Whether they included a valet or not, Malzac seems to have been non-
existent by March 1693. Had he possessed a valet, and had he died
in 1694, why should HIS valet have been 'shut up in the vaulted
prison'? This was the fate of the valet of the prisoner who died in
April 1694, and was probably Mattioli.

*M. Funck-Brentano's statement is in Revue Historique, lvi. p. 298.
'Malzac died at the beginning of 1694,' citing Jung, p. 91. Now on
P. 91 M. Jung writes, 'At the beginning of 1694 Saint-Mars had six
prisoners, of whom one, Melzac, dies.' But M. Jung (pp. 269, 270)
later writes, 'It is probable that Melzac died at the end of 1692,
or early in 1693,' and he gives his reasons, which are convincing.
M. Funck-Brentano must have overlooked M. Jung's change of opinion
between his P. 91 and his pp. 269, 270.

Mattioli, certainly, had a valet in December 1693 at Pignerol. He
went to Sainte-Marguerite in March 1694. In April 1694 a prisoner
with a valet died at Sainte-Marguerite. In January 1696 no prisoner
at Sainte-Marguerite had a valet. Therefore, there is a strong
presumption that the 'prisonnier au valet' who died in April 1694
was Mattioli.

After December 1693, when he was still at Pignerol, the name of
Mattioli, freely used before, never occurs in the correspondence.
But we still often hear of 'l'ancien prisonnier,' 'the old
prisoner.' He was, on the face of it, Dauger, by far the oldest
prisoner. In 1688, Saint-Mars, having only one prisoner (Dauger),
calls him merely 'my prisoner.' In 1691, when Saint-Mars had
several prisoners, Barbezieux styles Dauger 'your prisoner of twenty
years' standing.' When, in 1696-1698, Saint-Mars mentions 'mon