[
  {
    "id": "valet_1669",
    "name": "The valet delivered by Vauroy in August 1669 ('Eustache Dauger' / 'Danger' / 'd'Angers')",
    "proponents": "Lair 1890; Lang 1903; Laloy 1913; Mongrédien 1952; Petitfils 1970 and 2003; Noone 1988; Sonnino 2016; Wilkinson 2021",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "pass", "note": "By construction: Louvois 19 July 1669, Saint-Mars 21 August 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "pass", "note": "Louvois 30 January and 2 March 1675 on 'le prisonnier que le sieur de Vauroy vous a conduit'."},
      "c": {"status": "pass", "note": "Louvois 8 April 1680 names 'Eustache' and La Rivière as the two to be shut up together."},
      "d": {"status": "pass", "note": "The 'two of the lower tower' went to Exilles; Mattioli stayed (Saint-Mars 25 June 1681)."},
      "e": {"status": "open", "note": "No letter names the man who died at Exilles in January 1687. The survivor is the 1669 prisoner if Barbezieux's 'depuis vingt ans' (1691) is read as a round figure for twenty-two years and 'ce qu'a fait vostre ancien prisonnier' (1697) as a reference to a man who had done something; La Rivière was never described in those terms. Mongrédien 1952, pp. 196-197, drew this conclusion from the same letters."},
      "f": {"status": "pass", "note": "Barbezieux 15/17 June and 19 July 1698 'vostre ancien prisonnier'; du Junca 18 September 1698 'un ensien prisonnier qu'il avet à Pignerol'."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "Register age 45 'ou environ' would make him about 11 in 1669; the age was supplied by the Bastille staff, who did not know him, and the same register received a false name. Weak test."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 19 July 1669; Louvois 8 April 1680; Saint-Mars 25 June 1681; Barbezieux 13 August 1691 and 17 November 1697; du Junca 1698 and 1703."
  },
  {
    "id": "la_riviere",
    "name": "La Rivière, Fouquet's valet",
    "proponents": "No author names him as the 1703 prisoner; he is the only documented alternative for the 1687 survivor.",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "He was Fouquet's servant at Pignerol before 1669; not the man Vauroy delivered."},
      "b": {"status": "na", "note": "He was Fouquet's own valet."},
      "c": {"status": "pass", "note": "Named in Louvois 8 April 1680."},
      "d": {"status": "pass", "note": "One of the two 'merles' taken to Exilles."},
      "e": {"status": "open", "note": "Either he or the 1669 prisoner died in January 1687. Louvois 16 April 1684 asked about his birth and origins, and the man Louvois enquired about as 'hydropique' in 1686 is not named; Barbezieux's 1691 'depuis vingt ans' does not fit a man Saint-Mars acquired with Fouquet (1665) unless read as 26 years, and 'ce qu'a fait' (1697) implies an act, of which nothing is recorded for La Rivière."},
      "f": {"status": "open", "note": "Follows e."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "Birth date unknown."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 8 April 1680; Louvois 16 April 1684; Barbezieux 13 August 1691."
  },
  {
    "id": "mattioli",
    "name": "Count Ercole Antonio Mattioli",
    "proponents": "Heiss 1770; Roux-Fazillac 1801; Delort 1825; Ellis 1826; Topin 1869 and 1883; Funck-Brentano 1894 and 1898",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Arrested 2 May 1679 near Turin; in Mantuan and Venetian service in 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not at Pignerol in 1675."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Held in the donjon with his own valet, not in the lower tower with La Rivière."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Saint-Mars 25 June 1681: 'Matthioli restera ici avec deux autres prisonniers'; Louvois 9 June 1681 orders his clothes carried to Exilles only in case of a future release."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not at Exilles."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Came to the islands from Pignerol only in March or April 1694 and died there before 29 April 1694: Barbezieux 10 May 1694, 'le valet du prisonnier qui est mort' (only Mattioli had a valet)."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "The burial name 'Marchioly' resembles Saint-Mars's habitual spelling 'Marthioly' (Funck-Brentano's strongest point); the age 45 would be 17 years short of his 62 or 63."}
    },
    "decisive": "Saint-Mars 25 June 1681; Barbezieux 10 May 1694; Saint-Paul register 20 November 1703."
