Note 569 — Chapter XXII
Henry Vizetelly translation
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.”