About the same time it also transpired that she had a deposit of two thousand livres in the hands of a grocer in the quarter, named Raguenet; some days later, as the child’s baptism had doubtless been put off for fear of betraying his origin, Pigoreau had him christened at St. Jean en Greve.  She did not invite any of the neighbours to the function, and gave parents’ names of her own choosing at the church.  For godfather she selected the parish sexton, named Paul Marmiou, who gave the child the name of Bernard.  La Pigoreau remained in a confessional during the ceremony, and gave the man ten sou.  The godmother was Jeanne Chevalier, a poor woman of the parish.

The entry in the register was as follows:-

“On the seventh day of March one thousand six hundred and forty-two was baptized Bernard, son of . . . and . . . his godfather being Paul Marmiou, day labourer and servant of this parish, and his godmother Jeanne Chevalier, widow of Pierre Thibou.”

A few days afterwards la Pigoreau put out the child to nurse in the village of Torcy en Brie, with a woman who had been her godmother, whose husband was called Paillard.  She gave out that it was a child of quality which had been entrusted to her, and that she should not hesitate, if such a thing were necessary, to save its life by the loss of one of her own children.  The nurse did not keep it long, because she fell ill; la Pigoreau went to fetch the child away, lamenting this accident, and further saying that she regretted it all the more, as the nurse would have earned enough to make her comfortable for the rest of her life.  She put the infant out again in the same village, with the widow of a peasant named Marc Peguin.  The monthly wage was regularly paid, and the child brought up as one of rank.  La Pigoreau further told the woman that it was the son of a great nobleman, and would later make the fortunes of those who served him.  An elderly man, whom the people supposed to be the child’s father, but who Pigoreau assured them was her brother-in-law, often came to see him.

When the child was eighteen months old, la Pigoreau took him away and weaned him.  Of the two by her husband the elder was called Antoine, the second would have been called Henri if he had lived; but he was born on the 9th of August 1639, after the death of his father, who was killed in June of the same year, and died shortly after his birth.  La Pigoreau thought fit to give the name and condition of this second son to the stranger, and thus bury for ever the secret of his birth.  With this end in view, she left the quarter where she lived, and removed to conceal herself in another parish where she was not known.  The child was brought up under the name and style of Henri, second son of la Pigoreau, till he was two and a half years of age; but at this time, whether she was not engaged to keep it any longer, or whether she had spent the two thousand livres deposited with the grocer Raguenet, and could get no more from the principals, she determined to get rid of it.