After smuggling the real king back into the Bastille, Aramis takes Baisemeaux's release order, tears it in four, and burns it in the lamp. Then the cold logic: “Du moment que je vous le ramène, c’est comme s’il n’était pas sorti.” No paper, no event. Three days of freedom are administratively erased — and Baisemeaux, who watched it all happen, is converted from witness to hostage, because his only proof of innocence is now Aramis's word.

— In our words · Source: The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)