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- At eighteen years of age, Bartholomew entered the army, where his
intelligence and fidelity soon won him the confidence of the King,
Louis XIV, who promoted him at an early age to be an officer in his
household guard. He so far trusted and honoured him as often to select
him to perform duties so important as to require his own signature to
some of the orders. One of these papers was the means of saving this
officer and his wife from arrest and most probably from death. But a
short time before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he married a
Countess, Susannah Lavillon, and retired to his villa for a short
respite from his military duties.
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