'Granted: and on condition that all the Huguenots everywhere lay down
their arms, the king will permit them to live quietly in the free
exercise of their religion.'"

"I had been a week at Calvisson," says Cavalier in his Memoirs, "when I
received a letter from M. le Marechal de Villars ordering me to repair to
Nimes, as he wished to see me, the answer to my demands. having arrived.
I obeyed at once, and was very much displeased to find that several of my
demands, and in particular the one relating to the cities of refuge, had
been refused; but M. le marechal assured me that the king's word was
better than twenty cities of refuge, and that after all the trouble we
had given him we should regard it as showing great clemency on his part
that he had granted us the greater part of what we had asked. This
reasoning was not entirely convincing, but as there was no more time for
deliberation, and as I was as anxious for peace as the king himself, I
decided to accept gracefully what was offered."

All the further advantage that Cavalier could obtain from M. de Villars
was that the treaty should bear the date of the day on which it had been
drawn up; in this manner the prisoners who were to be set at liberty in
six weeks gained one week.

M. de Villars wrote at the bottom of the treaty, which was signed the
same day by him and M. de Baville on the part of the king, and by
Cavalier and Daniel Billard on the part of the Protestants, the following
ratification:

"In virtue of the plenary powers which we have received from the king, we
have granted to the Reformers of Languedoc the articles above made known.