  },
  {
    "id": "jacobin",
    "name": "The Jacobin (Dominican monk arrested in 1674)",
    "proponents": "Topin 1883 (as the prisoner of 'twenty years' in 1691); Iung 1873 and Delort 1825 (as the man who died at Exilles in 1687)",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Arrested in 1674."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not at Pignerol in January 1675 when Louvois allowed the Vauroy prisoner to serve Fouquet."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Louvois 8 April 1680 names Eustache and La Rivière as the pair of the lower tower."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c; he stayed in the donjon at Pignerol."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows d. Barbezieux 11/16 January 1694: 'le plus ancien est mort' in the Pignerol donjon, which Lair and Funck-Brentano take to be the Jacobin."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows e."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "Age unknown."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 8 April 1680; Barbezieux January 1694."
  },
  {
    "id": "cavoye",
    "name": "Eustache Dauger de Cavoye",
    "proponents": "Duvivier 1932; Furneaux 1954; Mast 1974; Thompson 1987",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Documented at the prison of Saint-Lazare in Paris on 20 June 1678 and about 1679/1680 (letters printed by Mongrédien, XVIIe siècle 17-18, 1953, pp. 55-58); a lettre de cachet of 17 August 1678 kept him there; Brienne's ode (before 1689) says he died there."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free in Paris until 1668 and at Saint-Lazare from about 1668, not at Pignerol."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "At Saint-Lazare in 1678-1680."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Born 1637: 66 in 1703 against the register's 45."}
    },
    "decisive": "Saint-Lazare letters of 20 June 1678 and c. 1679/80 (Mongrédien 1953); Louis XIV 17 August 1678."
  },
  {
    "id": "bulonde",
    "name": "Lieutenant-général Vivien Labbé de Bulonde",
    "proponents": "Bazeries and Burgaud 1893 (from a deciphered dispatch of 1691)",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "A general officer on active service in 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not a prisoner."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not a prisoner."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not a prisoner."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not a prisoner."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Arrested in 1691 for the failure at Cuneo and released in December 1691 (Dangeau, Journal, t. III, p. 441, 11 December 1691)."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Signed receipts in 1699 and 1705 (Grandmaison, L'Univers, 9 January 1895; Funck-Brentano 1901, p. 111)."}
    },
    "decisive": "Dangeau 11 December 1691; receipts of 1699 and 1705; Batiffol, Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 55 (1894), pp. 359-360."
  },
  {
    "id": "fouquet",
    "name": "Nicolas Fouquet",
    "proponents": "Anonymous pamphlet 1789; Lacroix 1836; Arrèse 1970",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "At Pignerol since January 1665; not delivered by Vauroy."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "He was the master, not the valet."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Died at Pignerol 23 March 1680 (Lair 1890, t. II, pp. 472-474; Louvois 9 April 1680; Visitation register 28 March 1681)."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been 88."}
    },
    "decisive": "Lair 1890, t. II, pp. 472-474."
  },
  {
    "id": "monmouth",
    "name": "James Scott, Duke of Monmouth",
    "proponents": "Saint-Foix 1768",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "At the English court in 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Beheaded on Tower Hill 15 July 1685 (Barrillon's dispatches of June-July 1685, AAE Angleterre 155; Topin 1883, pp. 109-115)."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead; would have been 54."}
    },
    "decisive": "Barrillon's dispatches, June-July 1685."
  },
  {
    "id": "vermandois",
    "name": "Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois",
    "proponents": "Anonymous, Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de Perse, 1745; discussed by Griffet 1769",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Aged two in 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "At court."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "At court."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "At court."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Died at Courtrai in November 1683 and was buried at Arras (d'Humières and Boufflers letters of 7-19 November 1683; Topin 1883, pp. 83-87)."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead; would have been 36."}
    },
    "decisive": "d'Humières and Boufflers, November 1683."
  },
  {
    "id": "beaufort",
    "name": "François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort",
    "proponents": "Lagrange-Chancel 1759; the Provence rumour reported by Saint-Mars 8 January 1688; Desprat 1991; Monteilhet 2003",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Disappeared in the sortie at Candia on 25 June 1669 (Brodart's report of 27 June 1669, Topin ch. X); a grand admiral of France is not 'un valet'."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead or missing."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows a."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows a."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows a."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows a."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been 87."}
    },
    "decisive": "Brodart's report 27 June 1669; Louvois 19 July 1669 ('un valet')."
  },
  {
    "id": "twin",
    "name": "A twin or elder brother of Louis XIV",
    "proponents": "Voltaire 1751 and 1771 (elder brother); Soulavie 1790 (twin); Saint-Mihiel 1790; Dumas 1847; Pagnol 1965 and 1973",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "No document; the 1669 prisoner is 'un valet' fed on a valet's furniture. Birth witnesses of 5 September 1638 (Chavigny 6 September 1638; Louis XIII 9 September 1638; Topin 1883, pp. 58-59) record one child."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "A prince would not have been lent to Fouquet as a valet."},
      "c": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "d": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "e": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "f": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been 65."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 19 July 1669 ('un valet'); the 1675 service to Fouquet; birth records of 1638."
