You will be pleased, Monseigneur, so to act that it be not said that separation has made you forget your most humble and most obedient subject and sister, Marguerite." We can discover no trace of any reply whatever from Francis I.

According to most of the documentary evidence, uncertainty lasted for three days.

Berquin persisted in his resolution.

"No," he to his friend Bude, who again came to the prison, "I would rather endure death than give my approval, even by silence only to condemnation of the truth." The president of the court went once more to pay him a visit, and asked him if he held to his appeal.

Berquin said, "Yes." court revised its original sentence, and for the penalty of perpetual imprisonment substituted that of the stake.