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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.