 Thus, in October 1681, Saint-Mars, his prisoners and his company of 45 men left Pignerol for Exilles.Marcel Pagnol quotes correspondence concerning the transfer to Exilles between Louvois and Saint-Mars as well as Du Chaunoy, then war administrator in charge of army supplies and buildings.In his letters Louvois explicitly transmitted the order of His Majesty to transfer two prisoners from Pignerol described as "quite important" with Saint-Mars, without mentioning their names and calling them the ""two prisoners from the lower tower"".