[565] Visite aux Îles de Lérins, by the Abbé Alliez, 1840.
[566] Notice sur Cannes et les Îles des Lérins, by M. Sardou. Cannes, Robaudy, 1867.
[567] Besides Saint-Honorat, there were Saints Aigulph, Hilary, Patrick, Capraise, Vincent, Venantius, and many others. See the very remarkable thesis presented to the Faculty of Letters in Paris by the Abbé Goux, professor at the Petit Séminaire of Toulouse, and entitled, Lérins au Cinquième Siècle. Paris, Eugène Belin, 1856. Also the charming volume of MM. Girard and Bareste, Cannes et ses Environs. Paris, Garnier, 1859.
[568] M. Merimée, Note d’un Voyage dans le Midi de la France, p. 256, et seq.
[569] A flag of truce came from the Duke of Savoy to notify to M. la Mothe-Guérin, governor of the islands, the order to cease firing. “The first person,” replied La Mothe-Guérin, “who has the audacity to come again to me as the bearer of such a message, I shall immediately have hung:”—M. Sardou, work already cited, p. 111. “It was when under fire from the Isles Sainte-Marguerite,” the Duke of Savoy said afterwards, “that I knew better than anywhere else that I was in an enemy’s country.”
[570] It is to be remarked that according to the first work which makes mention of the Man with the Iron Mask, the prisoner was conducted to the Isles Sainte-Marguerite, and there confided to Saint-Mars. This is the Mémoires Secrets pour servir à l’Histoire de Perse, from which we have reproduced the entire passage in Chapter VI. of the present work (see p. 69, ante).
[571] The passages of this Journal relating to the prisoner are given in Chapter XIII. of the present work (see pp. 164, 165, ante).
[572] M. Baudry, Revue de l’Instruction Publique, June 25, 1868.
[573] Archives of the Ministry of War.
[574] Given by Delort, p. 269.