By degrees, though, poor Mattioli’s importance began to decrease with years and the world’s forgetfulness of the events that had so stirred France and Italy all those years before 1679; by 1701, twenty-two dreadful years after his arrest by Catinat at Pinerolo, he had fallen from his high estate of mystery, and we find him torn out of his seclusion from the common herd of malefactors, and put to share a cell with a miserable rascal imprisoned for various offences against the common law—one Tirmont, who died insane, seven years later, in the Bicêtre. And on April 30, 1701, there was added to these two yet a third prisoner, Maranville by name; the three remained together thus until the December of that year, when Tirmont was removed to Bicêtre. The two remaining years of Mattioli’s life were spent with Maranville; one can only hope the latter was able to console him a little and to soften his last moments on earth with some particle of companionship. And now comes the last of him; as noted in Du Junca’s handwriting in the prison register on November 19, 1703: “The same day, Monday, 19th of November, 1703, the prisoner unknown, masked always with a mask of black velvet, whom M. de Saint-Mars, the governor, brought with him from the Isles of Sainte-Marguerite, and whom he had had for a long time, happening to be rather unwell yesterday on coming from Mass, died this day at about ten o’clock in the evening, without having had any serious illness; indeed, it could not have been slighter. M. Giraut, our chaplain, confessed him yesterday. Surprised by death, he did not receive the Sacraments, and our chaplain exhorted him for a moment before he died. And this unknown prisoner, confined for so long a time, was buried on Tuesday at four in the afternoon, in the cemetery of Saint Paul, our parish; on the register of burial he was given a name also unknown. M. de Rosarges, major, and Arreil, surgeon, signed the register.” At the lower left-hand side of this entry in Du Junca’s prison-registry there is a note to the effect that: “I have since learned that he was named on the register M. de Marchiel, and that the burial cost forty livres.” As a matter of fact, the entry in the registry of Saint Paul’s runs as follows: “On the 19th (November, 1703) Marchioly, aged forty-five or thereabouts, died in the Bastile, whose body was buried in the cemetery of Saint Paul, his parish, the 20th of this month in the presence of M. Rosage (_sic_), major of the Bastile, and of M. Reglhe (_sic_), surgeon-major of the Bastile, who signed: “Signed: Rosarges, Reilhe.”