Note 607 — Chapter XXIII
Henry Vizetelly translation
January 11, 1694, Barbézieux writes to Saint-Mars: “The Sieur de Laprade, to whom the King has confided the care of the prisoners who are confined by his Majesty’s orders in the donjon of Pignerol, writes me word that the one who has been imprisoned longest is dead, and that he does not know his name. As I have no doubt but that you remember it, I beg you to inform me of it in cipher.” The oldest prisoner was Eustache d’Auger, who was confined, as we have seen, in 1669. Anyhow it could not be Matthioly, since we have given a few pages back a despatch from Laprade, December 27, 1693, in which he mentions his name in reference to what he had written on the lining of his coat. Now Laprade would never have asked in January, 1694, the name of a prisoner whom he knew in December, 1693.