The intendant of marines listened to the tale with open ears, and recommended his subordinate to make an open profession of his adhesion to the Romish Church as a first step towards the restitution of his rights.  The soldier was nothing loth to accept this advice, and after being three weeks under the tutelage of the Jesuits, he publicly abjured the Calvinistic creed in the Cathedral of Toulon, on the 10th of June 1699.

In his act of abjuration he took the name of Andre d’Entrevergues, the son of Scipio d’Entrevergues, Sieur de Caille, and of Madame Susanne de Caille, his wife.  He stated that he was twenty-three years of age, and that he did not know how to write.  The falsehood of his story was, therefore, plainly apparent from the beginning.  The eldest son of the Sieur de Caille was called Isaac and not Andre; the soldier took the name of d’Entrevergues, and gave it to the father, while the family name was Brun de Castellane; he called his mother Susanne de Caille, whereas her maiden name was Judith le Gouche.  He said that he was twenty-three years of age, while the real son of the Sieur de Caille ought to have been thirty-five; and he did not know how to write, while numerous documents were in existence signed by the veritable Isaac, who was distinguished for his accomplishments.

News of this abjuration having spread abroad, it reached Sieur de Caille, at Lausanne, who promptly forwarded the certificate of his son’s death, dated February 15, 1696, to M. de Vauvray, who at once caused the soldier to be arrested.  M. d’Infreville, who commanded the troops at Toulon, however, pretended that de Vauvray had no authority to place soldiers under arrest, and the question thus raised was referred from one to another, until it came to the ears of the king.  The following answer was at once sent:—­

“The King approves the action of M. de Vauvray in arresting and in placing in the arsenal the soldier of the company of Ligondes, who calls himself the son of the Sieur de Caille.  His Majesty’s commands are, that he be handed over to the civil authorities, who shall take proceedings against him, and punish him as his imposture deserves, and that the affidavits of the real de Caille shall be sent to them.”

The soldier was accordingly conveyed to the common prison of Toulon, and was subsequently interrogated by the magistrates.  In answer to their inquiries, he said that he had never known his real name; that his father had been in the habit of calling him d’Entrevergues de Rougon de Caille; that he believed he really was twenty-five years old, although two months previously he had stated his age to be twenty-three; that he had never known his godfather or his godmother; that only ten years had elapsed since he left Manosque; that he did not know the name of the street nor the quarter of the town in which his father’s house was situated; that he could not tell the number of rooms it contained; and that even if he were to see