CHAPTER XV.

Description of Pignerol--Its Past, its Situation--Portrait of Saint-Mars--His Scruples and his Integrity--Fouquet’s Arrival at Pignerol--Brief Account of the Surintendant’s Career--His Error with regard to Louis XIV., whom he betrays--Causes of Fouquet’s Fall--His Arrest--His Trial--His Condemnation--No kind of Obscurity in this Affair 189