun was not caned, because he besought majesty to keep his promise, only imprisoned for ten years in Pignerol, along with banished Fouquet; and a pretty story is Fouquet's too. Out of the window the king's august head was one day thrust, when old Conde was painfully toiling up the steps of the court below.
"About M. Fouquet's house?" "None!" replied Louis. "Ha!" said D'Artagnan, biting his mustache; "I was not mistaken, then; it was monsieur here;" and he pointed to Colbert. "What orders? Let me know," said the king. "Orders to turn the house topsy-turvy, to beat M. Fouquet's servants, to force the drawers, to give over a peaceful house to pillage! Mordioux! these are savage orders!"
D'Artagnan buried his head in his hands, tore at his mustache in sheer vexation, and added, "What can be the reason of M. Fouquet's disgrace? There seem to be three good ones: the first, because M. Colbert doesn't like him; the second, because he wished to fall in love with Mademoiselle de la Valliere; and lastly, because the king likes M. Colbert and loves Mademoiselle de la Valliere.
"Do not stop; you were only going so fast to appear to obey the king's order with zeal. Redouble the speed. He who lives will see!" "That is better. Come!" cried Fouquet; "since they remain stock-still yonder, let us go on." The captain gave the signal, and Fouquet's rowers resumed their task with all the success that could be looked for from men who had rested.
3rd, that the Iron Mask was first heard of immediately after the announcement of the death of Fouquet in 1680; 4th, that there exists no irrefragable proof that Fouquet's death really occurred in the above year. The decree of the Court of justice, dated 20th December 1664, banished Fouquet from the kingdom for life.
The king possessed that extreme sensitiveness of organization, that delicacy of perception, which pierced through and detected the regular order of feelings and sensations, before the actual sensations themselves, and he therefore comprehended that the clerk had, in Fouquet's opinion, been too full of method and order in his arrangements; in other words, that the magnificent fetes of Fontainebleau might have been rendered more magnificent still.
"To ask M. Fouquet for my address?" exclaimed Aramis, opening his eyes in real astonishment. "Yes," said Baisemeaux, greatly disturbed by the glance which the prelate fixed upon him, "at M. Fouquet's certainly." "There is no harm in that, dear M. Baisemeaux, only I would ask, why ask my address of M. Fouquet?" "That I might write to you."
"But what?" replied Vatel. Gourville touched Fouquet's elbow. "Don't be angry, Vatel; I thought my cellar your cellar sufficiently well stocked for us to be able to dispense with recourse to the cellar of L'Image-de-Notre-Dame."
And Gourville held out to the superintendent a note communicated by a certain secretary of the Hotel de Ville, who was one of Fouquet's creatures. "Yes, that is true," murmured the minister; "the scaffold may be prepared, but the king has not signed; Gourville, the king will not sign." "I shall soon know," said Gourville. "How?"
All my revenues were seized, and the French bankers forbidden to serve me; nay, those who had an inclination to assist me were forced to promise they would not. Two of the Abbe Fouquet's bastards were publicly maintained out of my revenues, and no means were left untried to hinder the farmers from relieving me, or my creditors from harassing me with vexatious and expensive lawsuits.
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