Note 4 — Front matter
Reading edition
This is Jal's conclusion. While compiling his famous Dictionnaire critique de Biographie et d'Histoire, he made an exhaustive search of the registers of all the old parishes of Paris—there were sixty-eight—but failed to discover either the acte de naissance of Armande or the death certificate of Joseph Béjart, which two events must have taken place within a few days of each other.