  },
  {
    "id": "la_cloche",
    "name": "James de la Cloche",
    "proponents": "Carey 1904; Barnes 1908; Pagnol",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "The 'James Stuart' of Naples made his will and died there in August 1669 (Kent's dispatches; Laloy 1913, pp. 35-37)."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."}
    },
    "decisive": "Kent's dispatches and the Naples will, 1669."
  },
  {
    "id": "prignani",
    "name": "The abbé Prignani (Pregnani)",
    "proponents": "Barnes 1908",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free in Rome from 1675 to 1678 and died there in 1678 or 1679 (arch. Seine-Inférieure G 6139 f° 85; Laloy 1913, p. 101)."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Free."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."}
    },
    "decisive": "Laloy 1913, p. 101."
  },
  {
    "id": "moliere",
    "name": "Molière",
    "proponents": "Loquin 1883, 1898 and 1900; Diamant-Berger 1971",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Performing in Paris in 1669 (La Grange's register)."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Died 17 February 1673 (La Grange's register, 1876 ed., pp. 107-108, 140; Saint-Eustache burial 21 February 1673, Beffara 1821, p. 16)."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been 81."}
    },
    "decisive": "La Grange's register 1669 and 17 February 1673."
  },
  {
    "id": "avedick",
    "name": "Avedick, Armenian patriarch of Constantinople",
    "proponents": "Taulès 1825",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "In Constantinople until his abduction in 1706 (Topin 1883, pp. 168-170, 197-199)."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "In the Ottoman Empire."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "In the Ottoman Empire."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "In the Ottoman Empire."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "In the Ottoman Empire."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "In the Ottoman Empire."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Alive in France after 1706."}
    },
    "decisive": "Topin 1883, pp. 168-170."
  },
  {
    "id": "guise",
    "name": "Henri II de Guise",
    "proponents": "Bartoli 1977, 1978 and 2012",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Died 2 June 1664 (standard date; not verified here in a primary source)."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."}
    },
    "decisive": "Death in 1664."
  },
  {
    "id": "keroualze",
    "name": "The 'unknown of Provence' of 1669 (Kéroualze)",
    "proponents": "Ravaisson 1879 (Archives de la Bastille, t. X, Avertissement)",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Ravaisson's unknown came 'from Provence'; the 1669 prisoner came from Dunkirk with Vauroy. Laffilard's register records Kéroualze 'tué sur le Monarque' (Ravaisson X, pp. xx-xxiii)."},
      "b": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "c": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "d": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "e": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "f": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been about 56."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 26 March 1670 ('le prisonnier qui vous a été amené par le major de Dunkerque'); Laffilard's register."
  },
  {
    "id": "oldendorf",
    "name": "Louis de Oldendorf, 'chevalier de Kiffenbach' (arrested March 1673)",
    "proponents": "Iung 1873",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Arrested in March 1673 (Louvois 7 April 1673; Iung 1873, p. 374); not at Pignerol in 1669."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "Not the Vauroy prisoner."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Louvois 8 April 1680 names the pair."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Follows c."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "Age unknown."}
    },
    "decisive": "Louvois 8 April 1680; Laloy 1913, pp. 122-127."
  },
  {
    "id": "dartagnan",
    "name": "Charles de Batz de Castelmore, comte d'Artagnan",
    "proponents": "Macdonald 2005",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Captain-lieutenant of the musketeers in 1669; the man who escorted Fouquet to Pignerol in 1665."},
      "b": {"status": "fail", "note": "On active service."},
      "c": {"status": "fail", "note": "Killed at the siege of Maastricht, 25 June 1673."},
      "d": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "e": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "f": {"status": "fail", "note": "Dead."},
      "g": {"status": "fail", "note": "Would have been about 90."}
    },
    "decisive": "His career 1661-1673."
  },
  {
    "id": "martin",
    "name": "Martin, valet of Roux de Marsilly",
    "proponents": "Lang 1903 (The Valet's Tragedy)",
    "results": {
      "a": {"status": "fail", "note": "Croissy (London) 1 July 1669 and Lionne 13 July 1669: Martin declined to come to France and the ministers let the matter drop; the 19 July order was issued six days later for a different man (see notes/E, Part 2)."},
      "b": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "c": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "d": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "e": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "f": {"status": "open", "note": "Only by identification with the valet."},
      "g": {"status": "open", "note": "Age unknown."}
    },
    "decisive": "Croissy 1 July 1669; Lionne 13 July 1669 (Laloy 1913)."
  }
]