tower, where he remained
until the evening. At nine o'clock p.m. I took him to the third room of
the Bertaudiere tower, which I had had already furnished before his
arrival with all needful articles, having received orders to do so from
M. de Saint-Mars. While I was showing him the way to his room, I was
accompanied by M. Rosarges, who had also arrived along with M. de
Saint-Mars, and whose office it was to wait on the said prisoner, whose
table is to be supplied by the governor."

Du Jonca's diary records the death of the prisoner in the following
terms:--

"Monday, 19th November 1703. The unknown prisoner, who always wore a
black velvet mask, and whom M. de Saint-Mars brought with him from the
Iles Sainte-Marguerite, and whom he had so long in charge, felt slightly
unwell yesterday on coming back from mass. He died to-day at 10 p.m.
without having a serious illness, indeed it could not have been slighter.
M. Guiraut, our chaplain, confessed him yesterday, but as his death was
quite unexpected he did not receive the last sacraments, although the
chaplain was able to exhort him up to the moment of his death. He was
buried on Tuesday the 20th November at 4 P.M. in the burial-ground of St.
Paul's, our parish church. The funeral expenses amounted to 40 livres."

His name and age were withheld from the priests of the parish. The entry
made in the parish register, which Pere Griffet also gives, is in the
following words:--

"On the 19th November 1703, Marchiali, aged about forty-five, died in the
Bastille, whose body was buried in the graveyard of Saint-Paul's, his
parish, on the 20th instant, in the presence of M. Rosarges and of M.
Reilh, Surgeon-Major of the Bastille.

"(Signed) ROSARGES.
"REILH."

As soon as he was dead everything belonging to him, without exception,
was burned; such as his linen, clothes, bed and bedding, rugs, chairs,
and even the doors of the room he occupied. His service of plate was
melted down, the walls of his room were scoured and whitewashed, the very
floor was renewed, from fear of his having hidden a note under it, or
left some mark by which he could be recognised.

Pere Griffet did not agree with the opinions of either Lagrange-Chancel
or Sainte-Foix, but seemed to incline towards the theory set forth in the
'Memoires de Perse', against which no irrefutable objections had been
advanced.