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Updated: September 10, 2025
Christophe held to his religion all the more because he had suffered for it. "My father will never let me marry a heretic," whispered Babette in his ear. Christophe answered only by tears, which made the young girl silent and thoughtful. Old Lecamus maintained his paternal and magisterial dignity; he observed his son and said little.
De Thou, whose fame is somewhat tarnished by the part he played at this crisis, endeavored to give some hope to the poor father; but he trembled so much himself for the fate of his godson that his attempts at consolation only alarmed the old man still more. Lecamus roamed the streets; in three months he had shrunk visibly.
They were like men turned into ice who could feel no more. 'It is, without doubt, the most extraordinary weather, I said. My teeth chattered like Barbou's. It was all I could do to keep myself steady. No one made any reply; but Lecamus said, 'Have the goodness to open the little postern for foot-passengers: M. le Maire wishes to make an inspection outside.
"If my uncles had only listened to me, that fanatic would have been hanged already." The evening on which this fatal answer was repeated to old Lecamus, by his friend Pare on the place de l'Estape, he returned home half dead to his own chamber, refusing to eat any supper.
"We need ask no more," said the impetuous sailor; "we know him for one of our saints. If the Scotchman had not done the deed he would kill us that infamous Minard." "Yes," said Lecamus, "my life belongs to the church; I shall give it with joy for the triumph of the Reformation, on which I have seriously reflected. I know that what we do is for the happiness of the peoples.
The worthy old Lecamus waited impatiently till the court left Amboise, being unable to find an opportunity to speak to either of the queens, and hoping to put himself in their way as the court advanced along the river-bank on its return to Blois.
A compunction seized my mind: I regretted to have sent that piece of noise and folly to disturb a poor man so suffering and weak. 'Monsieur Lecamus, I said, 'forgive me. I acknowledge that it was inconsiderate. Remain here in comfort, and I will find for this unruly fellow another place of confinement. 'Nay, he said, 'there is my place, pointing to where Madame Dupin sat.
I shall save the king," cried the surgeon, with the sacred enthusiasm of a conviction bestowed by genius, "and God will save France!" A knock was heard on the street door and presently one of Pare's servants gave a paper to Lecamus, who read aloud these terrifying words: "A scaffold is being erected at the convent of the Recollets: the Prince de Conde will be beheaded there to-morrow."
'You have enough on your hands at La Clairière, he said; and then, leaning upon the stones, he began to write again with his pencil. After a time, when he stopped, I ventured to ask 'Monsieur Lecamus, is it, indeed, Those whom we have known, who are in Semur? He turned his dim eyes upon me. 'Does Madame Dupin, he said, 'require to ask? 'No, no. It is true. I have seen and heard.
While we were thus patrolling the city with a special eye to the prevention of all seditious assemblages, such as are too apt to take advantage of any circumstances that may disturb the ordinary life of a city, or throw discredit on its magistrates, we were accosted by Paul Lecamus, a man whom I have always considered as something of a visionary, though his conduct is irreproachable, and his life honourable and industrious.
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