This journal is divided into two parts, each forming a volume. The first has for title: “List of prisoners who are sent by the King’s order to the Bastille, to commence from Wednesday the eleventh of the month of October, when I am entered into the office of Lieutenant of the King, in the year 1690,” and at the back of folio 37 we have word for word what follows:-- “On thursday 18th September 1698, at 3 o’clock of the afternoon, Monsieur de St.-Mars governor of the château of the bastille has arrived to enter upon his functions coming from his government of the isles St.-Marguerite honorat having brought with him in his litter an old prisoner whom he had at pignerol whom he always kept masked [and] whose name was not mentioned and having had him placed on leaving the litter in the first chamber of the tower of the bassinnière until the night in order to place him and conduct him myself at 9 o’clock of the evening with M. de rosarges one of the sergeants whom monsieur the governor had brought into the third chamber south of the tower of the Bretaudière[286] which I had had furnished with everything some days before his arrival having received Monsieur de St.-Mars’ order for it which prisoner will be subject to and served by Mr. de rosarge and provisioned by monsieur the Governor.” The second part, of which the title is, “List of prisoners who left the Bastille, to commence from the eleventh of the month of October, when I am entered into possession in the year 1690,” contains, at the back of folio 80, what follows:-- “On the same day monday 19th november 1703----the unknown prisoner always masked with a mask of black velvet whom Monsieur de St.-Mars governor had brought with him on coming from the isles St.-Marguerite whom he had guarded since a long time [and] who having found himself yesterday rather ill on leaving mass died to-day at ten o’clock at night without having had any great illness he could not have had less. M. Giraut our chaplain confessed him yesterday [but] surprised by his death he has not received the sacraments and our chaplain exhorted him a moment before dying and this unknown prisoner so long detained was interred on tuesday 20th november at four o’clock of the afternoon in the cemetery of St-Paul our parish on the register of deaths [**symbol] was also given a name unknown to monsieur de rosarges major and Mr. Reil surgeon who have signed the register. “[**symbol] I have since learnt that he was named on the register M. de Marchiel [and] that 40 l. were paid for his burial.”[287]