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. He concluded by saying that before arriving at any decision as
to who the prisoner really was, it would be necessary to ascertain the
exact date of his arrival at Pignerol.

Sainte-Foix hastened to reply, upholding the soundness of the views he
had advanced. He procured from Arras a copy of an entry in the registers
of the Cathedral Chapter, stating that Louis XIV had written with his own
hand to the said Chapter that they were to admit to burial the body of
the Comte de Vermandois, who had died in the city of Courtrai; that he