[1] _Estat de Prisonnies qui sont envoies par l’Ordre du Roy à la Bastille, à commenser du mescredy honsiesme du mois d’Octobre que je suis entré en possession de la charge de Lieutenant du Roy, en l’année 1690_, by Dujonca, fol. 37, verso:--Archives of the Arsenal. Letter from Barbézieux, Minister of War, to Saint-Mars, dated July 19, 1698:--“You can write in advance to His Majesty’s lieutenant of this château to have a chamber ready to receive this prisoner on your arrival.”--Unpublished despatch from the Archives of the Ministry of War. Traditions collected at Villeneuve-le-Roi. Registers of the Secretary’s Office of the King’s Household. [2] _Estat de Prisonnies qui sortet de la Bastille à commenser de honsiesme du mois d’Octobre que je suis entré en possession, en l’année 1690_, by Dujonca, fol. 80, verso:--Archives of the Arsenal. _Registre des Baptêmes, Mariages, et Sépultures de la Paroisse de Saint-Paul_, s. 1703-1705, vol. ii. No. 166:--Archives of the Hôtel de Ville. Registers of the Secretary’s Office of the King’s Household. Imperial Archives. [3] _Souvenirs de la Duchesse d’Abrantès_, recueillis par M. Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob). [4] I am indebted for this information to the kindness of M. Guizot. [5] Especially Louis XVIII., whose language is in complete disaccord with that of Louis XV. But I shall refer to this point of debate hereafter. [6] Voltaire, Prosper Marchand, Baron de Crunyngen, Armand de la Chapelle, Chevalier de Mouhy, Duke de Nivernais, La Beaumelle, Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Lagrange-Chancel, Fréron, Saint-Foix, Father Griffet, Hume, De Palteau, Sandraz de Courtilz, Constantin de Renneville, Baron d’Heiss, Sénac de Meilhan, De la Borde, Soulavie, Linguet, Marquis de Luchet, Anquetil, Father Papon, Malesherbes, Dulaure, Chevalier de Taulès, Chevalier de Cubières, Carra, Louis Dutens, Abbé Barthélemy, Quintin Craufurd, De Saint Mihiel, Bouche, Champfort, Millin, Spittler, Roux-Fazillac, Regnault-Warin, Weiss, Delort, George Agar Ellis, Gibbon, Auguste Billiard, Dufay, Bibliophile Jacob, Paul Lecointre, Letoumeur, Jules Loiseleur, De Bellecombe, Mérimée, Sardou; without counting the writers of general history, such as S. Sismondi, Henri Martin, Michelet, Camille Rousset, Depping, and all who have written articles on this question in cyclopædias. [7] _Histoire de France_, vol. xii. p. 435. [8] _Art de Vérifier les Dates_, vol. vi. p. 292. [9] _Histoire de France_, vol. xiv. p. 564. [10] Voltaire, _Siècle de Louis XIV._, p. 289. [11] M. de Taulès, for instance, a partisan of the theory which makes Avedick, the patriarch of Constantinople, the Man with the Iron Mask, and to which I shall refer in the after-part of this book.