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Majesty knows better than any other person the consequences of this act, and he is also aware of how deeply our failure to take the place will prejudice our cause, a failure which must be repaired during the winter. His Majesty desires that you immediately arrest General Bulonde and cause him to
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and surrounded by the French army. The letter stated that the
Huguenots would not be able to hold on to the city for much longer, and by the end of the day, Rossignol had successfully deciphered it. The French returned the letter with the deciphered message and forced the Huguenots to surrender. He
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The basis of the code cracked by
Bazeries was a set of 587 numbers that stood for syllables. There were other variations, and Louis XIV's overseas ministers were sent different code sheets that encrypted not only syllables but also letters and words. To counter
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The "330" and "309" codegroups appeared only once in the correspondence, so it is impossible to confirm what they stand for. Bazeries verified
General Bulonde was disgraced and removed from command, so he reasoned 330 and 309 stood for
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is the most commonly used letter in French, the Cipher typically allocated the most code numbers to writing that vowel. In one nomenclature, 131 out of the 711 code numbers stood for
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be conducted to the fortress of
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syllable, rather than single letters, unlike traditional ciphers. He guessed that a particular sequence of repeated numbers, 124-22-125-46-345, stood for
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army until the summer of 1811. After it fell out of current use, many documents in the French archives were unreadable until it was decoded.
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Rossignol's cryptographic skills became known in 1626, when an encrypted letter was taken from a messenger leaving the city of
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managed to break the cipher around 1893 over a period of three years by realising that each number stood for a
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106:Man in the Iron Mask
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66:, controlled by the
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