On May 2 and 3, 1679, when Matthioly and his valet were incarcerated at Pignerol, this State prison contained, besides Fouquet and Lauzun, four prisoners, incontestably obscure and of very slight importance. One, Eustache d’Auger, brought there August 20, 1669, had for some time acted as Fouquet’s valet.[542] Another, arrived at Pignerol April 7, 1674, was a Jacobin monk; “a finished scoundrel,” wrote Louvois, “who cannot be sufficiently maltreated or made to suffer the punishment he has deserved.” The Minister recommended Saint-Mars “not to give him a fire in his chamber except when great cold or illness obliged it, and not to provide him with any other diet but bread, wine, and water.”[543] Louvois afterwards enjoined Saint-Mars “not to let him be seen by any one, nor to give news of him to any person whatever.” But this order was in some sort a mere form, since a like injunction had been given to Saint-Mars, July 19, 1669, at the time Eustache d’Auger was sent to him.[544] The latter, as well as the Jacobin monk, and Caluzio, brought there in September, 1673,[545] and Dubreuil, imprisoned in June, 1676, were treated in exactly the same manner and without any kind of consideration. The expense for each of them was not to exceed twenty sous a day,[546] and they were so insignificant, that when Saint-Mars was called from the command of the donjon of Pignerol to the government of Exiles, Louvois requested from him “a list of the persons in his charge, begging him to indicate, at the side of each name, what he knew of the reasons for which they had been arrested.”[547] It is certain, and this has never been a matter of doubt to any of those who have occupied themselves with this problem, that the Man with the Iron Mask is not to be sought for amongst these obscure wretches, the causes of whose confinement the Minister himself had forgotten. We have seen that Fouquet, undoubtedly, died at Pignerol during the month of March, 1680; and, with regard to Lauzun, it is not less incontestable that he left the citadel April 22, 1681.