CHAPTER XIV.

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