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HENRI JOUIN
On the 7th of September, 1661, as night was falling, a company of / musketeers crossed the drawbridge of the Castle of Angers. Scarcely had / they entered the fortress when these musketeers expelled the garrison. / This was the King's order. A sub-lieutenant commanded these men: it / was d'Artagnan. A prisoner had been confided to him: this was Nicholas / Fouquet. The superintendent's servant, La Vallée, and his physician, / Pecquet, taking pity upon Fouquet, who was the prey of a quartan / fever, obtained leave to share his captivity. The Castle then had shut / within it three prisoners, who were subjected to the most rigorous / treatment. We know by the official account of Fouquet's detention that / the bed in which he had to sleep on the 7th of September "was not of / the cleanest. " Now for the rest, d'Artagnan, and his two officers, / Saint Mars and Saint Leger, maintained an extreme reserve towards their / guests.