Note G

It was in this commune, that Victor Amadeus took refuge, a few years subsequent to the persecution we have described, when pursued by the armies of Louis XIV. A remarkable proof of the reliance he placed in the loyalty of his Vaudois subjects, in selecting, as the place of his concealment, the home of one of those very people who had still fresh in their recollection those aggravated barbarities of which he had been the guilty author. Nor was his confidence misplaced, although the revealer would have been richly remunerated for delivering up the royal fugitive. He remained concealed for a fortnight in the cottage of a peasant, till his capital was regained by Prince Eugene; and he rewarded the faithfulness of the mountaineer, by presenting him with — his silver drinking cup!!