7/107 Little cared they for the fate of the Reformers. "This castaway of the regency," says M.Lemontey, "was adopted without memorial, without examination, as an act of homage to the late king, and a simple executive formula. afterwards found the minute of the declaration of 1724, without any preliminary report, and simply bearing on the margin the date of the old edicts." For aiming the thunderbolts against the Protestants, Tressan addressed himself to their most terrible executioner. Lamoignon de Baville was still alive; old and almost at death's door as he was, he devoted the last days of his life to drawing up for the superintendents some private instructions; an able and a cruel monument of his past experience and his persistent animosity. |