Catinat was placed in a cell apart, and could be, heard cursing and complaining all night through.  Ravanel, Villas, and Jonquet were confined together, and passed the night singing and praying.

The next day, the 22nd April, 1705, they were taken from the prison and drawn to the place of execution in two carts, being unable to walk, on account of the severe torture to which they had been subjected, and which had crushed the bones of their legs.  A single pile of wood had been prepared for Catinat and Ravanel, who were to be burnt together; they were in one cart, and Villas and Jonquet, for whom two wheels had been prepared, were in the other.

The first operation was to bind Catinat and Ravanel back to back to the same stake, care being taken to place Catinat with his face to windward, so that his agony might last longer, and then the pile was lit under Ravanel.

As had been foreseen, this precaution gave great pleasure to those people who took delight in witnessing executions.  The wind being rather high, blew the flames away from Catinat, so that at first the fire burnt his legs only—­a circumstance which, the author of the History of the Camisards tells us, aroused Catinat’s impatience.  Ravanel, however, bore everything to the end with the greatest heroism, only pausing in his singing to address words of encouragement to his companion in suffering, whom he could not see, but whose groans and curses he could hear; he would then return to his psalms, which he continued to sing until his voice was stifled in the flames.  Just as he expired, Jonquet was removed from the wheel, and carried, his broken limbs dangling, to the burning pile, on which he was thrown.  From the midst of the flames his voice was heard saying, “Courage, Catinat; we shall soon meet in heaven.”  A few moments later, the stake, being burnt through at the base, broke, and Catinat falling into the flames, was quickly suffocated.  That this accident had not been forseen and prevented by proper precautions caused great displeasure to spectators who found that the three-quarter of an hour which the spectacle had lasted was much too brief a time.

Villas lived three hours longer on his wheel, and expired without having uttered a single complaint.

Two days later, there was another trial, at which six persons were condemned to death and one to the galleys; these were the two Alisons, in whose house Villas, Ravanel, and Jonquet had been found; Alegre, who was accused of having concealed Catinat, and of having been the Camisard treasurer; Rougier, an armourer who was found guilty of having repaired the muskets of the rebels; Jean Lauze, an innkeeper who had prepared meals for Ravanel; La Jeunesse, a preacher, convicted of having preached sermons and sung psalms; and young Delacroix, brother-in-law to one of the Alisons.  The first three were condemned to be broken on the wheel, their houses demolished, and their goods confiscated.  The next three were to be hanged.  Jean Delacroix, partly because of his youth, but more because of the revelations he made, was only sent to the galleys.  Several years later he was liberated and returned to Arles, and was carried off by the plague in 1720.