Note 645 — Chapter XXIV
Henry Vizetelly translation
The following is a literal translation of the entry in the Register in question, a facsimile of which forms the frontispiece to the present volume:—
“The 19th Marchialy aged forty-five years or about has died in the bastile, whose body has been buried in the cemetery of st. Paul his parish the 20th of the present [month] in the presence of Monsieur Rosage major of the bastile and Mr. Reglhe surgeon-major of the bastile who have signed.
]“Rosarges.” “Reilhe.”
In La Bastille Dévoilée, a work of doubtful authenticity, as also in the Mélanges d’Histoire et de Littérature of Mr. Quintin Craufurd, who professes to make the statement on the authority of M. Delaunay, the unfortunate governor of the Bastille in the reign of Louis XVI., it is asserted that the prisoner “was buried in a winding-sheet of new linen; and for the most part everything that was found in his chamber was burnt, such as every part of his bed, including the mattresses, his tables, chairs, and other utensils, which were all reduced to powder and to cinders, and thrown into the drains. The rest of the things, such as the silver, copper, and pewter, were melted. This prisoner was lodged in the third chamber of the tower Bertaudière, which room was scraped and filed quite to the stone, and fresh whitewashed from the top to the bottom. The doors and windows were burnt like the rest.”—Trans.