Sedan, Cinq-Mars, and the Duke of Bouillon were only mentioned in a separate instrument.
The king was then at Narbonne, on his way to his army, which was besieging Perpignan.

The grand equerry was with him.

Fontrailles went to call upon him.

"I do not intend to be seen by anybody," said he, "but to make speedily for England, as I do not think I am strong enough to undergo the torture the cardinal might put me to in his own room on the least suspicion." On the 21st of April, the cardinal was dangerously ill, and the king left him at Narbonne a prey to violent fever, with an abscess on the arm which prevented him from writing, whilst Cinq-Mars, ever present and ever at work, was doing his best to insinuate into his master's mind suspicion of the minister, and the hopes founded upon his disgrace or death.

The king listened, as he subsequently avowed, in order to discover his favorite's wicked thoughts and make him tell all he had in his heart.